[Ord. 946, 1/14/1999, § 9.10 - 9.83]
1.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following terms shall, for
the purpose of this chapter, have the meaning indicated:
2.
Words in the singular include the plural and those in the plural
include the singular.
3.
Words used in the present tense include the future tense.
4.
Words "person," "subdivider," "owner," and "developer" include a
corporation, incorporated association and a partnership, or other
legal entity, as well as an individual.
5.
The word "building" includes structures and shall be construed as
if followed by the phrase "or part thereof."
6.
The word "watercourse" includes channel, creek, ditch, dry run, spring,
stream and river.
7.
The words, "should" and "may" are permissive; the words "shall,"
"must" and "will" are mandatory and directive.
8.
For words used in this chapter but not defined in this chapter, any definition established in the Borough Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27] shall apply.
9.
ACCESS DRIVE
ALLEY
APPLICANT
APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK
BOROUGH
BOROUGH COUNCIL
BOROUGH PLANNING COMMISSION
BUILDING
BUILDING SETBACK LINE
CARTWAY
CLEAR SIGHT TRIANGLE
COMMISSION
COMMON PARKING AREA
COUNCIL
COUNTY
COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
CROSSWALK
DEVELOPER
DRY BOTTOM WATER STORAGE AREA
DWELLING UNIT
EASEMENT
ENDORSEMENT
ENGINEER
FLOODPLAIN
GRADE
IMPROVEMENTS
IMPROVEMENTS GUARANTEE
LAND DEVELOPMENT
(1)
(a)
(b)
(2)
(3)
LANDOWNER
LOT
LOT AREA
LOT, FLAG
MAINTENANCE GUARANTEE
MARKER
MOBILE HOME
MOBILE HOME LOT
MOBILE HOME PARK
MONUMENT
(1)
(2)
MULTIPLE DWELLING BUILDING
MUNICIPALITY
PLAN, FINAL
PLAN, OFFICIAL
PLAN, PRELIMINARY
PLAN, RECORD
PLAN, SKETCH
PLANNING COMMISSION
PLAT
PUBLIC GROUNDS
RESERVE STRIP
RESUBDIVISION
REVERSE FRONTAGE LOT
RIGHT-OF-WAY
SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM, PUBLIC
SIGHT DISTANCE
SOLID WASTE
STREET
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
STRUCTURE
SUBDIVIDER
SUBDIVISION
SURVEYOR
WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, PUBLIC
WET BOTTOM WATER STORAGE AREA
Other terms or words used herein shall be interpreted or defined
as follows:
A private drive providing vehicular access between a public
or private street and a building parking area and/or loading area
within a land development.
See "service street."
A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has
filed an application for development including his heirs, successors
and assigns.
Every application, whether preliminary or final, required
to be filed and approved prior to start of construction or development.
An area bounded on one side by a street and on the other
three sides by a street, railroad right-of-way, watercourse, unsubdivided
area, or similar feature.
The Borough of Shillington, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Shillington, Berks
County, Pennsylvania.
The Planning Commission of the Borough of Shillington, Berks
County, Pennsylvania.
A structure enclosed within exterior walls or fire walls,
built, erected and framed of component structural parts, designed
for the housing, shelter, enclosure and support of individuals, animals,
or property of any kind.
The line within a property defining the minimum required
distance between any building and a street right-of-way.
The portion of a street right-of-way, paved or unpaved, intended
for vehicular use.
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.
The Planning Commission of the Borough of Shillington, Berks
County, Pennsylvania.
A parking facility other than those provided within the lot
lines of a lot on which one single-family detached dwelling, one single-family
semi-detached dwelling, one townhouse, one two-family detached dwelling,
or one two-family semi-detached dwelling is located.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Shillington, Berks
County, Pennsylvania.
The County of Berks, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Planning Commission of the County of Berks, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
A right-of-way established for public use to facilitate pedestrian
access through a subdivision block.
Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the
permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision
of land or a land development.
A man-made area used to detain surface water and meter the
flow at an acceptable rate.
Any structure, or part thereof, designed to be occupied as
living quarters as a single housekeeping unit.
A right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for limited use
of private land for public or quasi-public purpose, and within which
the owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structure,
but shall have the right to make any other use of the land which is
not inconsistent with the rights of the grantee or this chapter.
The application of the signatures of at least a majority
of the Borough Council and the Borough Seal to the plan.
A licensed professional engineer registered by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
A land area susceptible to being inundated by water from
any source.
The inclination, with the horizontal, of a road, unimproved
land, etc., which is generally expressed by stating the vertical rise
or fall as a percentage of the horizontal distance.
Those physical additions and changes to the land that may
be necessary to produce usable and desirable lots.
Any security which is accepted by the Borough to guarantee
that certain improvements will be made within the subdivision or land
development, including performance bonds, escrow agreements and any
other collateral or surety agreements.
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts
or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings,
whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single nonresidential
building on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or
tenure.
The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially
or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or prospective
occupants by means of, or for the purpose of streets, common areas,
leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
A subdivision of land.
