[Amended 1-14-1991 by Ord. No. 1-91]
A. 
General interpretation. In these regulations, when not inconsistent with the context:
(1) 
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
(2) 
Words in the present tense imply also the future tense.
(3) 
Singular includes the plural.
(4) 
The male gender includes the female gender.
(5) 
The word "person" includes any individual, firm, trust, partnership, public or private association or corporation or other entity.
B. 
Specific words and phrases. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated.
(1) 
People.
BOROUGH
Jersey Shore Borough as represented by the Borough Council or its recognized agents, as appropriate under the Borough Code.
COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
County Sanitarian's office of the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
DEVELOPER
Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the permission of such landowner, who causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land development.
PLANNING COMMISSION
Jersey Shore Borough Planning Commission.
SUBDIVIDER
Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the permission of such landowner, who causes to be made a subdivision of land.
(2) 
Plans.
FINAL PLAN
A complete and exact subdivision plan prepared for official recording as required by statute.
PRELIMINARY PLAN
A tentative subdivision plan, in lesser detail than the final plan, indicating the approximate proposed layout of a subdivision as a basis for consideration prior to preparation of the final plan.
SKETCH PLAN
An informal plan, not necessarily to exact scale, indicating salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of a proposed subdivision.
(3) 
Site terms. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CLEAR SIGHT TRIANGLE
An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections. It is defined by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the intersection of the street center lines.
EASEMENT
A right-of-way granted for a limited use of land for a public or quasi-public purpose.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
(a) 
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
[1] 
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
[2] 
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.
(b) 
A subdivision of land, provided that land development shall not include:
[1] 
The conversion of an existing single-family detached dwelling or single-family semidetached dwelling into not more than three residential units, unless such units are intended to be a condominium.
[2] 
The addition of an accessory building, including farm buildings, on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal building.
[3] 
The addition or conversion of buildings or rides within the confines of an enterprise which would be considered an amusement park. For purposes of this definition, an "amusement park" is defined as a tract or area used principally as a location for permanent amusement structures or rides. This exclusion shall not apply to newly acquired acreage by an amusement park until initial plans for the expanded area have been approved by proper authorities.
SETBACK
The horizontal distance between a structure and a street or property line.
SUBDIVISION
The division of a parcel of land into two or more lots or parcels for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development or, if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. However, a division of land for agricultural purposes into lots or parcels of 10 acres or more and not involving a new street is not a subdivision. The term includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided.
C. 
Lot terms.
LOT
A parcel of land intended as a unit for transfer of ownership, use, improvement or dedication.
LOT AREA
The area contained within the property lines of a lot as shown on a subdivision plan, excluding space within any street, but including the area of any easement.
LOT WIDTH
The width of a lot measured at the building setback line.
D. 
Streets and walks.
CARTWAY
The surface of a street or alley available for vehicular traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETS
A street or road which is used primarily for distributing traffic to major streets, including roads classified as secondary highways by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
MINOR STREETS
(1) 
LOCAL STREETA street which is used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
(2) 
CUL-DE-SACA street intersecting another street at one end and terminating at the other in a vehicular turnaround.
(3) 
SERVICE DRIVE or ALLEYA minor street which is used primarily for vehicle service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
STREET LINE
The property line or limit of a right-of-way.
E. 
Dwelling terms.
DWELLING
A building designed for permanent living quarters and containing only dwelling or housing units, but not including hotels, rooming houses or such accommodations used for transient occupancy.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY
A building containing one dwelling unit only.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building containing two dwelling units only, with one unit above the other.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or portion of a building designed to provide complete living facilities, including eating and plumbing facilities, for a family or a single person.
F. 
Other terms.
MEDIATION
A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in a dispute mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.
WATER SURVEY
An inventory of the source, quantity, yield and use of groundwater and surface water resources within a municipality.
Where a regulation would cause unique and undue hardship as it applies to a particular subdivider's property, the Planning Commission may grant the subdivider a variance from the strict application of the regulation, if the variance will not nullify the objectives of this chapter. In granting a variance, the Planning Commission may impose conditions that will substantially secure the objectives of the regulation that is varied.
A. 
Improvements. The final responsibility for installation of improvements rests with the subdivider. Upon installation of these improvements, the subdivider shall take the final steps to dedicate the improvements to the Borough and have them accepted.
B. 
Offer of dedication. Recording the final plan after approval has the effect of an irrevocable offer to dedicate all streets and other public areas to public use. The offer to dedicate streets, parks or other areas or portions of them does not impose any duty upon the Borough concerning maintenance or improvement until the proper authorities of the Borough have made actual appropriation by ordinance or resolution, by entry or improvement. Any streets or public areas not being dedicated to the Borough or any conditions attached to the dedications shall be noted on the plan to be recorded.
For any replatting or resubdivision of land, the same procedures and regulations apply as prescribed for an original subdivision except as follows. Lot sizes may be varied on an approved plan after recording if all of the following conditions are met:
A. 
No lot or tract of land created or sold is smaller than the size as shown on the approved plan.
B. 
Drainage easements or rights-of-way are not changed.
C. 
Street alignments and block sizes are not changed.
D. 
The rear portions of lots are not subdivided from the front part.
E. 
The character of the area is maintained.