For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ADMINISTRATOR. The officer as appointed by the Antis Township Board of Supervisors to administer these regulations and to assist administratively the other Boards and officers of the township.
ALLEY or SERVICE DRIVE. A minor right-of-way, privately or publicly owned, primarily for service access to the back or sides of properties.
APPLICANT. A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has filed an application for subdivision and/or development, including his or her heirs, successors and assigns.
APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT. Every application, whether preliminary, tentative or final, required to be filed and approved prior to the start of construction or development, including, but not limited to, an application for a building permit, for the approval of a subdivision plat or plan or for the approval of a development plan.
APPOINTING AUTHORITY. The Antis Township Board of Supervisors.
AUTHORITY. A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the act of May 2, 1945 (Pub. L. No. 382, No. 164), known as the “Municipality Authorities Act of 1945,” 53 P.S. §§ 5601 et seq..
BLOCK. A tract of land, a tot or a group of lots bounded by streets, public parks, railroad rights-of-way, watercourses and boundary lines of the township, non-subdivided land, other definite barriers or by a combination of the above.
BMPS or BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. Activities, facilities, measures or procedures used to minimize accelerated erosion and sedimentation to protect, maintain, reclaim and restore the quality of waters and the existing and designated uses of waters within the commonwealth.
BOARD. Any body granted jurisdiction under a land use ordinance or under this chapter to render final adjudications.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. The Board of Supervisors of Antis Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
BUILDING. A combination of materials to form a permanent structure having walls and a roof, including, but not limited to, all mobile homes.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE. The line within a property parallel to and defining the required minimum distance between the foremost part of any building and the adjacent right-of-way or property boundary line.
CAMPGROUND. Any portion of land used for the purpose of providing a space or spaces for trailers or tents for camping purposes, regardless of whether a fee has been charged for the leasing, renting or occupancy of such space.
CAMPSITE. Any site intended to be used for temporary and/or seasonal use for camping, inclusive of the area required to sustain a tent, camper, motor home or other temporary camping facility.
CARTWAY (ROADWAY). The portion of a street right-of-way, paved or unpaved, intended for vehicular traffic.
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 centerlines.
COMMERCE PARK. A tract of land that has been planned, developed and operated as an integrated facility intended for a number of non-retail professional, business, personal and other service uses, with special measures for traffic circulation, parking, utilities and compatibility.
COMMON OPEN SPACE. A parcel or parcels of land, an area of land, an area of water or a combination of land and water within a development site designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents of a (the planned residential) development, not including streets, off-street parking areas and areas set aside for public facilities.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The complete plan plus any amendments or any of its component parts for the development of the county and the township providing for the continuing orderly development of the municipality and being recognized by the governing bodies of the county as the official plan, including such elements as community development objectives, plans and policies for use of the land for housing, for community facilities, for transportation and for plan implementation.
CONDOMINIUM. Ownership in common with others of a parcel of land and certain parts of a building thereon which would normally be used by all the occupants, together with individual ownership in fee of a particular unit or apartment in such building or on such parcel of land, and may include dwellings, offices and other types of space in commercial and industrial buildings or on real property.
CONSTRUCTION PLAN. The maps or drawings accompanying a subdivision or development plan and showing the specific location and design of improvements to be installed in the subdivision in accordance with the requirements of the Board of Supervisors as a condition of the approval of the plan.
COUNTY. Blair County, Pennsylvania.
COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION. The Blair County Planning Commission.
CROSSWALK. A right-of-way, municipally or privately owned, intended to provide access for pedestrians.
CUL-DE-SAC. A short street having one end open to traffic and being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
CULVERT. A pipe, conduit or similar enclosed structure, including appurtenant works, which carries surface water.
CUT. An excavation; the difference between a point on the original ground and designated point of lower elevation on the final grade; also, the material removed in excavation.
DECISION. Final adjudication of any board or other body granted jurisdiction under any land use ordinance or this chapter to do so, either by reason of the grant of exclusive jurisdiction or by reason of appeals from determinations. All decisions shall be appealable to the Court of Common Pleas of the county.
DEDICATION. The deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for any general and public use, reserving to himself or herself no other rights than those that are compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public uses to which the property has been devoted.
DENSITY.
HIGH-DENSITY. Those residential subdivisions and land developments in which the density is equal to or greater than four dwelling units per acre.
LOW-DENSITY. Those residential districts in which the density is between one and three dwelling units per acre.
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (DEP). The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, its bureaus, departments or divisions.