The addition of an accessory building on a lot or lots subordinate
to an existing principal building is excluded from this definition.
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 condition), 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.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise permitted by law and to be used, developed or
built upon as a unit.
The area contained within the property lines of a lot excluding
space within all street rights-of-way.
A lot of irregular shape that has a narrow access strip (not meeting the minimum lot widths requirements of the Borough Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27] and thus too narrow for the construction of a principal building) leading from a street or other right-of-way to a wider portion of the lot which is intended for construction or a principal building and which wider portion complies with the minimum lot width requirements of the Borough Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27].
A guarantee by the developer of the structural integrity
of improvements dedicated to the Borough.
A metal pipe or pin of at least 1/2 inch in diameter and
at least 24 inches in length.
A transportable, single family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more 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.
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.
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so
designated and improved that it contain two or more mobile home lots
for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
A stone or concrete monument with a flat top at least four inches
in diameter or square, containing a copper or brass dowel (1/4-inch
drill hole) and at least 24 inches in length. It is recommended that
the bottom sides or radius be at least two inches greater than the
top, to minimize movements caused by frost.
An iron pin at least 30 inches in length with the bottom encased
in concrete to a minimum depth of eight inches.
A building providing separate dwelling units for three or
more families.
Borough of Shillington, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
A complete and exact subdivision or land development plan
(including all required supplementary data), prepared for official
recording to define property rights and proposed streets and other
improvements.
The comprehensive development plan and/or master plan and/or
future land use plan and/or ultimate right-of-way plan and/or official
map and/or topographical survey and/or other such plans, or portions
thereof, as may have been adopted pursuant to statute.
A tentative subdivision or land development plan (including
all required supplementary data), in lesser detail than a final plan,
showing, among other things, topographical data and approximate proposed
street and lot layout as a basis for consideration prior to preparation
of a final plan.
The copy of the final plan which contains the original endorsements
of the County Planning Commission and the Borough Council and which
is intended to be recorded with the County Recorder of Deeds.
An informal plan indicating salient existing features of
a tract and the general layout of a proposed subdivision or land development.
The Planning Commission of the Borough of Shillington, Berks
County, Pennsylvania.
A map or plan of a subdivision or land development, whether
preliminary or final.
Parks, playgrounds, trails, paths and other recreational
areas; sites for schools, sewage treatment, refuse disposal and other
publicly owned or operated facilities; publicly owned or operated
scenic and historic sites.
A parcel of ground in separate ownership separating a street
from other adjacent properties, or from another street, either proposed
or existing.
Any replatting of land, including changes to recorded subdivision
or land development plans. See also "subdivision."
A lot extending between and having frontage on two generally
parallel streets, excluding service streets, with vehicular access
solely from one street.
The total width of any land reserved or dedicated as a street,
alley, crosswalk or for other public or semi-public purposes.
A sanitary sewage collection system in which sewage is carried
from individual lots by a system of pipes to a central treatment and
disposal plant, generally not confined to one neighborhood.
The required 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. Sight distance measurement shall be made
from a point 3.5 feet above the center line of the road surface to
a point 0.5 feet above the center line of the road surface.
Garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials.
A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way (i.e.,
not limited to the cartway) intended to be used by vehicular traffic
or pedestrians. The word "street" includes street, avenue, boulevard,
road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct and other ways
used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians whether
public or private. Streets are further classified according to the
function they perform.
ARTERIAL STREETA street serving a large volume of comparatively high-speed and long-distance traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETA street which intercepts minor streets to provide a route to give access to community facilities and/or other collector and arterial streets. Generally, streets in industrial and commercial subdivisions shall be considered collector streets.
CUL-DE-SAC STREETA minor street intersecting another street at one end and terminating in a vehicular turnaround at the other end or a minor street which intersects another street at one end, forms a loop and intersects itself. The length of a cul-de-sac street shall be measured from the intersection of street right-of-way line intersected to the center of the turnaround, along the center line of the cul-de-sac street.
HALF (PARTIAL) STREETA street, generally parallel and adjacent to a property line, having a lesser right-of-way width than normally required for improvement and use of the street.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETA minor street parallel and adjacent to an arterial street, but separated from it by a reserve strip, which provides access to abutting properties and control of intersections with the arterial street.
MINOR STREETA street used primarily to provide access to abutting properties or buildings.
SERVICE STREET (ALLEY)A minor right-of-way providing secondary vehicular access to the side or rear of two or more properties.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the
permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision
or a 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, or lease, partition by the court for
distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building,
or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease
of land for agriculture purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres
not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential
dwelling shall be exempted. The term subdivision shall refer, as appropriate
in this chapter, to the process of subdividing land or to the land
proposed to be subdivided. The term subdivision includes resubdivision.
The enumerating of lots shall include as a lot that portion of the
original tract remaining after other lots have been subdivided therefrom.
A licensed surveyor registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A system for supplying and distributing water from a common
source to dwellings and other buildings, but generally not confined
to one neighborhood.
A water storage area in which a permanent water surface is
maintained.
