As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A right-of-way which provides secondary service access for
vehicles to the side or rear of abutting properties.
A tract of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded
by streets or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries,
railroad rights-of-way, waterways, or corporate boundary lines of
the Town.
A line beyond which the foundation wall and/or any enclosed
porch, vestibule or other enclosed portion of a building shall not
project as determined by the yard requirements.
The Town Council of Mount Airy.
The official major roads, highways, streets, and other ways
adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of Frederick and Carroll
Counties in accordance with Article 66B of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
The officially adopted master plans for the comprehensive
development of Frederick County and Carroll County, or any part of
such plans or any amendments thereto.
A public or private right-of-way which cuts through a block
and is used exclusively by pedestrians.
Calendar days.
The owner(s) or agent(s) under legal authority of the owner(s)
who undertakes to cause a parcel of land to be designed, subdivided,
developed, and recorded as a subdivision.
A grant by a property owner of the use of land for construction,
maintenance of facilities, utilities, drainage, or other use or access
without giving up title to the land.
Areas, which due to their physical or biological features,
provide important elements for the maintenance, expansion, and long-term
survival of threatened or endangered species listed in COMAR 08.03.08.
This area may include breeding, feeding, resting, migratory, or overwintering
areas. Physical or biological features include, but are not limited
to, structure and composition of the vegetation; faunal community;
soils, water chemistry and quality; and geologic, hydrogeologic, and
microclimatic factors.
Changes and additions to land necessary to prepare it for
building development sites and future use, including street paving
and curbing, grading, monuments, drainageways, sewers, fire hydrants,
water mains, sidewalks, and other public works and appurtenances.
A parcel or portion of land separated from other parcels
or portions, either by descriptions, as on a subdivision plat or a
recorded survey map, or by metes and bounds, for the purpose of transfer,
sale, lease or other changes in ownership or use or to be occupied
by a building and its accessory buildings together with open spaces
as required.
The total horizontal area included within the rear, side
and front lot or proposed street lines of the lot excluding any streets
or highways, whether dedicated or not dedicated to public use, but
including off-street automobile parking areas and areas of easements.
An interior lot, fronting on two parallel or approximately
parallel streets.
The Master Plan of Mount Airy which consists of maps, data
and other descriptive matter, as a guide for the physical development
of the Town or any portion thereof, including any amendments, extensions
or additions thereto adopted by the Commission and the Town Council,
or public open spaces, public building sites, routes for public utilities,
zoning districts or other similar information.
An area defined under COMAR, Title 08.05.04.01, that is generally
inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency
and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances
does support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life
in saturated soil conditions, commonly known as "hydrophytic vegetation."
(COMAR + CC)
That area which, assuming ultimate development of its watershed
based on current zoning, would be inundated by water runoff from the
one-hundred-year storm.
A parcel of land within a subdivision which has been included
on a preliminary or final plat but not designated as a buildable lot
due to insufficient size and/or frontage or peculiar site or topographical
problems. Outlots can be shown only for the purpose of providing access
to adjoining properties or where necessary to provide for the extension
or continuation of future street pattern.
A surety bond or cash deposit made out to the Town of Mount
Airy in an amount equal to the full cost of the improvements which
are required by this chapter, and said surety bond or cash deposit
being legally sufficient to secure to the Town that said improvements
will be constructed in accordance with this chapter.
The Planning Commission of the Town of Mount Airy, Maryland.
Areas with a slope of greater than 25%.
That part of a watercourse, either naturally or artificially
created, that contains intermittent or perennial base flow of groundwater
origin. Ditches that convey surface runoff exclusively from storm
events are not included in this definition.
An area which extends a minimum of 50 feet from the top of
each stream bank along both sides of a stream.
A public or dedicated way, or a public proposed right-of-way,
widening or extension of an existing street or public way shown on
any plan approved by the Commission which serves as a primary means
of access to abutting lands.
A street which, in addition to providing ingress to properties
abutting thereon, is intended to collect traffic from or distribute
it to a series of local access streets within a neighborhood.
A street intended to serve and provide access exclusively
to the properties abutting thereon and not to be used as a channel
for through traffic.
Any street which is under the jurisdiction of an individual,
corporation, or trustee, or any street which is privately owned, established,
constructed, or maintained.
A road not serving as a collector road, but merely providing
access to properties fronting on a highway, which road is contiguous
with and parallel to the major highway. "Adjacent" here shall mean
that no structure shall be built between the service road and the
major highway.
The division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two
or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of sale or of building development. It
includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates
to the process of resubdividing or to the land or territory subdivided.
A regulated area, 25 feet in width, surrounding a nontidal
wetland, measured from the outer edge of the nontidal wetland.
