SD (See Service drain.)
Screenline means a summary of vehicle and people movements across a specified region by vehicle classes and by time periods.
Seattle Standard Plans and Specifications means City of Seattle Standard Plans for Municipal Public Works Construction and City of Seattle Standard Specifications for Road, Bridge, and Municipal Construction.
Service drain means a privately owned and maintained system for collecting, transporting, and disposing of drainage water only. (The abbreviation SD for service drain is used on plans.)
Setback is the required distance between a structure and the lot lines of the lot on which it is located.
Sewer means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and other waste liquids excluding hazardous materials. This includes sanitary sewer, side sewer, and combined sewer.
SDCI is the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections. SDCI is responsible for managing the Land Use code.
Shoring means support system that provides support to an adjacent structure, underground installation, or the sides of an excavation.
Shoulder means the graded area between the roadway edge and the sidewalk (or the slope line where there is no sidewalk) on any street where there are no curbs.
Side sewer means a privately owned system for transporting and disposing of drainage water or sewage. Both service drains and sanitary side sewers are considered “side sewers.” (The abbreviations SD and SSS, for service drain and sanitary side sewer, are used on plans.)
Side sewer permit means a written warrant or license issued by SDCI approving work within the Seattle City limits on all connections of sanitary/storm drain lines.
Sidewalk means, for the purposes of this Manual, a hard surfaced walkway, usually of portland cement concrete, separated from the roadway by a curb, planting strip or roadway shoulder.
Slope line means the line where the graded portion of the roadway from the centerline toward the edge changes to the transition slope required to meet the surface of the abutting private property.
Specifications are written technical descriptions of materials, equipment, construction systems, standards, and workmanship, which, in conjunction with the drawings, detail the requirements for acceptable completion of the work. Specifications include but are not limited to note, schedules, and moments of the drawings.
SSS (See Side sewer.)
Standard plans means the current edition of the City of Seattle Standard Plans for Municipal Construction adopted by the owner. These show frequently recurring components of work that have been standardized for use by various departments within the City of Seattle.
Storm drain means a pipe used for conveying rainwater, subsurface water, condensate cooling water or other similar discharges, but not commercial and industrial wastewater or sewage. Storm drains carry the excessive storm water from the point source and convey it to the nearest natural body of water.
Stormwater means the rainwater as well as water from washing cars, over watering lawns, and other sources.
Steep topography means, for the purpose of this Manual, an area where the difference in elevation between the existing ground and the proposed street grade at the property line is greater than 8 feet.
Street is a right of way that is intended to provide or provides a roadway for general vehicular circulation; is the principal means of vehicular access to abutting properties; and includes space for utilities, sidewalks, pedestrian walkways and drainage. Any such right of way shall be included within this definition, regardless of whether it has been developed or improved or not.
Street, arterial means every street, or portion thereof, designated as an arterial in SMC 11.18.010.
Street, commercial access means a non-arterial street for providing access to commercial and industrial land uses and providing localized traffic circulation.
Street, existing means any street which is not a new street.
Street furniture means fittings and fixtures installed in streets, such as lamp posts, fire hydrants, street signs, and similar municipal structures, at or above grade level. Including benches, litter and recycling receptacles, bike racks, multiple publication newsracks, water fountains, pedestrian scaled lighting and planters.
Street improvement is an improvement in the public right of way, whether above or below the ground surface, such as pavement, sidewalks, or a storm water drainage system, that increase its present or future value.
Street, new means a street proposed to be created through the platting process or by dedication to The City of Seattle as part of a development proposal.
Street, private means a named, private permanent access easement exceeding thirty-two (32) feet in width not dedicated to public use but which provides a roadway at least twenty-four (24) feet wide for internal use within a subdivision or other development, and which includes sidewalks and space for utilities and drainage. A private street shall be treated as a street for the purpose of application of development standards to abutting properties.
Street, residential access means a non-arterial street providing access to residential land uses.
Street tree means a tree planted within a public right of way.
Streetscape is the appearance or view of a street.
Street use permit means the written warrant or license issued by SDOT approving use, work, and construction in the right-of-way within the Seattle City limits.
Structure means anything constructed or erected on the ground or any improvement built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner and affixed to the ground, including fences, walls and signs, but not including poles, flowerbed frames and such minor incidental improvements.
Subbase means the layer(s) of specified or selected material or designated thickness in a pavement structure immediately above the subgrade and below the base course.
Subgrade means to surface of a roadbed upon which the pavement structure and shoulders are constructed.
Substructures are the girders, slab, barrier, and railing attached to the substructure. Substructures do not include endwalls, wingwalls, barrier and railing attached to the wingwalls, and cantilever barriers and railings unless supported by the superstructure. Substructures are the part of the structure below:
- The bottom of the grout pad for the simple and continuous span bearings, or
- The bottom of the girder or bottom slab soffit, or
- Arch skewbacks and construction joints at the top of vertical abutment members or rigid frame piers, and extending:
a. From the back of pavement seat at one end to the back of pavement seat when the endwalls are attached to the superstructure, or b. From the expansion joint at the end pier to the expansion joint at the other end pier when the endwalls are not attached to the superstructure.
Std Spec 1-01.3 definition is the part of a Structure below:
- The bottom of the grout pad for the simple and continuous span bearings, or
- The bottom of the girder or bottom slab soffit, or
- Arch skewbacks and construction joints at the top of vertical abutment members or rigid frame piers.
Substructures include endwalls, wingwalls, barrier and railing attached to the wingwalls, and cantilever barriers and railings.
Surety bonds means the approved form of security, furnished by the Contractor and the Contractor’s Surety, guaranteeing completion of the Work and payment to persons supplying labor and materials in the prosecution of the Work, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Contract.
Surface course means the top layer of the pavement structure designed to accommodate the traffic load and resist skidding, traffic abrasion, and the disintegrating effects of climate; sometimes called “wearing course”.
Survey means the locating and monumenting in accordance with sound principles of land surveying by or under the supervision of a licensed land surveyor, of points or lines which define the exterior boundary or boundaries common to two or more ownerships or which reestablish or restore general land office corners.
Survey point/monument means the physical structure, along with any references or accessories thereto, used to mark the location of a land boundary survey corner, geodetic control point, or local control point.
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