As used in these regulations, words expressed in the singular include their plural meanings; and words expressed in the plural include their singular meanings. The word "person" includes a corporation, unincorporated association and a partnership, as well as an individual. The words "building" and "street" are used generally and shall be construed as if followed by the phrase "or part thereof." The word "may" is permissive; the words "shall" and "will" are mandatory, subject to the provisions of § 200-40 hereof.
[Amended 5-19-1983; 10-4-1989]
The following words or phrases, when used in these regulations, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning. Any word or term not defined herein shall be used with a meaning of standard usage. Additional definitions now set forth in the revised code that are not set forth hereinafter, either in their revised form or as is, are hereby incorporated by reference to the same as they appear in such code, 53 P.S. § 10107, to be used as set forth therein in the use of and interpretation of this chapter.
Any person, other than the developer, who, acting for the developer, submits to the Commission and Board of Supervisors plans for the purpose of obtaining approval thereof.
A right-of-way providing secondary vehicular access to the side or rear of two or more properties.
See "street."
An area bounded by streets.
A structure or any part thereof having a roof which is used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property.
A line within a property defining the required minimum distance between any structure and the adjacent street line.
The portion of a street or alley intended for vehicular use.
The Chairman of the Eldred Township Planning Commission.
An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections defined by two street lines and by a line of sight between two points on the street lines at a given distance from the intersection.
See "street."
The Eldred Township Planning Commission, unless otherwise noted.
The Eldred-Upper Fairfield Joint Comprehensive Plan.
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, unless otherwise noted.
A street intersecting another street at one end and terminating at the other in a vehicular turnaround.
The deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for any general and public uses, reserving to himself no other rights than are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public uses to which the property has been devoted.
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.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations.
A lot with front and rear street frontage.
Any ditch, gutter, pipe, 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.
A minor vehicular right-of-way providing access between a street and a parking area or garage within a lot or property.
Any structure or part thereof designed to be occupied as living quarters as a single housekeeping unit.
A limited right of use granted in private land for public or quasi-public purposes.
A civil engineer licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, duly appointed as engineer for Eldred Township.
Same as "flood-prone area."
A relatively flat or lowland area adjoining a stream, river or watercourse, which is subject to partial or complete inundation; or, any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source; for purposes of this chapter, the 100-year flood area.
Any combination of changes, additions, or adjustments to structures which makes them watertight, i.e., substantially impermeable to the passage of water, to the level of the 100-year flood and with structural components having the capability of resisting the hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and effects of buoyancy.
The channel of a river or the watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved to carry and discharge the 100-year flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot at any point.
The Eldred Township Board of Supervisors.
A street parallel and adjacent to a property line having a lesser right-of-way width than required for satisfactory improvement and use of the street.
Those physical additions, installations and changes required to render land suitable for the use proposed.
A right-of-way easement for pedestrian travel across or within a block.
Any of the following activities shall constitute land development:
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 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
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.
Development in accordance with the exclusion of certain activities from the definition of land development as set forth in detail in 53 P.S. § 10503(1.1).
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 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.
The area contained within the property lines of the individual parcels of land as shown on a plan, excluding any area within a street right-of-way but including the area of any easement or future right-of-way.
Any boundary line of a lot.
A lot which has an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of two street lines. A lot abutting upon a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if the tangents to the curve at the points beginning with the lot or at the points of intersection of the side lot lines with the street right-of-way lines intersect at an interior angle of less than 135°.
Minor streets, parallel and adjacent to major traffic streets providing access to abutting properties and control of intersections with the major traffic street.
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 or contiguous parcels of land which have been so designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
A building providing separate dwelling units for two or more families.
A complete and exact subdivision or development plan, prepared for official recording, to define property rights and proposed streets and other improvements.
A tentative subdivision or development plan, in lesser detail than a final plan, showing the salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and approximate proposed street and lot layout as a basis for consideration prior to preparation of a final plan.
An exact copy of the approved final plan on map material acceptable to the Lycoming County Recorder of Deeds.
An informal plan, not necessarily to scale, indicating the salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of the proposed subdivision or land development.
Any subdivision or transfer of land laid out on a plan approved by the Commission which changes or proposes to change property lines and/or public rights-of-way not in strict accordance with the approved plan.
A lot extending between and having frontage on a major street and a minor street with vehicular access solely from the latter.
Land set aside for use as a street, alley or other means of travel.
The Township Secretary of the Eldred Township Board of Supervisors or such other officer the Board may designate.
Any sewer, sewage system, sewage treatment works or parts thereof designed, intended or constructed for the collection, treatment or disposal of liquid waste (including industrial waste).
The length of street, measured along the center line, which is continuously visible from any point three feet above center line.
Includes only street, 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. Streets are further classified as follows:
Arterial street. Streets serving large numbers of high-speed traffic and connecting population and employment centers and which are so designated in the Comprehensive Plan.
Collector street. Streets which, in addition to giving access to abutting properties, intercept local streets and provide routes to community facilities and arterial streets and which are so designated in the Comprehensive Plan.
Local street. Streets primarily used for access to abutting properties and generally serving internally developed areas.
The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way; provided that, where a future right-of-way width for a road or street has been established, then that width shall determine the location of the street line.
Any man-made object having an ascertaining stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
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.
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.
MAJOR SUBDIVISIONA subdivision involving one or more of the following conditions:
Three or more lots;
More than two lots on a private right-of-way; and/or
Any public improvement proposed for dedication to the Township.
MINOR SUBDIVISIONA subdivision which is not a major subdivision.
The Eldred Township Board of Supervisors.
Land in parcels sufficiently large for future subdivision which is presently in agriculture, woodland or lying fallow.
Any activity carried on or intended to be carried on in a building or other structure or on a tract of land.
Any water works, water supply works or water distribution system or part thereof designed, intended or constructed to provide or distribute potable water. If water is to be provided by any means other than by private wells owned and maintained by the individual owners of lots within a subdivision or development, applicants shall provide evidence to both the Township Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors that the subdivision or development is to be supplied by a certified public utility, a bona fide cooperative association of lot owners, or by a municipal corporation, authority or utility, such evidence to be in one of the forms as provided for in 53 P.S. § 10503.1.
An open space unobstructed from the ground up on the same lot with a structure, extending along a lot line or street line and inward to the structure. The size of a required yard shall be measured as the shortest distance between the structure and a lot line or street line.