For the purpose of this article, certain terms and words are herein
defined:
ADMINISTRATOR
The person qualified and officially appointed by the Board
of Commissioners to manage this article or his authorized representative.
APPLICANT
Any landowner or agent of a landowner who proposes to make
or cause to be made any excavation, fill or any combination thereof
pursuant to the provisions of this article.
ARCHITECT
A registered architect licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
BEDROCK
Natural rock layer, hard or soft, in place at ground surface
or beneath unconsolidated surficial deposits.
BUFFER ZONE
An area of land which may include natural or artificial land
forms, shrubs, bushes, trees, grass or other landscaping material
in order to provide a compact, year-round visual screen and protection
for adjacent properties.
BUILDING CODE
Robinson Township Ordinance No. 10-1987, as amended.
EARTH MATERIAL
Any rock, sand, gravel, natural soil or other similar material.
ENGINEER
A registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and knowledgeable in civil engineering.
ENGINEERING GEOLOGIST
A person who holds a degree in geology from an accredited
college or university and who has training and experience in the field
of engineering geology.
EROSION
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by
water, wind, ice or gravity, including such processes as gravitational
creep.
EXCAVATION
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar
material is cut into, dug, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or bulldozed and shall include the conditions resulting
therefrom.
EXCESSIVE SLOPE
Those slopes as identified on the soil group map as steep
slopes of 25% or more or any virgin area where, in a one-hundred-foot
horizontal distance, the average slope exceeds 25%.
FILL AND EMBANKMENT
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material
is deposited, placed, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported or moved
to a new location, including the condition resulting therefrom.
FLOODPLAIN
Areas designated by the Federal Emergency Management Administration
and other areas known to be subject to flooding.
GRADE
The elevation of the existing or proposed ground surface
at the location of any proposed excavation or fill.
GRADING
Excavation or fill, or any combination thereof, including
the conditions resulting from any excavation or fill.
GRADING, ENGINEERED
A grading operation in excess of 5,000 cubic yards and performed
in conformance with a grading plan and specifications prepared by
a professional engineer.
GRADING, REGULAR
A grading operation of less than 5,000 cubic yards. Where
the site conditions warrant, the administrator may require the submission
of a report on the site as prepared by a professional engineer, soils
engineer or engineering geologist.
GRADING PERMIT
Any permit required pursuant to the provisions of this article.
GRADING PLAN
A plan that depicts existing and proposed contours for any
proposed excavation and/or fill, which is set forth at a minimum of
two-foot contour intervals.
HAZARD
Any danger or potential danger to life, limb or health or
any adverse effect or potential adverse effect to the safety, use
or stability of property, waterways, public ways, structures, utilities,
storm sewers, sanitary sewers, including stream pollution.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
A landscape architect licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
LANDSLIDE-PRONE SOILS
Those soil formations whose characteristics are classified
as being landslide-prone or otherwise sensitive in the Soil Survey
of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
PERMIT HOLDER
Any landowner, agent of said landowner or tenant with the
permission of said landowner who has been granted a grading permit
pursuant to the provisions of this article.
PERSON
Any natural person, association, corporation, utility, local
agency, administrative agency or authority, any agent or agency thereof,
any combination of the foregoing.
RETAINING WALL
A structure composed of concrete, steel or other approved
building material constructed for the purpose of supporting a cut
or filled embankment which would otherwise not comply with the requirements
and standards set forth in this article and which is more than three
feet in height, as measured on the exposed vertical surface of the
wall.
SITE
A lot, tract or parcel of land but may be a series of lots,
tracts or parcels of land which are adjoining and with respect to
which grading work is to be continuous and performed at the same time,
situate within the Township of Robinson, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
SLOPE
The angle of the existing or proposed ground surface plane
to the horizontal expressed as the ratio of the horizontal to the
vertical or in percentage of slope (rise or fall per hundred feet).
SOILS ENGINEER
A registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania having training and experience in soils engineering.
SOIL SURVEY
Soil Survey of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as prepared
by the USDA Soil Conservation Service, et al. and accompanying text,
issued August 1981.
SOLID WASTE
Any and all parts or combination of ashes, garbage, refuse,
radioactive material, combustible demolition materials and industrial
wastes such as food processing wastes, wood, plastic, metal scrap
and other such materials whose disposal is regulated by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
The control of surface water runoff as regulated by Chapter
240 of the Code of the Township of Robinson.
SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE
The Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, as amended, being Chapter
250 of the Code of the Township of Robinson.
TOWNSHIP ENGINEER
The consulting professional engineers licensed by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania to practice engineering, knowledgeable in the branch
of civil engineering, who have been retained by the Township Commissioners
of the Township of Robinson.
ZONING ORDINANCE
The Zoning Ordinance, as amended, being Chapter
300 of the Code of the Township of Robinson.