DESIGN STORM. The magnitude of precipitation from a storm event measured in probability of occurrence (e.g., 50-year storm) and duration (e.g., 24-four hour) and used in computing stormwater management control systems.
DETENTION BASIN. A basin designed to retard stormwater runoff by temporarily storing the runoff and releasing it at a predetermined rate. A DETENTION BASIN can be designed to drain completely after a storm event or it can be designed to contain a permanent pool of water.
DETERMINATION. Final action by an officer, body or agency charged with the administration of any land use ordinance or applications thereunder, except the governing body and the Local Planning Commission, only to the extent the planning agency is charged with final decision on preliminary or final plans under the subdivision and land development ordinance or planned residential development provisions. DETERMINATION shall be applicable only to the boards designated as having jurisdiction for such appeal.
DEVELOPER. A person, firm, partnership, corporation, trust or authorized agent thereof proposing to divide land so as to constitute a subdivision or engage in land development. (See also SUBDIVIDER.)
DEVELOPMENT. Any human-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures; the placement of mobile homes; the construction, extension and/or installation of streets and other paving, utilities, mining, dredging, filling, grading, excavation or drilling operations; and the subdivision of land.
DEVELOPMENT PLAN. The provision for development, including: a planned residential development; a plat of subdivision; all covenants relating to use, location and bulk of buildings and other structures; intensity of use or density of development; streets, ways and parking facilities; common open space and public facilities. The phrase PROVISIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN, when used in this chapter, shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.
DRAINAGE. The removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains, grading or other means, and includes control of runoff to minimize erosion and sedimentation during and after construction or development.
DRAINAGE FACILITY. Any ditch, gutter, culvert, storm sewer or other structure designed, intended or constructed for the purpose of carrying, diverting or controlling surface water or groundwater.
DRAINAGE RIGHT-OF-WAY. The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers or drainage ditches or required along a natural stream or watercourse for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein to safeguard the public against flood damage.
DRIVEWAY. A private vehicular passageway providing access between a street and a private parking area or private garage.
DWELLING. Any building which is designed for human living quarters.
DWELLING or DWELLING UNIT. Any structure, or part thereof, designed to be occupied as living quarters as a single housekeeping unit.
(1) APARTMENT. A dwelling unit separated horizontally and/or vertically from one or more other units in a structure.
(2) DETACHED HOUSE. A dwelling unit occupying the whole of a freestanding residential structure.
(3) DUPLEX. A residential structure divided horizontally into two dwelling units.
(4) ROW HOUSE or TOWNHOUSE. A structure with two or more party walls of three or more units not having any horizontal division between units.
(5) TWIN OR SEMIDETACHED HOUSE. A residential structure occupied by two dwelling units with a common wall.
(a) APARTMENT HOUSE OR MULTIPLE DWELLING UNIT. A residential structure containing three or more apartments.
(b) GARDEN APARTMENT. An apartment house not exceeding three stories in height.
(c) HIGH-RISE APARTMENT. An apartment house exceeding three stories in height.
EARTH DISTURBANCE ACTIVITY. A construction or other human activity which disturbs the surface of the land, including, but not limited to, clearing and grubbing, grading, excavations, embankments, land development, mineral extraction, and the moving, depositing, stockpiling, or storing of soil, rock or earth materials.
EASEMENT. A right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for specific use of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose and within which the owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structure, but shall have the right to make any other use of the land which is not inconsistent with the rights of the grantee.
ENGINEER. A person licensed to practice in the commonwealth as a registered professional engineer.
ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS. The engineering criteria of the township regulating the installation of any improvement or facility.
EROSION. The removal of surface materials by the action of natural elements.
EROSION, ACCELERATED. Erosion of the soil or rock over and above normal erosion brought about by changes in the natural cover or ground conditions, including changes caused by human activity.
EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL PLAN. A site-specific plan identifying BMPs to minimize accelerated erosion and sedimentation.
EXCAVATION. Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material is dug into, cut, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced, relocated or bulldozed. It shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
FILL. Sand, gravel, earth or other material placed or deposited so as to form an embankment or raise the elevation of the land surface. The term includes material used to replace an area with aquatic life with dry land or to change the bottom elevation of a surface water area.
FINANCIAL SECURITY. Any form of security, including a cash deposit, surety bond, collateral, property or instrument of credit and restrictive of escrow accounts from federal or commonwealth chartered lending institutions in an amount and form satisfactory to the Board of Supervisors and to be used wherever required by these regulations. (See §§ 155.020 through 155.033.)
