Subdividers: A subdivider acquires undeveloped acreage, divides the tract into smaller parcels in accordance with government regulations, installs streets and utilities, and sells the parcels to investors or builders.
Developers: A developer, by combining land with a completed structure, advances the process a step further. Developments may include industrial parks, shopping centres, multifamily housing, or single-family residences. The developer is also responsible for financing marketing and sale to the ultimate user.
In planning subdivisions these principles should be observed in road patterns:
- Streets intersections should be at right angles to minimize traffic hazards. Lots with double frontage are uneconomical and undesirable and should be avoided
- Intersections of minor streets with arterial or collector streets should be held to a minimum to avoid hazard and delay
- Dead end streets should be avoided
- Streets jogs with centre-line offsets of less than 125 feet should be avoided
- Corner lots require greater widths than interior lots in order to provide setback of the dwellings from the side street
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