Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following terms shall,
for the purposes of these regulations, have the meanings indicated:
A.
Words in the singular include the plural and those in the plural
include the singular.
B.
Words used in the present tense include the future tense.
C.
The words "person," "developer" and "owner" include a corporation,
unincorporated associations, and a partnership or other legal entity,
as well as an individual.
D.
The word "building" includes structure and shall be construed as
if followed by the phrase "or part thereof."
E.
The word "watercourse" includes channel, creek, ditch, dry run, spring,
stream, and river.
F.
The words "should" and "may" are permissive; the words "shall" and
"will" are mandatory and directive.
Other terms or words used herein shall be interpreted or defined
as follows:
A tract or area used principally as a location for permanent
amusement structures or rides.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.[1]
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
An area bounded by three or more streets.
Municipal Engineer.
A line marking the limit, or border, of a lot.
A line within a lot defining required minimum setback distance
between any structure and the adjacent street line.
The portion of a street designed or intended for vehicular
use.
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.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
The officially adopted Comprehensive Plan of Bellefonte Borough.
Real estate, portions of which are designated for separate
ownership and the remainder of which is designated for common ownership
solely by the owners of those portions. Real estate is not a condominium
unless the undivided interests in the common elements are vested in
the unit owners.
This term is defined by Municipalities Planning Code. The
County of Centre, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Planning Commission of the County of Centre.
A publicly or privately owned right-of-way intended for pedestrian
use.
A drain, ditch or conduit not incorporated in a closed system
that carries drainage water under a driveway, roadway, railroad, pedestrian
walk, or public way.
A stone or concrete boundary usually marking the edge of
the roadway or paved area.
An excavation. The difference between a point on the original
ground and designated point of lower elevation of the final grade.
Also, the material removed in excavation.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
Subdivision or land development, as defined by the Municipalities
Planning Code.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
Surface water runoff; or
The removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains,
grading or other means which include runoff controls to minimize erosion
and sedimentation during and after construction or development, the
means for preserving the water supply and the prevention or alleviation
of flooding.
Any ditch, gutter, culvert, storm sewer, or other structure
designed, intended or constructed for the purpose of diverting surface
waters from or carrying surface waters off streets, public rights-of-way,
parks, recreational areas, or any part of any subdivision or contiguous
land areas.
Pipes, swales, natural features and man-made improvements
designed to carry drainage.
A private roadway providing access for vehicles to a parking
space, garage, dwelling or other structure.
Any structure, or part thereof, designed to be occupied as
living quarters as a single housekeeping unit.
A right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for limited use
of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose and within which
the owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structures
but shall have the right to make any other use of the land which is
not inconsistent with the rights of the grantee.
A licensed professional engineer registered by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
The engineering specifications of a municipality regulating
the installation of any required improvements or for any facility
installed by any owner, subject to public use.
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments or
the wearing away of the land surface by water, wind, ice and gravity.
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar
material is dug into, cut, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or bulldozed.
The physical limits of the Floodplain Conservation Regulations;
areas subject to periodic inundation by floodwaters or runoff as delineated
on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for municipalities, as prepared
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or on maps pertaining
to Bellefonte Borough Floodplain Ordinance, or the Soil Survey of
Centre County, Pennsylvania, August 1981, published by the United
States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service[2] in cooperation with the Pennsylvania State University
College of Agriculture and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection State Conservation Commission.
A relatively flat or low land area that is subject to partial
or complete inundation from an adjoining or nearby stream, river or
watercourse, and/or any area subject to unusual and rapid accumulation
of surface waters from any source.
Any man-made immovable item which becomes part of, is placed
upon, or is affixed to real estate.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
The area contained within the property lines of a lot, excluding
space within all streets and within all permanent drainage easements,
but including the areas of all other easements.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 167 of
1968, as amended by Act 170 of 1988, as further amended by Act 209
of 1990 and Act 131 of 1992, and as may be further reenacted or amended
hereafter.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
An underground system with a septic tank used for the on-site
decomposition of domestic wastes.
The unoccupied space open to the sky on the same lot with
the building, not including parking lots.
A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water, or a combination
of land and water within a development site, and designed and intended
for the use or enjoyment of residents of a development, not including
streets, off-street parking areas, and areas set aside for public
facilities.
The Planning Commission of Bellefonte Borough, Centre County,
Pennsylvania.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
The basic purpose for which a building or land area is occupied
or intended to be occupied as opposed to accessory or incidental uses.
This term is defined by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code.
This term is defined by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code.
Any fee, leasehold or other estate or interest in, over or
under land, including structures, fixtures and other improvements
and interests which, by custom, usage or law, pass with a conveyance
of land though not described in the contract of sale or instrument
of conveyance. Real estate includes parcels with or without upper
or lower boundaries and spaces that may be filled with air or water.
