A.
Unless a contrary intention clearly appears, the following
words and phrases shall have, for the purpose of these regulations,
the meanings in the following clauses.
B.
For the purpose of these regulations, words and terms
used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
(1)
Words used in the present tense include the future.
(2)
The singular includes the plural.
(3)
The word "person" includes a corporation, institution,
partnership, and association as well as the individual.
(4)
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
(5)
The word "Commission" and the words "Planning and
Zoning Commission" always mean the Federalsburg Planning and Zoning
Commission.
(6)
The word "county" shall always mean Caroline County.
(7)
The word "Town" shall always mean the Town of Federalsburg.
C.
Any word or term not defined herein shall be used
with a meaning of standard usage.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A minor way which is used primarily for vehicular service
access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting a
street.
Any person who submits to the Mayor and Council and the Planning
and Zoning Commission subdivision plans for the purpose of obtaining
approval thereof.
A structure having a roof which is used or intended to be
used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or property.
The word "building" shall include any part thereof.
The front, rear and side setback line of the minimum required
front yards. The building setback line shall be measured from the
future right-of-way line.
A grant of the use of a parcel of land to the use of the
public, a corporation, or person for a specific purpose, without including
title to the land.
Those physical additions, installations, and changes, such
as streets, streetlights, fire hydrants, curbs and guttering, sidewalks,
water mains, sewers, drainage facilities, for the use proposed and
which meet all ADA requirements.
A parcel of land used or set aside and available for use
as the site of one or more buildings and buildings accessory thereto
or for any other purpose, in one ownership and not divided by a street
nor including any land within the limits of a public or private street
right-of-way.
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a
street, alley, crosswalk, sanitary or storm sewer, drainage ditch,
or for another special use. The usage of the term "right-of-way" for
land plotting purposes in the Town shall mean that every right-of-way
hereafter established and shown on the final plat is to be separate
and distinct from lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way, and
not included with the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels.
A public or private way used or intended to be used for passage
or travel by automotive vehicles and pedestrians and to provide access
to abutting properties.
The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street
line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line, provided that
where a future right-of-way width for a street has been officially
established, the street line shall be the side of the future right-of-way
so established.
The division of a single lot, tract, or parcel
of land or part thereof into two or more lots, tracts, or parcels
of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer
of ownership or of building development.
The term "subdivision" includes resubdivision
and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process
of subdividing or to the land subdivided.
Resubdivision is further subdivision of a piece
of land previously subdivided only adding footage to adjoining properties.
The division of a tract or parcel of land into four or fewer
lots, tracts, or parcels of land for the purpose, whether immediate
or future, of transfer of ownership or of building development, provided
that the proposed lots, tracts, or parcels of land thereby created
have frontage on an improved public street or streets, and providing
further that there is not created by the subdivision any new street
or streets.
