As used in these subdivision regulations, words in the singular include the plural and those in the plural include the singular. The word "person" includes a corporation, unincorporated association and a partnership, as well as an individual. The word "building" includes structure and shall be construed as if followed by the phrase "or part thereof". The word "street" includes avenue, boulevard, court, expressway, highway, lane, arterial and road. The word "watercourse" includes channel, creek, ditch, drain, dry run, spring and stream. The word "may" is permissive; the words "shall" and "will" are mandatory, subject, however, to the provisions of § 197-30.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall be defined as follows:
A minor right-of-way providing secondary vehicular access
to the side or rear of two or more properties.
An area bounded by streets.
An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections defined
by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the intersection
of street right-of-way lines.
The Planning Commission of the City of Pottsville.
The City Engineer or other qualified person designated by
the Planning Commission to perform all administrative and/or supervisory
duties required of the Commission Engineer by the provisions of these
subdivision regulations.
A minor street intersecting another street at one end and
terminated at the other by a vehicular turnaround.
The deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for any
general and public uses, reserving to himself no other rights than
such as are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the
public uses to which the property has been devoted.
A right-of-way granted for limited use of private land for
a public or quasi-public purpose.
A street, generally parallel and adjacent to a property line,
having a lesser right-of-way width than normally required for satisfactory
improvement and use of the street.
A right-of-way for pedestrian use extending from a street
into a block or across a block to another street.
[Added 4-11-1994 by Ord. No. 515]
Any of the following activities:
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; or
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.
A tract or parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership,
use or improvement.
That portion of a street or alley intended for vehicular
use.
A complete and exact subdivision plan, prepared for official
recording as required by statute, to define property rights and proposed
streets and other improvements.
A tentative subdivision plan, in lesser detail than a final
plan, showing approximate proposed streets and lot layout as a basis
for consideration prior to preparation of a final plan.
An informal plan, not necessarily to scale, indicating salient
existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general
layout of the proposed subdivision.
A lot extending between and having frontage on a major traffic
street and a minor street, and with vehicular access solely from the
latter.
Land reserved for use as a street, alley, interior walk or
for other public purpose.
The line within a property defining the required minimum
distance between any enclosed structure and the adjacent right-of-way.
The maximum extent of unobstructed vision (in a horizontal
or vertical plane) along a street from a vehicle located at any given
point on the street.
A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way, intended
for use as a means of vehicular and pedestrian circulation. Classes
of streets are as follows:
MAJOR TRAFFIC STREETSThose serving large volumes of comparatively high-speed and long-distance traffic, and include facilities classified as main and secondary highways by the Pennsylvania State Highway Department and include streets classified as arterial thoroughfares or primary streets in the Traffic Plan adopted by the Planning Commission.
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which, in addition to giving access to abutting properties, intercept minor streets and provide routes, carrying considerable volumes of traffic, to community facilities and to major traffic streets, and include streets classified as secondary streets in the Traffic Plan adopted by the Planning Commission.
MINOR STREETSThose used primarily to provide access to abutting property.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSMinor streets, parallel and adjacent to major traffic streets, providing access to abutting properties and control of intersections with the major traffic streets.
A street dedicated to public use.
The owner or authorized agent of the owner of a subdivision.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
plots, sites or other divisions of land for immediate or future sale
or for building development, with or without streets or highways.
Ordinance No. 39-65, passed April 2, 1965, as amended, and
as codified in this chapter.
An open space as may be required by these subdivision regulations
of uniform width or depth on the same lot with a building or group
of buildings, which open space lies between the principal building
or group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and
unobstructed from the ground upward.
FRONT YARDAn open space extending the full width of the lot between a building and the front lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
REAR YARDAn open space extending the full width of the lot between a building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
SIDE YARDAn open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between a building and the nearest side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