FLOODPLAIN. The lands adjoining a river or stream that have been or may be expected to be inundated by floodgates in a 100-year-frequency flood.
GOVERNING BODY. The Council in cities, boroughs and incorporated towns; the Board of Commissioners in townships of the first class; the Board of Supervisors in townships of the second class; the Board of Commissioners in counties of the second class through eighth classes; or as may be designated in the law providing for the form of government.
GRADE. The slope of a road, street or other public way specified in percentage terms.
HEARING. An administrative proceeding conducted by a board pursuant to § 909.1 of Act 170 of 1988 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. §§ 10101 et seq.
INDUSTRIAL. Those fields of economic activity, including construction contractors, mining, manufacturing, transportation, communication, electric, gas, sanitary services and wholesale trade.
INDUSTRIAL PARK. A tract of land that has been planned, developed and operated as an integrated facility intended for a number of individual industrial uses, with special measures for traffic circulation, parking, utilities and compatibility.
INFILTRATION STRUCTURES. A structure designed to direct runoff into the ground (e.g., French drains, seepage pits, dry wells and seepage trenches).
LAND DEVELOPMENT.
(1) Any of the following activities which involves the improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
(a) 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
(b) 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.
(2) A subdivision of land.
(3) For the purposes of this chapter, LAND DEVELOPMENT specifically excludes the addition of an accessory building, including farm buildings, on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal building if the cumulative area of the accessory building(s) is less than 5,000 square feet. A building shall be considered to be of an accessory nature if its use relates to a primary building and is either on the same parcel as the primary building or is on a separate parcel but within 50 feet of the boundary of the parcel on which the primary building sits. Tilling activities related to farming or gardening is also specifically excluded from the definition of LAND DEVELOPMENT.
(4) A valuable addition made to a property or an amelioration in its condition, amounting to more than repairs or replacement of waste, intending to enhance the value, beauty or utility of the property or adapting it for a newer or further purpose.
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 condition), a lessee if he or she is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner or other person having a proprietary interest in land.
LAND USE ORDINANCE. Any ordinance or map adopted pursuant to the authority granted in Articles IV, V, VI and VII of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247, 53 P.S. §§ 10101 et seq., as amended.
LOT. A tract or parcel of land, regardless of size, intended for transfer of ownership, use, lease, improvements or development, regardless of how it is conveyed. LOT shall mean parcel, plot, site or any similar term which shall not be further subdivided.
LOT AREA. The horizontal area contained within the property lines of a parcel of land as shown on a subdivision plan, excluding space within any street, but including the area of any easement.
LOT, CORNER. A lot situated at the intersection of two streets, the interior angle of such intersection not exceeding 135 degrees.
LOT, FLAG. A lot which fronts a minimum of 15 feet upon a street and extending back therefrom at a minimum width of 15 feet, so as to provide each such lot with access, which is used solely and exclusively for ingress, egress and regress from such lot to such street.
LOT, FRONTAGE. That side of a lot abutting on a street or way, and ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the ordinary side of a corner lot.
LOT, INTERIOR. A lot having side lot lines which do not abut on a street.
LOT OF RECORD. Any lot which, individually or as part of a subdivision, has been recorded in the office of the Blair County Recorder of Deeds.
LOT, REVERSE FRONTAGE. A lot extending between and having frontage on an arterial and a minor street with vehicular access solely from the latter.
LOT, THROUGH OR DOUBLE FRONTAGE. A lot with both front and rear street frontage.
MAINTENANCE GUARANTY. Any security, other than cash, which may be accepted by the township for the maintenance of any improvements required by this chapter.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETS. Minor collector streets parallel and adjacent to arterial streets providing access to abutting properties and control of intersections with an arterial street.
MARKER. A wood or metal stake placed to designate the boundary and corners of lots in the subdivision of land for the purpose of reference in land and property survey and to facilitate the sale of lots.
MEDIATION. A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in a dispute mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.
MOBILE HOME. 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 shall 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.
MOBILE HOME PARK. A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which have been so designated and improved that they contain two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
MODIFICATIONS. Waivers of the requirements of one or more provisions of this chapter, as the literal enforcement will exact undo hardship because of particular conditions pertaining to the land in question.
MONUMENT. Stone or concrete monument of known coordinates, established by professional land surveyors and utilized to locate property lines.
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY. A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the Act of May 2, 1945 (Pub. L. No. 382, No. 164), known as the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, 53 P.S. §§ 5601 et seq..
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER. A professional engineer licensed as such in the commonwealth, duly appointed as the engineer for a municipality, planning agency or joint planning commission.
