[Ord. 2002-02, 2/7/2002]
In this chapter the following rules of interpretation shall
be used:
A.Â
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
B.Â
Words in the present tense may imply the future tense.
C.Â
Words used as singular imply the plural.
D.Â
The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders.
E.Â
The word "person" includes a partnership, corporation, association,
trust, estate or any other legally recognized entity as well as an
individual.
F.Â
The word "shall" is to be interpreted as mandatory; the word "may"
as directory.
G.Â
References to any document, official or entity (i.e., codes, ordinances,
resolutions, plans, maps, governmental bodies, commissions, agencies
or officials) are references to Manheim Township documents, officials
or entities in effect at the time, unless the text indicates that
another reference is intended.
[Ord. 2002-02, 2/7/2002; as amended by Ord. 2008-01, 10/20/2008]
Unless otherwise stated, the following words and phrases shall
be construed throughout this chapter to have the meanings indicated
in this section:
The removal of the surface of land through the combined action
of man's activities and the natural processes at a rate greater
than would occur because of the natural process alone.
A private drive providing pedestrian and vehicular access
between a public or private street and a parking lot or garage within
a land development.
An additional dwelling unit placed upon any property as ECHO
housing or upon an agricultural property for immediate family members
or as temporary farm employee housing as provided for by the Township
Zoning Ordinance. Accessory dwellings shall be processed in accordance
with the Accessory Dwelling Guidelines as provided in the Appendix
and the modification provisions of § 310.
The Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act, Act of January 24,
1966, P.L. (1965) 1535, No. 537, as amended, 35 P.S. § 750.1
et seq.
Act of October 4, 1978, P.L. 864 (Act 167), as amended, and
known as the "Stormwater Management Act."[1]
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Any person, other than a landowner or developer, who, acting
for the landowner or developer, submits to the Planning Commission
and Township Supervisors subdivision or land development plans for
the purpose of obtaining approval thereof.
Activities associated with agriculture such as, but not limited
to, agricultural cultivation, agricultural operations, and animal
heavy use areas. This includes the work of producing crops, including
tillage, land clearing, plowing, disking, harrowing, planting, harvesting
crops or pasturing and raising of livestock and installation of conservation
measures. Construction of new buildings or impervious area is not
considered an agricultural activity.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The use of land for the cultivation of soil, farming, dairying,
pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, forestry, viticulture
and animal and poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory uses
for packing, treating or storing the produce and equipment for housing
and feeding the animals and housing the equipment, also land which
has been diverted from agricultural use by an active federal farm
program, provided the land has a conservation cover of grass, legume,
trees or wildlife shrubs. The use of land for a dwelling site is not
an agricultural purpose.
A private drive within a parking compound providing pedestrian
and vehicular access between an access drive and a parking space which
is located within the parking compound.
A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has
filed an application for development including his heirs, successors
and assigns.
Every application, whether preliminary or final, required
to be filed and approved prior to start of construction or development,
including but not limited to, an application for a building permit,
for the approval of a subdivision plot or plan or for the approval
of a land development plan.
Any Authority and its successors, or a municipality or other
public utility which provides for public sewage disposal or water
service within Manheim Township.
Activities, facilities, designs, measures, or procedures
used to manage stormwater impacts from regulated activities, to meet
State water quality requirements, to promote groundwater recharge,
and to otherwise meet the purposes of this Chapter. Stormwater BMPs
are commonly grouped into one of two broad categories or measures:
structural or nonstructural. In this Chapter, nonstructural BMPs or
measures refer to operational and/or behavior-related practices that
attempt to minimize the contact of pollutants with stormwater runoff,
whereas structural BMPs or measures are those that consist of a physical
device or practice that is installed to capture and treat stormwater
runoff. Structural BMPs include, but are not limited to, a wide variety
of practices and devices, from large-scale retention ponds and constructed
wetlands to small-scale underground treatment systems, infiltration
facilities, filter strips, low-impact design, bioretention, wet ponds,
permeable paving, grassed swales, riparian or forested buffers, sand
filters, detention basins, and manufactured devices. Structural stormwater
BMPs are permanent appurtenances to the project site.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
An area bounded by streets.
