This chapter is adopted pursuant to the Municipal
Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq., and this chapter, together
with the Zoning Ordinance,[1] is designed to effectuate the purpose of such law.
A.
Any word or term not defined shall be used with a
meaning of standard usage for the context in which the word is used.
B.
The following words and phrases in this chapter are
used as defined in the Municipal Land Use Law[1] but with reference to this chapter and appropriate provisions
thereof: applicant, application for development, building, capital
improvement, circulation, common open space, conventional, County
Master Plan, County Planning Board, days, developer, development,
development regulation, division, drainage, erosion, final approval,
historic site, interested party, land, major subdivision, Master Plan,
Mayor, municipal agency, nonconforming lot, nonconforming structure,
nonconforming use, Official County Map, Official Map, off-site, off-tract,
on-site, on-tract, open space, party immediately concerned, planned
development, plat, preliminary approval, preliminary floor plans and
elevations, public areas, public development proposal, public drainage
way, public open space, quorum, resubdivision, sedimentation, structure,
subdivision, variance, written notice.
[Amended 11-8-1978]
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
C.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
APPROVING AUTHORITY
BUILDING CODE
BUILDING PERMIT
CONDITIONAL USE
DISTRICT
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION
GOVERNING BODY
LOT
MAINTENANCE GUARANTY
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
MAP FILING LAW
MINOR SUBDIVISION
MUNICIPAL ATTORNEY OR ENGINEER
MUNICIPAL LAND USE LAW
OFF-SITE AND OFF-TRACT IMPROVEMENTS
OWNER
RIGHT-OF-WAY
SILTATION BASIN
SITE PLAN, EXEMPT
SITE PLAN, MAJOR
SITE PLAN, MINOR
STREET
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
TOWNSHIP
TRACT
ZONING DISTRICT
ZONING ORDINANCE
ZONING PERMIT
Certain phrases and words are herein defined as follows:
The Secretary of the approving authority for the type of
application for development involved.
[Added 11-8-1978]
The Township Land Use Board, unless a different municipal
agency is designated in the text of this chapter or has the power
of review, approval or other action, when acting pursuant to the authority
of the Municipal Land Use Law,[2] in which case it shall be that municipal agency.[3]
[Amended 3-20-2001 by Ord. No. 01-2]
The New Jersey State Uniform Construction Code.[4]
The construction permit required under the New Jersey State
Uniform Construction Code for new construction, renovation, alterations
or additions or a combination thereof.
A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon
a showing that such use in a specific location will comply with the
conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use
as contained in the Zoning Ordinance[5] and upon the issuance of an authorization therefor by
the approving authority.
A zoning district.[6]
The Environmental Commission established by ordinance of
the Township.[7]
The Township Committee of the Township.
A designated parcel or area of land established by plat or
otherwise established by deed description, subdivision of record or
survey map and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.
Any security, other than cash, which may be accepted by the
Township for maintenance of any improvements required by this chapter.
Development requiring major subdivision or site plan approval.
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision.
[Added 3-15-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-08]
N.J.S.A. 46:23-9.9 et seq.
[Amended 11-8-1978; 6-11-1980; 3-15-2005 by Ord. No.
2005-8]
The attorney or engineer of the Township.
N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
Improvements outside the site in question or the tract in
question, respectively, to accommodate conditions generated inside
the original tract as the result of the proposed development which
shall include but not be limited to installation of new improvements
and extensions and modification of existing improvements.
An individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership
or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in the land
sought to be developed to commence and maintain proceedings to develop
same under this chapter.[9]
[Amended 11-8-1978]
The total width and length of the course of a street, watercourse,
utility alignment or other way and within which all improvements and
rights of access are confined.
A facility through which stormwater is directed and which
is designed to collect eroded soil from a designated area.
A site plan which is exempt from the requirement of site
plan review and approval. Such a site plan is one which involves development
for which a building permit or zoning permit is required, but which
involves such a permit only for a detached one- or two-family dwelling
unit building or buildings or structures accessory thereto; or where
no new building or destruction or expansion of existing building is
involved and where, under the Zoning Ordinance,[10] no change in permitted principal use or only a change
from one permitted principal use, and accessory uses thereto, to another
permitted principal use, and accessory uses thereto, is involved.
All site plans not defined as minor or exempt.
A site plan for a development requiring less than 10 parking
and/or loading spaces as required in this chapter, containing less
than 2,500 square feet of floor area and not having more than 50%
lot coverage.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive
or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway,
which is shown upon a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law, which
is approved by official action as provided by this chapter 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 grant 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 line. For the purposes of
this chapter, streets shall be classified as follows:
ARTERIAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSStreets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
ALLEYSMinor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
The Township of Washington, in the County of Warren, New
Jersey.
An area of land composed of the lot or lots which are the
subject of the development application as well as all property (of
which such lot or lots are a part) contiguous thereto and in the same
ownership, and also all portions of a street or right-of-way contiguous
to such lot(s) or other property.
A zoning district established under the Zoning Ordinance.
The applicable Zoning Ordinance of the Township, as amended
and supplemented.[11]
The zoning permit required under the Zoning Ordinance.
[2]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
[3]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "Board
of Adjustment," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed
3-20-2001 by Ord. No. 01-2.
[4]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 52:27D-119 et seq. and N.J.A.C. 5:23. See also Ch. 59, Construction Code, Uniform, of this Code.
[8]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
[9]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "Planning
Board," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 3-20-2001
by Ord. No. 01-2.