MUNICIPALITY. The Township of Antis.
NONRESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION. A subdivision whose intended use is other than residential, such as commercial or industrial. Such subdivision shall comply with the applicable provisions of these regulations.
OFFICIAL MAP. The municipal map adopted by ordinance showing the exact location of the lines of existing and proposed public streets, watercourses and public grounds, including widening, narrowing, extensions, diminutions, openings or closing of the same, for the entire municipality or part thereof.
ORGANIZED CAMP. A combination of program and facilities established for the primary purpose of providing an outdoor group living experience for children, youth and adults, with social, recreational and educational objectives and operated and used for five or more consecutive days during one or more seasons of the year.
PEAK DISCHARGE. The maximum rate of flow of water at a given point and time resulting from a storm event.
PLANNING COMMISSION, LOCAL. The Township Planning Commission as established and appointed by the Board of Supervisors.
PLAN, FINAL. A complete and exact subdivision plan prepared for official recording as required by statute; a final plat.
PLAN, PRELIMINARY. A subdivision plan or land development plan in lesser detail than the final plan.
PLAN, SKETCH. An informal optional submission preparatory to the preliminary plan showing the general intent of the subdivider.
PLAT. The map or plan of a subdivision or land development whether preliminary or final indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties.
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTS. Persons who provide expert or professional advice, including, but not limited to, architects, attorneys, certified public accountants, engineers, geologists, land surveyors, landscape architects or planners.
PUBLIC GROUNDS.
(1) Parks, playgrounds, trails, paths and other recreational areas and other public areas.
(2) Sites for schools, sewage treatment, refuse disposal and other publicly owned or operated facilities.
(3) Publicly owned or operated scenic and historic sites.
PUBLIC HEARING. Conducted to obtain, add and provide information, stenographic records of which are retained as transcripts for future use in an appeal or related matter.
PUBLIC MEETING. A forum held pursuant to notice under the act of July 3, 1986 (Pub. L. No. 388, No. 84), known as the “Sunshine Act,” 65 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 701 et seq..
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.
RECREATIONAL AND SEASONAL LAND DEVELOPMENT. The improvement and development of land for camping and/or related activities via the provision of campsites and any supportive facilities on a rental basis.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. A vehicular-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. The basic entities are travel trailer, camping trailer, truck camper and motor home.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK. A lot of land upon which two or more recreational vehicle sites are located, established or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles of the general public as temporary living quarters for vacation or recreation purposes.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE SITE. A plot of ground within a recreation vehicle park intended for the accommodation of either a recreation vehicle or other similar individual camping unit on a temporary basis.
REGULATORY FLOOD ELEVATION. The elevation which includes the 100-year floodplain, plus a freeboard safety factor of one and one-half feet.
REPORT. Any letter, review, memorandum, compilation or similar writing made by any body, board, officer or consultant other than a solicitor to any other body, board, officer or consultant for the purpose of assisting the recipient of such report in the rendering of any decision or determination. All REPORTS shall be deemed recommendatory and advisory only and shall not be binding upon the recipient, board, officer, body or agency, nor shall any appeal lie therefrom. Any REPORT used, received or considered by the body, board, officer or agency rendering a determination or decision shall be made available for inspection to the applicant and all other parties to any proceeding upon request, and copies thereof shall be provided at cost of reproduction.
RESERVE STRIP. A parcel of ground separating a street from other adjacent properties or from another street, which shall prevent a street from being connected or extended across property lines.
RE-SUBDIVISION. Any re-platting or re-subdivision of land involving changes of street layout or any land reserved for public use or any lot line on an approved or recorded plan. Any other more major changes shall be considered as constituting a new subdivision of land. (See also SUBDIVISION.)
RIGHT-OF-WAY. A public thoroughfare for vehicular or pedestrian traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane or alley, and including both cartway and shoulders.
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.
SANITARY SEWAGE DISPOSAL, COMMUNITY. A sanitary sewage collection system, either publicly or privately owned, in which sewage is carried from individual lots by a system of pipes to a temporary central treatment and disposal plant, generally serving a neighborhood area.
SANITARY SEWAGE DISPOSAL, ON-LOT. Any structure designed to biochemically treat sanitary sewage within the boundaries of an individual lot.
SANITARY SEWAGE DISPOSAL, PUBLIC. A sanitary sewage collection system in which sewage is carried from individual lots by a system of pipes to a central treatment and disposal plant.
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”.