Pennsylvania Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual,
as amended and updated.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The Manheim Township Board of Supervisors.
Any structure or edifice designed or intended for use as
an enclosure, a shelter or for protection of persons, animals or property.
A detached subordinate building, the use of which is customarily
incidental and subordinate to that of the principal building, and
which is located on the same lot as that occupied by the principal
building.
An increase in floor area or attached expansion of an existing
building or structure.
The total area of outside dimensions on a horizontal plane
at ground level of the principal building and all accessory buildings.
That portion of a lot covered or occupied by structures.
For the purpose of computation, building coverage excludes fences,
freestanding walls, retaining walls, decks extending no more than
eight feet from the building wall, playground equipment, wading pools
no more than 30 inches above grade, cornices, eaves, gutters, unenclosed
and uncovered porches, stoops, terraces, balconies, fire escapes and
unenclosed steps.
The building envelope is that area of the lot that has no
building restrictions. The building envelope shall not include the
area of any required setbacks (except for driveways which cross yards),
buffer yards or floodplains.
A building for agricultural uses, namely barns, corn cribs,
silos, and other similar farm structures.
The total overall height of a building measured from the
average elevation of the finished lot grade to the highest point of
the roof.
A line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane and
a vertical plane that coincides with the exterior surface of the building
on any side. In case of a cantilevered or projected section of a building,
except overhanging eaves, gutters and cornices, the vertical plane
will coincide with the most projected surface.
A building which is enclosed within exterior walls or fire
walls, built, erected and framed of component structural parts, designed
for housing, shelter, enclosure, employment of individuals, storage
of materials and is the main structure on a given lot.
The line within a property, usually parallel to the right-of-way
or property line, defining the required minimum horizontal distance
between any structure and the adjacent street right-of-way or property
line.
FRONT SETBACK LINEThe line nearest the front of, and across, a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the front line of buildings and structures and the front lot line.
REAR SETBACK LINEThe line nearest the rear of and across a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the rear line of buildings and structures and the rear lot line. On corner and through lots, the rear setback line shall be considered that area between the principal structure and the property line directly opposite the street of access.
SIDE SETBACK LINEThe line nearest the side of, and across, a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the side line of buildings and structures and the side lot line.
The paved area of a street.
A natural or artificial watercourse with a definite bed,
and with banks, which confine and conduct continuously or periodically
flowing water.
An area of unobstructed vision at the intersection of two
or more streets, access drives or alleys. It is defined by lines of
sight between points at a given distance from the intersection of
the center lines of both streets.
United States Army Corps of Engineers.
A parcel or parcels of land, 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.
A sewage disposal system, other than a public sewer system,
which provides sewage disposal for two or more units of occupancy
which shall comply with all applicable regulations of the Department
of Environmental Protection or other regulatory agency.
A water supply system, other than a public water system,
providing water for more than two units of occupancy which shall comply
with all applicable regulations of the Department of Environmental
Protection or other regulatory agency.
The required restoration, enhancement, or creation of wetlands
to offset unavoidable wetland impacts from construction.
The plan, or parts thereof, which has been adopted by the
Board of Supervisors, showing its recommendations for such systems
as parks and recreation facilities, water supply, sewer and sewage
disposal, transportation highways, civic centers and other public
improvements which affect the development of the Township.
The York County Conservation District, which district is
as defined in Section 3(c) of the Conservation District Law [3 P.S.
§ 851(c)], which has the authority under a delegation agreement
executed with DEP to administer and enforce all or a portion of the
regulations promulgated under 25 Pa. Code Chapter 102.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The York County Planning Commission.
