As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
- ALLEY
- A minor right-of-way, publicly or privately owned, primarily
for service access to the back or sides of properties.
- BLOCK
- An area bounded by streets.
- BUILDING SETBACK LINE
- A line within a property designating the minimum distance
that must be provided between any building or structure and an adjacent
street right-of-way and/or side and rear property lines.
- CARTWAY
- The portion of a street or alley right-of-way which is improved,
designated, or intended for vehicular use.
- CLEAR SIGHT TRIANGLE
- An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections defined
by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the intersection
of the street center lines.
- COMMISSION
- The Duncannon Borough Planning Commission.
- COUNCIL
- The Duncannon Borough Council.
- CROSSWALK
- A publicly or privately owned right-of-way for pedestrian
use extending from a street into a block or across a block to another
street.
- DEVELOPER
- Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with permission
of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of
land or a land development.
- DWELLING
- A house, apartment building or other structure used primarily
for human habitation. The word "dwelling" shall not include hotels,
motels or other structures used for transient residence, nor shall
it include mobile homes unless they are specifically included.
- A.
— A building or portion thereof designed
exclusively for residential occupancy by one family and having cooking
facilities.
- B.
— A building designed for or occupied
exclusively as a residence for only one family.
- C.
— A building designed for or occupied
exclusively as a residence for two or more families, with separate
housekeeping and cooking facilities for each family.
- EASEMENT, UTILITY
- A right-of-way granted for the limited use of land for public
or quasi-public purposes.
- ENGINEER
- A registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania designated
by the municipality to perform the duties of engineer as herein specified.
- ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS
- The engineering specifications of the Borough regulating
the installation of any required improvement or for any facility installed
by any owner, subject to public use.
- EROSION
- The removal of surface materials by the action of natural
elements.
- EXCAVATION
- Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar
material is dug into, cut, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or bulldozed. It shall include the conditions resulting
therefrom.
- A.
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material
is placed, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported or moved to a new location
above the natural surface of the ground or on top of the stripped
surface. It shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
- B.
The difference in elevation between a point on the original
ground and a designated point of higher elevation of the final grade.
- C.
The material used to make fill.
- A.
A relatively flat or low land area adjoining a river, stream,
watercourse or lake, which is subject to partial or complete inundation;
- B.
An area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff
of surface waters from any source.
- IMPROVEMENTS
- Those physical additions and changes to the land that may
be necessary to produce usable and desirable lots.
- A.
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts
or parcels of land for any purposes involving:
- (1)
A group of two or more buildings; or
- (2)
The division or allocation of land or space 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.
- LANDOWNER
- 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 conditions), 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 shall be deemed
to be a landowner for the purpose of this chapter.
- LOT
- A plot or parcel of land which is, or in the future may be,
offered for sale, conveyance, transfer or improvement.
- 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, REVERSE FRONTAGE
- A lot extending between and having frontage on an arterial
street and a minor street, and with vehicular access solely from the
latter.
- LOT, THROUGH OR DOUBLE FRONTAGE
- A lot with front and rear street frontage.
- MOBILE HOME
- A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, office or place of assembly, contained in one unit, or
in two 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.
- MOBILE HOME LOT
- 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, which is leased by the
park owner to the occupants of the mobile home erected on the lot.
- MOBILE HOME PARK
- A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned
and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use,
consisting of two or more mobile home lots.
- PLAN, FINAL
- A complete and exact subdivision plan prepared for official
recording as required by statute.
- PLAN, PRELIMINARY
- A tentative subdivision plan, in lesser detail than the final
plan, indicating the approximate proposed layouts of a subdivision
as a basis for consideration prior to preparation of the final plan.
- PLAN, SKETCH
- 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.
- A.
Parks, playgrounds, and other public areas; and
- B.
Sites for schools, sewage treatment, refuse disposal and other
publicly owned or operated facilities.
- PUBLIC NOTICE
- Notice published once each week for two successive weeks
in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Such notice
shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature
of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication
shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not
be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
- RESUBDIVISION
- The replotting of a recorded subdivision, in whole or in
part, by a redesign of lots, by change of size, area or by street
layout.
- RIGHT-OF-WAY, STREET
- A public thoroughfare for vehicular traffic and/or pedestrian
traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway,
road, avenue, boulevard, land, alley, or however designated.
- RUNOFF
- 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.
- SEDIMENTATION
- The process by which mineral or organic matter is accumulated
or deposited by moving wind, water, or gravity. Once this matter is
deposited (or remains suspended in water), it is usually referred
to as "sediment."
- SIGHT DISTANCE
- 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.
- SLOPE
- 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.
- STREETS
- A public right-of-way which affords primary vehicular and
pedestrian access to abutting properties, including street, highway,
thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, alley, or however
designated.
- A.
— A major street or highway with fast
or heavy traffic volumes of considerable continuity and used primarily
as a traffic artery for intercommunications among large areas.
- B.
— A major street or highway which carries
traffic from local streets to arterial streets, including the principal
entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation
within such a development.
- C.
— A minor street used primarily for access
to abutting properties.
- D.
— A street intersecting another street at one
end and terminating at the other in a vehicular turnaround.
- E.
— A minor street which is parallel
and adjacent to limited-access highways or arterial streets and which
provides access to abutting properties and protection from through
traffic.
- SUBDIVIDER
- The owner or authorized agent of the owner of a lot, tract,
or parcel of land to be subdivided for sale or development under the
terms of this chapter.
- SUBDIVISION (see "land development.")
- 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, transfer of ownership or building
or lot development; provided, however, that the division of land for
agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving
any new street or easement of access, shall be exempted.
- SURFACE DRAINAGE PLAN
- A plan showing all present and proposed grades and facilities
for stormwater drainage.
- TOP SOIL
- 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."
- UNDEVELOPED LAND
- Any lot, tract or parcel of land which has not been graded
or in any other manner prepared for the construction of a building.
- WATERCOURSE
- A natural stream of water, river, brook, creek, or a channel
of perceptible extent, with definite bed and banks to confine and
conduct continuously or periodically flowing water.