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Marginal access street. A street, generally paralleling and contiguous to a main thoroughfare designed, primarily, to promote safety by providing free access to adjoining property and limited access to the main thoroughfare. Minor street. A street primarily designed to provide access to abutting properties or lots within a subdivision but may also connect with streets in adjoining subdivisions. Planning commission. The planning commission of the city° Public street. An existing street or platted street dedicated for the use of the general public, graded and paved or to be graded and paved in order that every person has the right to pass and use it at all times, for all normal purposes of travel, transportation or parking to which it is adopted and devoted. Street. A strip of land or way subject to vehicular traffic (which may also serve in part as a way for. pedestrian traffic) and providing direct or indirect access to property, including but not limited to roads, lanes, drivest trails, courts, places, terraces, alleys, avenuesr highways, boulevards or any other thoroughfare° Street width. The shortest distance between the lines %;hich delineate the right-of-%~ay of a street. subdivision. The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more lots or parcels for the purpose~ whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or of building developmentf including all changes in existing street or lot lines and any new streets; provided, howevert that divisions of land into parcels of three (3) acres or more not involving any new street or easement shall not be deemed a subdivision; and further, provided that any subdivision to which the city or the Commonwealth of Virginia is a party shall not be deemed a subdivision. Subdivision~ minor. The division of a parcel of land into not more than three (3) lots fronting on an existing street and not involving any new street or the extension, modification or widening of any existing street, street facilities, or Utilities° 2o This ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.