A structure with appurtenances which carries a watercourse
under or through an embankment or fill.
The raised edge of a pavement to confine surface water to
the pavement and to protect the abutting lands from vehicular traffic.
An impoundment structure regulated by the Pennsylvania DEP
Chapter 105 regulations.[2]
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The deliberate offering of land by its owner for general
public use.
A legal document conveying ownership in real property.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or any agency successor thereto.
The Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
or any agency successor thereto.
The design speed for streets designed in accordance with
this chapter shall equal the proposed posted speed plus five miles
per hour.
The magnitude and temporal distribution of precipitation
from a storm event measured in probability of occurrence (e.g., ten-year
storm) and duration (e.g., 24 hours), and used in the design and evaluation
of stormwater management systems. Also see "return period."
[Amended by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A structure designed to retard stormwater runoff by temporarily
storing and releasing the runoff at a predetermined rate.
[Amended by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The volume of runoff that is captured and released into the
waters of this Commonwealth at a controlled rate.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the
permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision
of land or a land development; a subdivider.
The provisions for development, including a planned residential
development, a plat of subdivision, all covenants relating to use,
location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of
use or density or development, streets, ways and parking facilities,
common open space and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of
the development plan" shall mean written and graphic materials referred
to in this definition.
An impervious or impermeable surface that is disconnected
from any stormwater drainage or conveyance system and is redirected
or directed to a pervious area, which allows for infiltration, filtration,
and increased time of concentration as specified in Appendix B, Disconnected
Impervious Area, of this Chapter.[3]
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
An unstabilized land area where an earth disturbance activity
is occurring or has occurred.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A right granted by a landowner to a grantee, allowing the
use of private land for stormwater management purposes.
Any ditch, gutter, pipe, culvert, storm sewer or other structure
designed, intended or constructed for the purpose of carrying surface
waters off of streets, public rights-of-way, parks, recreational areas
or any part of any subdivision or contiguous land areas.
See "access drive."
A minor vehicular surface other than a street providing access
from a street or a private road to a lot.
A private driveway utilized by more than two, but not more
than four, separate residential lots or dwellings for access to a
public or private street.
A private driveway providing access between a public or private
street or access drive and parking areas for not more than two units
of occupancy including, but not limited to, flag lots and land developments.
A building or portion thereof, forming a single habitable
unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living,
sleeping, cooking and eating exclusively by one or more individuals
living as a single housekeeping unit.
Erosion and Sediment Pollution Control Manual, as amended
and updated.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A construction or other human activity which disturbs the
surface of the land, including, but not limited to: clearing and grubbing;
grading; excavations; embankments; road maintenance; building construction;
and the moving, depositing, stockpiling, or storing of soil, rock,
or earth materials.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A limited right of use granted in private land for a public
or quasi-public purpose.
Any driveway or other entrance from a public or private road.
A field road providing access to agriculturally used fields and not
providing access to any residential, commercial or industrial structure
is not considered an easement of access.
A temporary additional dwelling unit placed on a property
for occupancy by either an elderly, handicapped or disabled individual.
A device used to slow the velocity of stormwater at points
of concentrated discharge associated with pipe outlets and similar
conditions.
A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
A water conveyance which lacks substrates associated with
flowing waters and flows only in direct response to precipitation
in the immediate watershed or in response to melting snowpack and
which is always above the local water table.
The removal of soil particles by the action of water, wind,
ice or other geological agents.
The dominant land cover during the five-year period immediately
preceding a proposed regulated activity.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A letter of credit or other form of guarantee in accordance
with the requirements of Article V of the Municipalities Planning
Code posted by a developer to secure the completion of improvements
indicated on an approved plan.
The area of inundation, including the floodway and floodway
fringe, which functions as a conveyance, storage or holding area for
floodwater to a width required for a one-hundred-year flood.
