Unless the context otherwise indicates, the following definitions shall be used in the interpretation and construction of this Part 4. Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the word "building" includes the word "structure"; the word "person" includes a corporation as well as an individual; the word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word "occupied" includes the words "designed or intended to be occupied"; the word "used" includes the words "arranged, designed, constructed, altered, converted, rented, leased or intended to be used"; the word "abut" includes the words "directly across from"; and the word "shall" is mandatory and not optional.
Except as otherwise provided herein, all definitions
promulgated in the ordinance of the Borough of Ridgefield establishing
a Planning Board and a Zoning Board of Adjustment pursuant to the
provisions of Chapter 291 of the Laws of New Jersey 1975; providing
for the powers of said Boards; fixing the procedures governing applications
to said Boards and appeals therefrom; and providing for the continuance
of existing ordinances (Ord. No. 1050)[1] or any other development regulation of the Borough of Ridgefield, as amended, supplemented and revised, are hereby incorporated and made a part of this Part 4.
In addition to the definitions established in § 390-123 herein, the following definitions are also made a part of this Part 4:
Any existing or proposed county road, shown on the adopted
County Master Plan or Official Map, which adjoins a lot or parcel
of land submitted for subdivision or site plan approval.
Added pavement width at an intersection or other point of
access to a public or private street, designated to enable vehicles
entering the roadway to attain a speed which will allow entering vehicles
to merge safely with through traffic.
The absence or presence of drainage facilities or drainage
easements in a drainageway leading to, along or through a street,
road, drainage structure or to private property, either within or
exterior to a proposed subdivision or site plan, of such location,
size, design, construction or condition which will not provide adequately
for storm drainage or which will cause flooding, erosion, silting
or other damage effects to a street or road or drainage structure
or private property or which threatens to damage private property
as a result of such adverse storm drainage condition.
A structure having a clear span in excess of 20 feet, designed
to convey vehicles and/or pedestrians over a watercourse, railroad,
street or other obstacle or depression.
A structure designed to convey a watercourse under a driveway,
road, railroad or pedestrian walk, not incorporated in a closed drainage
system and having a clear span of 20 feet or less.
Added pavement width at an intersection or other point of
access from a public or private road, designed to enable vehicles
leaving the street or roadway to make the necessary reduction in speed
without interfering with the free movement of through traffic.
A dedication of land to the Borough or county, whichever
is applicable, for the installation of utilities or the construction,
widening, repairing, maintaining or improving of said road and for
the construction, reconstruction or alteration of facilities related
to the safety, convenience or carrying capacity of said road, including
curbing, pedestrian walkways, drainage facilities and traffic control
devices.
The land required for the installation and/or maintenance
of stormwater sewers, culverts, bridges, drainage ditches or a watercourse
for preserving the channel and/or providing for the flow therein.
A means of access for vehicles to or from a property to a
roadway.
Any security, other than cash, which may be accepted by a
municipality for the maintenance of any improvements required by N.J.S.A.
40:55D-3 through 55D-7.
The map adopted by resolution of the Board of Chosen Freeholders
of the county pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:27-5, as may be amended and
supplemented.
The map adopted by ordinance by the governing body of the
Borough of Ridgefield pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-32 et seq., as may
be amended and supplemented.
For purposes of notice, any applicant for development, the
owners of the subject property and all owners of property and government
agencies entitled to notice under Section 7.[1]
Any security that is acceptable to the Borough of Ridgefield
which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement that certain improvements
be made before the granting of approval of a site plan, provided that
not more than 10% of the total performance guaranty shall be required
to be paid in cash, and further provided that the total amount of
the performance guaranty shall not exceed the provisions of N.J.S.A.
40:55D-53a(1).
An area to be developed as a single entity according to a
plan containing residential housing units which have a common or public
open space area as an appurtenance.
The number of dwelling units per gross acre of residential
land area, including streets, easements and open space portions of
a development.
A triangular-shaped easement established at intersections in accordance with the requirements of this Part 4, in which nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to obstruct vision between a height of two feet six inches above the center-line grade of either street. The Borough shall have the right of entry to remove any obstruction to vision within the sight easement area not conforming to the standard of this definition, following due notice to the property owner.
A development of one or more lots on which is shown the existing
and proposed conditions of the lot, including but not necessarily
limited to topography, vegetation, drainage, floodplains, marshes
and waterways; the location of all existing and proposed buildings,
drives, parking spaces, walkways, means of ingress and egress, drainage
facilities, utility services, landscaping, structures and signs, lighting
and screening devices; and any other information that may be reasonably
required in order to make an informed determination pursuant to an
ordinance requiring review and approval of site plans by the Planning
Board adopted pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-37 et seq.
Any natural or artificial collection of water, whether permanent
or temporary.
Any natural swale, ditch, gully, stream, brook or river wherein
water flows ordinarily, frequently or infrequently but not necessarily
continuously. This definition includes watercourses which have been
artificially treated, realigned or improved.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Section 7 of the Municipal
Land Use Law, P.L. 1975, c. 291 (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq).
