This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Sunbury Land Subdivision Regulations."
[Amended 2-14-1977 by Ord. No. 965; 5-9-1977 by Ord. No.
974]
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the provisions
of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended,[1] for the purpose of ensuring sites suitable for building
purposes and human habitation, and to provide for the harmonious development
of the City of Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, for adequate
open spaces, for traffic, recreation, light and air and for the proper
distribution of population, thereby creating conditions favorable
to the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens
of the City; to regulate the subdivision and/or development of flood-prone
land areas; to require that each subdivision lot in flood-prone areas
be provided with a safe building site with adequate access and that
public facilities which serve such uses be designed and installed
to preclude flood damage at the time of initial construction; and
to protect individuals from buying lands which are unsuitable for
use because of flood hazards by prohibiting the subdivision and/or
development of unprotected flood-prone lands.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101
et seq.
[Added 2-14-1977 by Ord. No. 965]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A flood that has one chance in 100 or a 1% chance of being
equaled or exceeded in any year. For the purposes of this chapter,
the 100-year flood (base flood) as defined by the Federal Insurance
Administration, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development,
in the Type 15 Flood Insurance Study for the City of Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
[Added 5-9-1977 by Ord. No. 974]
The 100-year-flood elevation.
[Added 5-9-1977 by Ord. No. 974]
A line parallel to the front, side or rear lot line set so
as to provide the required yard.
The area of a street, road or alley used for vehicular traffic.
The area of unobstructed vision at street intersections,
defined by lines of sight between points at a given distance from
the intersection of street center lines.
The Planning Commission of the municipality.
A street open at one end for vehicular or pedestrian access,
with the opposite end terminating in a vehicular turnaround.
A building designed for residential purposes and used as
the living quarters for one or more families.
A group of two or more single-family, two-family or multifamily
dwellings occupying a lot in one ownership.
A building used by three or more families living independently
of each other and doing their own cooking, including apartment houses.
A building used by one family and having two party walls
in common with other buildings.
A building used by one family, having only one dwelling unit
and having two side yards.
A building used by one family, having one side yard and one
party wall in common with another building.
A building used by two families, with one dwelling unit arranged
over the other, and having two side yards.
A building used by two families, with one dwelling unit arranged
over the other, having one side yard and one party wall in common
with another building.
One or more rooms used for living and sleeping purposes and
having a kitchen with fixed cooking facilities arranged for occupancy
by one family.
A right granted to use certain land area for a special purpose
consistent with the general property rights of the owner.
A registered engineer retained by the municipality, authorized
to practice engineering as defined by the Registration Act of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[1]
The engineering specifications of the municipality regulating
the installation of any required improvements or for any facility,
installed by an owner, subject to public use.[2]
Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions,
changes or adjustments to properties and structures, which reduce
or eliminate flood damage to lands, water and sanitary facilities,
structures and contents of buildings.
[Added 5-9-1977 by Ord. No. 974]
The elected officials of the municipality.
Sanitarian of the State Department of Health, local Health
Officer or other qualified personnel.
A lot or parcel of land which is, or in the future may be,
offered for sale, conveyance, transfer or improvement.
Area contained within the property lines, excluding street
area, but including the area of any easement.
A lot, the opposite ends of which abut on streets.
A lot between an arterial street and a minor street, with
vehicular access only from the minor street.
Width of a lot measured at the building setback.
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land divided into two or
more mobile home lots for rent or sale for which the construction
of facilities for servicing the lot on which the mobile home is to
be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities,
either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads, and the
construction of streets) is completed on or after the effective date
of floodplain management regulations adopted by a community.
[Added 5-9-1977 by Ord. No. 974]
Any individual or group of individuals, partnership, copartnership
or corporation.
A strip of land between property lines for use as a road,
street or alley.
A pipe for conveying sewage, and excludes stormwater, surface
water and groundwater.
A pipe for conveying rainwater, surface water, condensate,
cooling water and similar liquid waste, exclusive of sewage or industrial
waste.
Public rights-of-way for vehicular or other traffic, whether
designated as streets, highway, thoroughfares, parkways, throughways,
roads, avenues, boulevards, lanes, places or alleys, or however other
designated, and for the purpose of this chapter shall be classed as
follows:
PRIMARY STREETSStreets which traverse through the municipality and are used primarily for through, fast or heavy traffic.
SECONDARY AND COLLECTOR STREETSStreets which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of primary streets, including principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for major circulation within such developments.
MINOR STREETSStreets used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSMinor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to primary streets 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 shortest distance between the lines delineating the right-of-way
of a street.
A person, copartnership or corporation owning land in the
municipality and for which a land subdivision application is filed
and processed under the provisions of this chapter.
The division of a single lot, tract or parcel of land, or
part thereof, into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, including
changes in street lines or lot lines, for the purpose, whether immediate
or future, of transfer of ownership or of building development; provided,
however, that divisions of land for agricultural purposes in parcels
of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of
access, shall not be included within the meaning of "subdivision."
The term includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context,
shall relate to the process of subdividing or the land subdivided.
A registered surveyor, as defined by the Registration Act
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[3]