The aggregate of the horizontal areas of all rooms used for
habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom,
closets, hallways, stairways, but not including cellars or attics,
or service rooms or areas such as utility rooms or garages, nor unheated
areas such as enclosed porches.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building and its accessory buildings on the same lot, excluding
cellar and basement floor areas not devoted to residential use, but
including the area of roofed porches and roofed terraces. All dimensions
shall be measured between exterior faces of walls, or in cases of
roofed porches and roofed terraces, measured from outer edge of the
roof.
Planning and activities necessary for the management of forest
land. These include conducting a timber inventory, preparation of
forest management plans, silvicultural treatment, cutting budgets,
logging road design and construction, timber harvesting, site preparation,
and reforestation.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The horizontal or curvilinear distance along the street line
upon which a lot abuts.
The slope expressed in a percent, which indicates the rate
of change of elevation in feet per hundred linear feet.
A man-made drainage way of parabolic or trapezoidal cross
section shaped to required dimensions and vegetated for safe disposal
of runoff (also known as a swale).
That portion of a right-of-way carrying surface drainage.
A condition, not economic in nature and not caused by the
applicant or developer, for which a modification may be requested.
A retention or detention pond.
An unincorporated association or not-for-profit corporation
whose membership consists of the lot owners of a residential development.
A homeowners' association shall also include a condominium unit
owners' association. All such associations shall comply with
the requirements for unit owners' associations contained in the
Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3101
et seq.
Infiltration rates of soils vary widely and are affected
by subsurface permeability as well as surface intake rates. Soils
are classified into four HSGs (A, B, C, and D) according to their
minimum infiltration rate, which is obtained for bare soil after prolonged
wetting. The NRCS defines the four groups and provides a list of most
of the soils in the United States and their group classification.
The soils in the area of the development site may be identified from
a soil survey report that can be obtained from local NRCS offices
or conservation district offices. Soils become less pervious as the
HSG varies from A to D (NRCS 3, 4).
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Any portion of a lot covered by impervious surface, including
buildings, structures, parking lots, parking areas and paved areas.
[Amended by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A surface that prevents the infiltration of water into the
ground. Impervious surfaces shall include, but not be limited to,
roofs, additional indoor living spaces, patios, garages, storage sheds
and similar structures, and any new streets, stone driveways, and
sidewalks. However, any surface designed, constructed and maintained
to permit infiltration as specified herein shall be considered pervious,
not impervious. For the purposes of this Chapter, a surface shall
not be considered impervious if such surface or area does not diminish
the capacity for infiltration of stormwater for storms up to, and
including, a two-year, twenty-four-hour storm event.
[Amended by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Pavements, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water mains, sanitary
sewers, storm sewers, stormwater management facilities, grading, street
signs, plantings and other items for the welfare of the property owners
and the public.
Any system of piping tanks, or other facilities serving a
single lot and collecting and disposing of sewage, in whole or in
part, into the soil and any waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
or by means of conveyance to another site for final disposition, and
which is located upon the lot which it serves.
The entrance of surface water into the soil, usually at the
soil-air interface.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A body of water flowing in a channel or bed composed primarily
of substrates associated with flowing water, which, during periods
of the year, is below the local water table and obtains its flow from
both surface runoff and groundwater discharges.
The York County Integrated Water Resources Plan, which plan
includes Act 167 plan elements and requirements.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A type of topography or landscape characterized by surface
depressions, sinkholes, rock pinnacles/uneven bedrock surface, underground
drainage, and caves. Karst landscapes are formed on carbonate rocks,
such as limestone or dolomite.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
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 non-residential 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.
Except as provided below, development in accordance with § 503(1.1)
of the Municipalities Planning Code.
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Land development shall not include the following:
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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.
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2.
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The addition of an accessory building, including farm buildings
on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal building with
a maximum square footage of 2,000 square feet and/or a height of no
more than 60 feet. Any accessory building less than 2,000 square feet
in area and less than 60 feet in height is specifically excluded from
the definition of land development. Additionally, a silo or grain
bin exceeding a height of 60 feet but subordinate to an existing,
principal agricultural structure shall be excluded from the definition
of land development.
