§ 63-2. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

Address Grid Map of Prince George County means the grid map, coincident with the Virginia Coordinate Grid System, 1983 datum, maintained in the Geographic Information System (GIS) Office, used to assign property addresses in Prince George County. The grid is a series of north-south and east-west intersecting lines on 500-foot intervals, with arbitrary values ranging from 0 to 25000 (west to east) and 0 to 25000 (north to south).

Address plat means a plat at one inch equals fifty feet scale supplied by a developer for addressing multifamily residential and commercial/industrial buildings.

Addressable structure means any permanent building used for human habitation or gathering or any commercial or industrial structure.

Alley means a right-of-way that provides secondary vehicle and service access to abutting properties that have frontage on one or more streets.

Coordinator means the Coordinator of the Geographic Information System (GIS) Office of the county, or his or her duly authorized agent.

Frontage or service road means a public or private right-of-way adjacent to a public street that is used as access to properties fronting such public streets.

Industrial and commercial structures means structures used for industrial or commercial purposes, including, but not limited to, wholesale, retail or service business activities, research and development activities, manufacturing, processing, warehousing and commercial offices.

Institutional structure means a building or structure which provides for governmental uses or public or private health, educational or recreational uses, such as park buildings or pools, schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, camp buildings and governmental administrative offices.

Master Street Directory of Prince George County means the official master listing of existing street names in Prince George County, with related information.

Office means the Prince George County Geographic Information System (GIS) Office.

Person means any individual, corporation, cooperative, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, private institution, group or agency, or any legal successor, representative, agent or agency thereof.

Premises address means an address assigned to a property prior to construction.

Premises Map of Prince George County means a set of maps at 1:9600 (one inch equals 800 feet) scale, coincident with the county detailed base map, which shows all addressable structures with their primary addresses, all named public and private roads, all major drainageways and waterbodies and all driveways.

Primary access means, in the case of single-family residential properties, the driveway. In all other cases, it means the entrance from the street that accesses the front or primary entrance to the structure.

Primary address means the street address number assigned to an individual primary structure.

Primary entrance means, in the case of single-family residential structures, the front door. For all other structures, it means the main doorway used for access to the structure, as shown on the address plat.

Rural area means an area where, in general, lot sizes are larger than one acre and addressable structures are typically not near the named travelway.

Secondary entrance means, in a residential building, an internal doorway to an apartment or condominium. In a commercial or industrial building, "secondary entrance" means either the doorway into an internal suite or the doorway into an external loading dock or staff or service entry.

Single-owner private access easement means a private access easement serving more than one addressable structure where all such addressable structures are owned by one common owner, e.g. tenant houses on an estate subject to the rural addressing program. Property on a private road which has been subdivided, but on which lots have not been sold, shall not be considered a single-owner private access easement.

Street Name Map of Prince George County means the official Street Name Map of Prince George County, being a one-map set, updated and published annually, which shows the location of all named private and public roads and incorporated area boundaries and which includes a county-wide map at 1:50,000 scale.

Travelway means the public or private right-of-way used for vehicular travel, including parking lots used as access for multifamily residential, commercial or industrial structures.

Urban area means an area where, in general, lots sizes are less than one acre and addressable structures are typically near the named travelway.

(Ord. No. O-07-09, 11-7-2007)

(Ord. No. O-07-09, 11-7-2007)