§ 185-3Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
- ALLEY
- A minor right-of-way, publicly or privately owned, primarily for service access to the back or sides of properties.
- BLOCK
- An area bounded by streets.
- BUILDING SETBACK LINE
- A line within a property designating the minimum distance that must be provided between any building or structure and an adjacent street right-of-way and/or side and rear property lines.
- CARTWAY
- The portion of a street or alley right-of-way which is improved, designated, or intended for vehicular use.
- CLEAR SIGHT TRIANGLE
- An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections defined by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the intersection of the street center lines.
- COMMISSION
- The Duncannon Borough Planning Commission.
- COUNCIL
- The Duncannon Borough Council.
- CROSSWALK
- A publicly or privately owned right-of-way for pedestrian use extending from a street into a block or across a block to another street.
- DEVELOPER
- Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land development.
- DWELLING
- A house, apartment building or other structure used primarily for human habitation. The word "dwelling" shall not include hotels, motels or other structures used for transient residence, nor shall it include mobile homes unless they are specifically included.
- A. — A building or portion thereof designed exclusively for residential occupancy by one family and having cooking facilities.
- B. — A building designed for or occupied exclusively as a residence for only one family.
- C. — A building designed for or occupied exclusively as a residence for two or more families, with separate housekeeping and cooking facilities for each family.
- EASEMENT, UTILITY
- A right-of-way granted for the limited use of land for public or quasi-public purposes.
- ENGINEER
- A registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania designated by the municipality to perform the duties of engineer as herein specified.
- ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS
- The engineering specifications of the Borough regulating the installation of any required improvement or for any facility installed by any owner, subject to public use.
- EROSION
- The removal of surface materials by the action of natural elements.
- EXCAVATION
- Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar material is dug into, cut, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced, relocated or bulldozed. It shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
- A.
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material is placed, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported or moved to a new location above the natural surface of the ground or on top of the stripped surface. It shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
- B.
The difference in elevation between a point on the original ground and a designated point of higher elevation of the final grade.
- C.
The material used to make fill.
- IMPROVEMENTS
- Those physical additions and changes to the land that may be necessary to produce usable and desirable lots.
- LANDOWNER
- The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such option or contract is subject to any conditions), a lessee if he is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner, or other person having a proprietary interest in land shall be deemed to be a landowner for the purpose of this chapter.
- LOT
- A plot or parcel of land which is, or in the future may be, offered for sale, conveyance, transfer or improvement.
- LOT AREA
- The area contained within the property lines of a lot as shown on a subdivision plan, excluding space within any street but including the area of any easement.
- LOT, REVERSE FRONTAGE
- A lot extending between and having frontage on an arterial street and a minor street, and with vehicular access solely from the latter.
- LOT, THROUGH OR DOUBLE FRONTAGE
- A lot with front and rear street frontage.
- MOBILE HOME
- A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, office or place of assembly, contained in one unit, or in two units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.
- MOBILE HOME LOT
- A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single mobile home, which is leased by the park owner to the occupants of the mobile home erected on the lot.
- MOBILE HOME PARK
- A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use, consisting of two or more mobile home lots.
- PLAN, FINAL
- A complete and exact subdivision plan prepared for official recording as required by statute.
- PLAN, PRELIMINARY
- A tentative subdivision plan, in lesser detail than the final plan, indicating the approximate proposed layouts of a subdivision as a basis for consideration prior to preparation of the final plan.
- PLAN, SKETCH
- An informal plan, not necessarily to exact scale, indicating salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of a proposed subdivision.
- PUBLIC NOTICE
- Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
- RESUBDIVISION
- The replotting of a recorded subdivision, in whole or in part, by a redesign of lots, by change of size, area or by street layout.
- RIGHT-OF-WAY, STREET
- A public thoroughfare for vehicular traffic and/or pedestrian traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, land, alley, or however designated.
- RUNOFF
- The surface water discharge or rate of discharge of a given watershed after a fall of rain or snow that does not enter the soil but runs off the surface of the land.
- SEDIMENTATION
- The process by which mineral or organic matter is accumulated or deposited by moving wind, water, or gravity. Once this matter is deposited (or remains suspended in water), it is usually referred to as "sediment."
- SIGHT DISTANCE
- The length of roadway visible to the driver of a passenger vehicle at any given point on the roadway when the view is unobstructed by traffic.
- SLOPE
- The face of an embankment or cut section; any ground whose surface makes an angle with the plane of the horizon. Slopes are usually expressed in a percentage based upon vertical difference in feet per 100 feet of horizontal distance.
- STREETS
- A public right-of-way which affords primary vehicular and pedestrian access to abutting properties, including street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, alley, or however designated.
- A. — A major street or highway with fast or heavy traffic volumes of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for intercommunications among large areas.
- B. — A major street or highway which carries traffic from local streets to arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
- C. — A minor street used primarily for access to abutting properties.
- D. — A street intersecting another street at one end and terminating at the other in a vehicular turnaround.
- E. — A minor street which is parallel and adjacent to limited-access highways or arterial streets and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
- SUBDIVIDER
- The owner or authorized agent of the owner of a lot, tract, or parcel of land to be subdivided for sale or development under the terms of this chapter.
- SUBDIVISION (see "land development.")
- The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, transfer of ownership or building or lot development; provided, however, that the division of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of access, shall be exempted.
- SURFACE DRAINAGE PLAN
- A plan showing all present and proposed grades and facilities for stormwater drainage.
- TOP SOIL
- Surface soils and subsurface soils which presumably are fertile soils and soil material ordinarily rich in organic matter or humus debris. Topsoil is usually found in the uppermost soil layer called the "A horizon."
- UNDEVELOPED LAND
- Any lot, tract or parcel of land which has not been graded or in any other manner prepared for the construction of a building.
- WATERCOURSE
- A natural stream of water, river, brook, creek, or a channel of perceptible extent, with definite bed and banks to confine and conduct continuously or periodically flowing water.