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3.
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The addition or conversion of buildings or rides within the
confines of an enterprise that would be considered an amusement park.
For purposes of this subclause, 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.
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Any activity involving grading, tilling, digging or filling
of ground; stripping of vegetation; or any other activity which causes
land to be exposed to the danger of erosion.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner
or other person having a proprietary interest in land.
A professional landscape architect licensed as such in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Conduits connecting individual buildings to utility services
that are generally located within the street.
A fracture on the order of tens of kilometers long usually
extending to the basement below sedimentary rock.
A map showing the site with relation to adjoining areas.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed
or built upon as a unit.
CORNER LOTA lot at the junction of and abutting on two or more intersecting streets where the interior angle of intersection does not exceed 135°. A lot abutting a curved street shall be deemed a corner lot if the tangents to the curve at the points of intersection of the side lot lines with the street lines intersect at an interior angle of less than 135°.
DOUBLE-FRONTAGE LOTA lot, other than a corner lot, fronting on two streets.
FLAG LOTA lot or parcel that has been approved with access provided to the bulk of the lot by means of a narrow corridor. Said lot has less frontage on a public street than is normally required.
INTERIOR LOTAny lot other than a corner lot.
REVERSE-FRONTAGE LOTA lot extending between and having frontage on a major street and a minor street with vehicular access solely from the latter.
THROUGH LOTA lot extending between and having frontage on two streets.
The area contained within the property lines of individual
parcels of land, excluding any area within a street right-of-way,
but including the area of any easement.
A percentage which when multiplied by the lot area will determine
the permitted building coverage area.
A mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines, measured in the general direction of its side lot lines.
Lines forming the front, rear and sides of lots as described
in the deed of record. Any lot line that abuts a street or other public
way shall be measured from the street right-of-way.
On an interior lot, the lot line abutting the street; on
a corner or through lot, each lot line which abuts a street; on a
flag lot, the interior lot line most parallel to and nearest the street
from which access is obtained.
A lot line which does not intersect a front lot line and
is most distant from, and most parallel to, a front lot line. On corner
and through lots, the rear lot line shall be considered that area
between the principal structure and the property line directly opposite
the street of access. For the purposes of this chapter, where the
side lot lines of an interior lot meet in a point, the rear lot line
shall be assumed to be a line not less than 10 feet long drawn within
the lot between the two side lot lines, which is parallel to, or in
the event of a curved front lot line, equidistant to, to the front
lot line.
Any lot line that is not a front or rear lot line.
The required continuous distance between the side property lines (or, in the case of corner lots, between a front and side property line) measured along a single street right-of-way line. If a lot is traversed by a street right-of-way, whether existing or proposed, any principal building on said lot shall be located on a portion of that lot which contains the minimum lot width required by the Manheim Township Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27].
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more units designed
to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated
for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for
occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations,
and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erection thereon of a single mobile home.
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which have been so
designated and improved which contains two or more mobile home lots
for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
The granting of an exception to these regulations which in
the opinion of the Township Supervisors will not be detrimental to
the general welfare, impair the intent of those regulations or conflict
with the Comprehensive Plan.
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of July
31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as amended and reenacted, 53 P.S. § 10101
et seq.
An existing watercourse or channel which is not man-made
and contains a definite bed and banks which confine and conduct continuously
or periodically flowing water.
Any use other than a dwelling. An institutional use in which
persons may reside, such as a dormitory, prison, nursing home or hospital,
shall be considered a nonresidential use.
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (previously SCS).
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
National Wetland Inventory.
Operation and maintenance.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Operation and maintenance plan.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The control of runoff to allow water falling on a given site
to be absorbed or retained on site to the extent that after development
the peak rate of discharge leaving the site is not significantly greater
than if the site had remained undeveloped.
