As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
DRAINAGE RIGHT-OF-WAY
The land required for the installation of stormwater sewers or drainage ditches or 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 in accordance with Chapter
1 of Title 58 of the New Jersey Statutes Annotated.
OFFICIAL MAP
A map adopted by ordinance of the governing body showing
the location and width of streets and drainage rights-of-way and the
location and extent of public parks and playgrounds, whether existing
or proposed.
PLAT
The map of a subdivision.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, viaduct,
alley or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal
roadway or a street or way shown upon a plat heretofore approved pursuant
to law or approved by official action pursuant to the Municipal Planning
Act (1953) or a street or way 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, sidewalks,
parking areas and other areas within the street lines.
The Official Map shall be deemed conclusive
with respect to the location and width of streets and drainage rights-of-way,
whether such streets and drainage rights-of-way are improved or unimproved.
Upon the application for approval of a plat, the municipality may reserve for future public use the location and extent of public parks and playgrounds shown on the Official Map or any part thereof and within the area of said plat for a period of one year after the approval of the final plat, or within such further time as agreed to by the applying party. Unless, within such one-year period or extension thereof, the municipality shall have entered into a contract to purchase or instituted condemnation proceedings for said park or playground according to law, such applying party shall not be bound to observe the reservation of such public park or playground. During such period of one year or any extension thereof, the applicant for the plat approval and his assigns and successors in interest may use the area so reserved for any purpose other than the location of buildings or improvements thereof, except as provided in §
98-6 of this chapter.
No permit for the erection of any building shall
be issued unless the building lot abuts a street giving access to
such proposed structure which has been duly placed on the Official
Map or a street shown upon a plat approved by the Planning Board and
governing body of the City of Vineland, as provided in the Land Subdivision
Ordinance of the City. Before such building permit shall be issued, such street
shall have been certified to be suitably improved to the satisfaction
of the governing body, acting on the advice of the City Engineer,
or such suitable improvement shall have been assured by means of a
performance guaranty, in accordance with standards and specifications
approved by the governing body in relation to the City Subdivision
Ordinance, and as adequate with respect to the public health, safety
and general welfare for the special circumstances of the particular
street.