A strip of land adjacent to a street intended to control
access to the street from an adjacent property.
A lot extending between and having frontage on two generally
parallel streets, with vehicular access solely from one street.
A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, forced
dedication, prescription or condemnation and intended to be occupied
by a road, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or
gas pipeline, waterline, sanitary storm sewer, or other similar uses;
generally, the right to pass over the property of another.
The surface water discharge or rate of discharge of a given
watershed after a fall of rain or snow that does not enter the soil
but runs off the surface of the land.
A sanitary sewage collection method in which sewage is carried
from the site by a system of pipes to a central treatment and disposal
plant.
The process by which mineral or organic matter is accumulated
or deposited by wind, water or gravity. Once this matter is deposited
or remains suspended in water, it is usually referred to as "sediment."
A paved, surfaced or leveled area, parallel to and usually
separated from the street, used as a pedestrian walkway.
The length of roadway visible to the driver of a passenger
vehicle at any given point on the roadway when the view is unobstructed
by traffic.
The face of an embankment or cut section; any ground whose
surface makes an angle with the plane of the horizon. Slopes are usually
expressed in a percentage based upon vertical difference in feet per
100 feet of horizontal distance.
Chemical or structural treatment of a mass of soil to increase
or maintain its stability or otherwise to improve its engineering
properties.
Radiant energy received from the sun at wave lengths suitable
for conversion into thermal, chemical or electrical energy.
Any device, structure or part of a device or structure which
is used primarily to transform solar energy into thermal, chemical
or electrical energy, including any space or structural component
specifically designed to retain heat derived from solar energy.
A complete design or assembly consisting of a solar energy
collector, an energy storage facility, and components for the distribution
of transformed energy to the extent that they cannot be used jointly
with a conventional energy system. Passive solar energy systems which
use the natural properties of materials and architectural components
to collect and store solar energy without using any external mechanical
power are included in this definition if they do not fulfill structural
or other functions.
The space between a solar energy collector and the sun which
must be free of obstructions that shade the collector to an extent
which precludes its cost-effective operation.
A right, expressed as an easement, covenant or condition,
or other property interest in any deed or other instrument executed
by or on behalf of any property owner, which protects the solar sky
space of an actual, propose, or designated solar energy collector
at a described location by forbidding or limiting activities or land
uses that interfere with access to solar energy.
Any storm drainage technique that retards or detains runoff,
such as detention or retention basin, parking lot storage, rooftop
storage, porous pavement, dry wells or any combination thereof.
A watercourse having a source and terminus, banks and channel
through which waters flow at least periodically.
This term is defined by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code.
Street classifications are established by the 1992 Bellefonte
Borough Comprehensive Plan, as amended (see Section 5, Transportation
System), and are defined as follows:
PRINCIPAL ARTERIALA highway, normally a freeway, that serves corridor movements having a trip length and travel density characteristics indicative of substantial statewide or interstate travel.
MINOR ARTERIALA major highway or road that serves urban areas and other traffic generators and, when integrated with principal arterials, forms a network providing interstate and intercounty service.
MAJOR COLLECTORA road serving established communities not adequately served by the arterial system; a major collector provides service to all developed areas within a reasonable distance.
LOCAL STREETA service street not conducive to through traffic that provides access to adjacent land and connection to the collector and arterial systems.
ALLEYA street, usually to the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting a street, used primarily for limited vehicular service access.
The officially established grade of the street upon which
a lot fronts or, in its absence, the established grade of other streets
upon which the lot abuts at the midpoint of frontage of the lot thereon.
If there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of
the street at such midpoint shall be taken as the street grade.
The dividing line between a street and a lot; includes right-of-way
line and front lot line.
The shortest distance between the lines delineating the right-of-way
of a street.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
This term is defined by the Municipalities Planning Code.
An individual licensed and registered under the laws of this
commonwealth to engage in the practice of land surveying.
A low-lying stretch of land characterized as a depression
used to carry surface water runoff.
Surface soils and subsurface soils which presumably are fertile
soils and soil material ordinarily rich in organic matter or humus
debris. Topsoil is usually found in the uppermost soil layer called
the "A Horizon."
A map showing the elevations of the ground by contours or
elevations.
The configuration of the surface area showing relative elevations.
Any agency which, under public franchise or ownership or under
certificate of convenience and necessity, provides the public with
electricity, gas, heat, steam, communication, rail transportation,
water, sewage collection, or other similar service; or
A closely regulated private enterprise with an exclusive franchise
for providing a public service.
An inventory of the source, quantity, yield and use of groundwater
and surface water resources within the Borough.
A permanent stream, intermittent stream, river, brook, creek
or a channel or ditch for water, whether natural or man-made.
Areas that are periodically or permanently inundated by surface
water or groundwater and support vegetation adapted for life in saturated
soil. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, bogs and areas shown on the
National Wetlands Inventory Maps, as prepared by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