The owner of record of a parcel of land.
A building where passenger vehicles may be stored for short-term,
daily or overnight off-street parking.
An open lot where passenger vehicles may be stored for short-term,
daily or overnight off-street parking.
An off-street space available for the parking of a motor
vehicle and which, in this chapter, is held to be an area 10 feet
wide by 20 feet long, exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant
thereto and giving access thereto. Occupancy of one space shall not
restrict ingress or egress to another space.
The maximum rate of flow of water at a given point and time
resulting from a specified storm event.
The downward movement, under the influence of gravity, of
water under hydrostatic pressure through interstices of the soil or
rock.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Any area not defined as impervious.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The map or plan of a subdivision or land development, as
follows:
FINAL PLANA complete and exact subdivision and/or land development plan, including all supplementary data specified in Part 4 of this chapter.
IMPROVEMENT CONSTRUCTION PLANA complete and exact subdivision and/or land development plan, prepared in accordance with Part 4 of this chapter, the sole purpose of which is to permit the construction of only those improvements required by this chapter, as an alternative to guaranteeing the completion of those improvements by a corporate bond or other surety.
LOT ADD-ON PLANA complete and exact subdivision plan including all supplementary data specified in Part 4 of this chapter.
MINOR SUBDIVISIONA complete and exact subdivision plan including all supplementary data specified in Part 4 of this chapter.
PRELIMINARY PLANA subdivision and/or land development plan including all required supplementary data specified in Part 4 of this chapter, showing approximate locations.
RECORD PLANA final plan which contains the original endorsement of the local municipality and the Planning Commission which is intended to be recorded with the York County Recorder of Deeds.
REVISED FINAL PLANAny subdivision or proposed land development plan that changes or proposes to change property lines and/or public rights-of-way not in strict accordance with any approved plan, whether or not the approved plan has been recorded.
SEPARATION SUBDIVISIONA complete and exact subdivision plan including all supplementary data specified in Part 4 of this chapter.
SKETCH PLANAn informal plan, not necessarily to exact scale, indicating salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings with the general layout of a proposal prepared in accordance with Part 4 of this chapter.
The Manheim Township Planning Commission.
A revision to the Township's Official 537 Plan submitted
in connection with the request for approval of a subdivision or land
development in accordance with DEP regulations.
The map or plan of a subdivision or land development, whether
preliminary or final.
Persons who provide expert or professional advice, including
but not limited to architects, attorneys, certified public accountants,
engineers, geologists, land surveyors, landscape architects or planners,
and who are licensed or registered as such in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
An area of land subject to land disturbance or development
and within the jurisdiction of this chapter.
A municipal sewer system, or a comparable common or package
sanitary facility approved and permitted by the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection.
A municipal water supply system, or a comparable common water
facility approved and permitted by the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection.
A circular or square plot of a given area used to determine
the dominant plant species within a site.
Any person licensed by the State of Pennsylvania or otherwise
qualified by law to perform the work required by this Chapter.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Set of prints of the original facilities showing those changes
made during the construction process.
The Recorder of Deeds in and for York County, Pennsylvania.
An action or proposed action that has an impact upon stormwater
runoff and which is specified in § 510 of this chapter.
Activity involving earth disturbance subject to regulation
under 25 Pa. Code Chapter 92, 25 Pa. Code Chapter 102, or the Clean
Streams Law.[4]
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A location designated as the future location of an individual
on-lot sewage system that shall be installed should the initial individual
on-lot system installed or to be installed fail or otherwise become
inoperable. The location shall meet all the regulations of DEP and
all applicable Township ordinances for an individual on-lot sewage
system.
An impoundment in which stormwater is stored and not released
during a storm event. Stored water may be released from the basin
at some time after the end of a storm.
[Amended by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The volume of runoff that is captured and not released directly
into the surface waters of this Commonwealth during or after a storm
event.
