As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
ADVERSE EFFECT
Conditions or situations creating, imposing, aggravating
or leading to impractical, unsafe or unsatisfactory conditions on
a subdivided property or adjacent property, such as improper circulation
and drainage rights-of-way; inadequate drainage facilities; insufficient
street widths; unsuitable street grades; unsuitable street locations
to accommodate prospective or to coordinate and compose a convenient
system; locating lots in a manner not adaptable for the intended purposes
without danger to health or peril from flood, fire, erosion or other
menace; providing for lots of insufficient size; and neither providing
nor making future allowance for access to the interior portion of
the lot or for other facilities required by this chapter.
BOARD
The Planning Board of the Borough of Paulsboro.
DRAINAGE AND UTILITY RIGHT-OF-WAY
The lands required for the installation and maintenance of
stormwater and sanitary sewers, water pipes or drainage ditches and
other utilities as required along a natural stream or watercourse
for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein
to safeguard the public against flood damage.
EASEMENT
A right granted to the Borough or other governmental authority
for the use of private land for certain public and quasi-public purposes.
FLOODPLAIN
The relatively flat terrain adjoining a water channel which
has been or may be hereafter covered by floodwater of the channel.
LOT
Any parcel of land separated from other parcels or portions
as by a lawful subdivision or added of record or by survey map or
by metes and bounds.
MAINTENANCE BOND
Any security acceptable to the Borough Council to assure
the maintenance of duly approved improvements installed by the developer
after the final acceptance of the improvement and in accordance with
this chapter.
MAINTENANCE GUARANTEE
Security, in the form of either a surety bond, letter of
credit under the circumstances specified pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-53.5,
or cash, acceptable to the Borough to assure the maintenance of any
improvements installed by the developer after the final acceptance
of the improvement and required by this chapter.
[Added 12-6-2011 by Ord. No. 13.11]
MASTER PLAN
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the municipality which shall have been
duly adopted by the Planning Board.
OFFICIAL MAP
A map adopted in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A.
40:55D-1 et seq. The map shall be deemed conclusive with respect to
the location and width of streets and public drainageways and the
location and extent of flood control basins and public areas, whether
or not such streets, ways, basins or areas are improved or unimproved
or are in actual physical existence.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership,
corporation or trust having sufficient proprietary interest in the
land sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings
to subdivide the same under this chapter.
PERFORMANCE GUARANTY
Any security in accordance with the requirements of this
chapter which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement that certain
improvements be made before the Borough approves a plat, including
performance bonds, escrow agreements and other similar collateral
or surety agreements.
PLAT
The map of a subdivision.
(1)
SKETCH PLATThe sketch map of a subdivision of sufficient accuracy to be used for the purpose of discussion and classification.
(2)
PRELIMINARY PLATThe preliminary map indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision which is submitted to the Borough for consideration and tentative approval.
(3)
FINAL PLATThe final map of all or a portion of the subdivision which is presented to the Borough for final approval in accordance with these regulations and which, if approved, shall be filed with the proper county recording officer.
RESUBDIVISION
The further division of a lot or the adjustment of a lot
line or lot lines.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive
or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway,
or which is shown upon a plat heretobefore approved pursuant to law,
or which is approved by official action as provided in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1
et seq., or which is shown on a plat duly filed and recorded in the
office of the county recording officer prior to the appointment of
a Planning Board and the granting to such Board of the power to review
plats; and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved
or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs,
sidewalks, parking areas and other areas within the street lines.
(3)
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to the major thoroughfares, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
(4)
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
(5)
MARGINAL SERVICE STREETSThose which are parallel or adjacent to controlled-access highways or major thoroughfares and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET LINE
The edge of the existing right-of-way or future street right-of-way
as shown on the Master Plan or Official Map whichever would result
in the widest right-of-way, and which forms the division between the
street and lot.
SUBDIVIDER
Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership,
corporation or trust or any legal entity commencing proceedings under
this chapter to effect a subdivision or land hereunder for himself
or for another with the written consent of the owner.
SUBDIVISION[Amended 11-18-1986 by Ord. No.
0.11.86]
The division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two or
more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land for sale or
development. The following shall not be considered "subdivisions"
within the meaning of this chapter if no new streets are created:
divisions of land found by the Planning Board or Subdivision Committee
thereof appointed by the Chairman to be for agricultural purposes,
where all resulting parcels are five acres or larger in size; divisions
of property by testamentary or intestate provisions; divisions of
property upon court order, including but not limited to judgments
of foreclosure; and conveyances so as to combine existing lots by
deed or other instrument; consolidation of existing lots by deed recorded
instrument; and the conveyances of one or more adjoining lots, tracts
or parcels of land, owned by the same person or persons and all of
which are found and certified by the Administrative Officer to conform
to the requirements of the municipal development regulations and are
shown and designated as separate lots, tracts or parcels on the Tax
Map of the Borough of Paulsboro. The term "subdivision" shall also
include the term "resubdivision."
(1)
MINOR SUBDIVISIONAny subdivision containing not more than three lots fronting on an existing street, not involving any construction of streets or roads or the extension of municipal facilities and not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Master Plan, Official Map, Zoning Ordinance or this chapter, and further provided that such subdivision
does not involve a planned development or the extension of any off-tract
improvement, the cost of which is to be prorated pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:55D-42.
(3)
SUBDIVISION COMMITTEEA committee of Planning Board members appointed by the Chairman of the Board with the approval of the Board for the purpose of reviewing subdivision applications prior to action by the entire Board to determine whether such applications comply with all chapter provisions and with other duties relating to land subdivision, which may be conferred on this Committee by the Board through a motion duly adopted and recorded.