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The average interval, in years, within which a storm event
of a given magnitude can be expected to occur one time. For example,
the twenty-five-year return period rainfall would be expected to occur
on average once every 25 years; or stated in another way, the probability
of a twenty-five-year storm occurring in any one year is 0.04, i.e.,
a four-percent chance.
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Land set aside for use as a public or private street, alley,
pedestrian walkway or other means of travel.
A best management practice that is an area of permanent vegetation
along surface waters. (Such areas serve as natural vegetative filters
between upland landscapes and waterways.)
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Any part of precipitation that flows over the land.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Soils or other materials transported by surface water as
a product of erosion.
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A temporary dam or barrier constructed across a waterway
or at other suitable locations to intercept the runoff and to trap
and retain the sediment.
The required horizontal distance between a setback line and
property or street line.
SETBACK, FRONTThe distance between the street right-of-way line and the front setback line projected the full width of the lot.
SETBACK LINEA line within a property and parallel to a property or street line that delineates the required minimum distance between a structure and that property or street line.
SETBACK, REARThe distance between the rear lot line and the rear setback line projected the full width of the lot.
SETBACK, SIDEThe distance between the side lot line and the side setback line projected from the front yard to the rear yard.
Runoff that flows over the ground surface with a relatively
thin, even, and uniform depth, and is neither concentrated nor channelized.
The maximum sheet flow length shall not exceed 150 feet.
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The length of road visible to the driver of a passenger vehicle
at any given point in the road when viewing is unobstructed by traffic.
A depression in the embankment of a pond or basin which is
used to pass peak discharge greater than the maximum design storm
controlled by the pond or basin.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A pipe or conduit, or a system of pipes, conduits, swales,
or other similar structures, including appurtenances, which carries
intercepted runoff and other drainage, but excludes domestic sewage,
industrial wastes and similar discharges.
[Amended by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Drainage runoff from the surface of the land resulting from
precipitation or snowmelt or ice melt.
A program of controls and measures designed to regulate the
quantity and quality of stormwater runoff from a development while
promoting the protection and conservation of groundwater and groundwater
recharge.
Is abbreviated as "BMPs" throughout this Chapter.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Any structure, natural or man-made, that, due to its condition,
design, or construction, conveys, stores, or otherwise affects stormwater
runoff. Typical stormwater management facilities include, but are
not limited to, detention and retention basins, open channels, storm
sewers, pipes, and infiltration facilities.
[Amended by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The plan prepared by the developer or his representative
indicating how stormwater runoff will be managed at the development
site in accordance with this Chapter. "Stormwater management plan"
will be designated as "SWM plan" throughout this Chapter. For all
NPDES permitted sites, the stormwater management plan shall include,
and be consistent with, the erosion and sediment control plan as submitted
to the York County Conservation District (YCCD) and/or DEP.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way, intended
primarily as a means of vehicular and pedestrian travel. Street includes
avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct
and any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic
or pedestrians whether public or private. Unless the existing streets
within the Township are officially classified, the following general
classifications will prevail:
ALLEYA local street which is used primarily for vehicle access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting a street, or for placement of utilities.
ARTERIAL STREET; HIGHWAYA street or road that is used primarily for fast or heavy traffic including all roads classified as main and secondary highways by the Department of Transportation.
COLLECTOR STREETA street which carries traffic from minor streets to the major system or arterial streets, including the principal entrance or circulation streets of a residential development and all streets within industrial and/or commercial subdivisions or developments.
CUL-DE-SACA street intersecting another street at one end and terminating at the other in a vehicular turnaround.
LOCAL STREETA street which is used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
PRIVATE STREETA street which is constructed in accordance with the applicable provisions of this chapter which is not owned by a public entity. Manheim Township shall not be responsible for any type of maintenance or snow removal on any private street.
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 midway of the 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.
A line defining the edge of a street right-of-way and separating
the street from abutting property or lots; commonly known as the "street
right-of-way line."
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
A developer.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for distribution
to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building or lot development;
provided, however, that the subdivision by lease of land for agricultural
purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new
street or easement of access or any residential dwelling, shall be
exempted.
A professional land surveyor licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Stormwater management.
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Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania, as represented
by the Board of Supervisors, or its duly authorized agents.
All contiguous land owned by the same landowner on February
7, 2002, which is or was contiguous except for the presence of public
or private roads and/or the presence of lots or parcels adversed from
the original parent tract since February 7, 2002.
Any portion or portions of the parent tract, area, lot, parcel,
project, property, site or any piece of land that is the subject of
an application under the jurisdiction of this chapter.
A line along which quadrants are placed at intervals.
A portable structure, primarily designed to provide temporary
living quarters for recreation, camping or travel purposes. In addition
to the above, any one of the following attributes is characteristic
of a travel trailer:
The unit is of such size or weight as not to require a special
highway movement permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
when self propelled, or when hauled by a standard motor vehicle on
a highway.
The unit is mounted or designed to be mounted on wheels.
The unit is designed to be loaded onto, or affixed to, the bed
and/or chassis of a truck.
The unit contains, or was designed to contain, temporary storage
of water and sewer.
The unit contains some identification by the manufacturer as
a travel trailer.
Land in parcels which is of sufficient size that could allow
for the future subdivision and/or development in accordance with the
terms of the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance.
A unit, the use of which is not subordinate or customarily
incidental to a principal unit. A unit of occupancy can be either
residential or nonresidential and can be an independent unit within
a structure or a separate detached structure. Types of units are as
follows:
HORIZONTALLY ATTACHED UNITA unit within a structure in which three or more units are attached by vertical walls and do not have horizontal divisions between units (e.g., townhouses, row houses, shopping center with multiple store fronts).
SEMIDETACHED UNITA unit within a structure in which two units are side by side, each having open space on three sides (e.g., a twin or semidetached dwelling).
SINGLE DETACHED UNITA unit that is completely surrounded by open space.
VERTICALLY ATTACHED UNITA unit within a structure in which two or more units are attached by horizontal divisions (e.g., multistory apartment building or multistory office building).
United States Department of Agriculture.
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A system of piping and appurtenances, whether municipally
or privately owned, designed for the collection and transmission of
liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
industrial plants and institutions to a central wastewater treatment
plant for treatment and discharge (not including septic tanks or subsurface
disposal systems).
A permanent or intermittent stream, river, brook, run, creek,
channel, swale, pond, lake or other body of surface water, carrying,
conveying or holding surface water, whether natural or man-made.
Region or area drained by a river, watercourse, or other
surface water of this Commonwealth.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
Any and all rivers, streams, creeks, rivulets, impoundments,
ditches, watercourses, storm sewers, lakes, dammed water, wetlands,
ponds, springs, and all other bodies or channels of conveyance of
surface and underground water, or parts thereof, whether natural or
artificial, within or on the boundaries of this Commonwealth.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
A system of piping and appurtenances, whether municipally
or privately owned, designed for the transmission and distribution
of potable water from a centralized water supply or source to residences,
commercial building, industrial plants or institutions (not including
individual on-lot wells).
Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or
groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and
that under normal circumstances do support a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil condition and as per
the current federal and state manual(s) for identifying and delineating
jurisdictional wetlands. Wetlands include, but are not limited to,
swamps, bogs, marshes and wet meadows.
Any area or stands of trees, the majority of which are greater
than six inches in caliper at grade and covering an area greater than
1/4 acre, or any stand or grove of mature trees without regard to
minimum area.
York County Conservation District.
[Added by Ord. 2012-1, 10/15/2012]
The Manheim Township Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27], as enacted by the Board of Supervisors and as may be amended from time to time.