SEPTIC TANK. A water-tight receptacle which receives sewage or industrial wastes and is designed and constructed to provide for sludge storage, sludge decomposition and separation of solids from liquids through a period of detention before allowing the liquid to be discharged.
SERVICE STREET. A minor public right-of-way providing secondary vehicular access to the side or rear of two or more properties.
SETBACK LINE. The line within a property defining the required minimum distance between any building to be erected and the adjacent property line. The front yard setback shall be measured at right angles from the front street right-of-way line which abuts the property on which said building is located and shall be parallel to said right-of-way line.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM, ON-LOT. A system of piping tanks or other facilities serving a lot and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or in part into the soil.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM, PUBLIC. A sanitary sewage collection method in which sewage is carried from the site by a system of pipes to a central treatment and disposal plant.
SHADE TREE. A tree in a public place, street, special easement or right-of-way adjoining a street as provided in these regulations.
SHOPPING CENTER. A group of retail establishments planned, constructed and managed as a total entity with customer and employee parking provided onsite, provision of goods delivery separated from customer access and protection from the elements via a canopy or other enclosure.
SIGHT DISTANCE. The required 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. SIGHT DISTANCE measurements shall be made from a point ten feet from the edge of the cartway.
SLOPE. The rise or fall of the land usually measured in percent slope. The percent SLOPE is equal to the rise or fall in feet for a horizontal distance of 100 feet.
SOIL PERCOLATION TEST. A field test conducted to determine the suitability of the soil for on-site sanitary sewage disposal facilities by measuring the absorptive capacity of the soil at a given location and depth.
SOLICITOR. The licensed attorney designated by the Township Board of Supervisors to furnish legal assistance for the administration of this chapter.
STABILIZATION. Natural or mechanical treatment of a mass of soil or ground area to increase or maintain its stability and ensure its resistance to erosion, sliding or other movement.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN. The plan for managing stormwater runoff as required by the Township Engineer and/or a plan for managing stormwater as required by any township stormwater management ordinance (Chapter 53).
STREET LINE. The limit of a right-of-way.
STREET, PRIVATE. Those streets not officially dedicated and/or accepted by the municipality.
STREETS. A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way, intended for use as a means of vehicular and pedestrian circulation, and further defined by the following functional classification in accordance with the rural area system characteristics in the Design Manual Part 2 Highway Design, Publication 13, PennDOT Bureau of Design, January 1990.
(1) ARTERIAL STREETS, MINOR. Those streets linking cities, larger towns and other traffic generators; providing integrated interstate and inter-county service; spaced at proper intervals consistent with population density; and/or those corridor movements with greater trip lengths and travel densities than those served by rural collector or local systems.
(2) ARTERIAL STREETS, PRINCIPAL. Those streets serving statewide or interstate travel, serving all urbanized areas and/or providing integrated movements without stub connections.
(3) COLLECTOR STREETS, MAJOR. Those streets which provide service to county seats, larger towns and other traffic generators; connect routes of higher functional classification; and/or serve inter-county travel corridors.
(4) COLLECTOR STREETS, MINOR. Those streets which are spaced at intervals to collect traffic from local roads, provide service to remaining smaller communities and/or link local traffic generators with rural hinterland.
(5) EXPRESSWAYS, INTERSTATES and LIMITED ACCESS FREEWAYS. Those roadways providing limited access facilities.
(6) LOCAL STREETS. Those streets which provide access to land adjacent to the collector network, serve travel over relatively short distances and/or constitute all rural mileage not classified in one of the higher systems.
STRUCTURE. Any human-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
SUBDIVIDER. Same as DEVELOPER.
SUBDIVISION. The division or re-division of a lot, tract or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other division 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 ten acres, not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential dwelling, shall be exempted.
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR. All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions, including but not limited to subdivisions of six or more lots or any size subdivision requiring any new street or extension of township facilities or the creation of any public improvements. The number of lots shall be counted as of the effective date of the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, Ordinance Number 1-94 (April 26, 1994).
SUBDIVISION, MINOR. Any subdivision containing not more than five lots fronting on an existing street, not involving any new street or road, or the extension of municipal facilities, or the creation of any public improvements, and not adversely affecting the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Comprehensive Plan, official map or these regulations. The number of lots shall be counted as of the effective date of the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, Ord. 1-94 (April 26, 1994).
SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED. Where, in the judgment of the Township Engineer, at least 90%, based on the cost of the required improvements for which financial security was posted pursuant to §§ 155.020 through 155.033, of those improvements required as a condition for final approval have been completed in accordance with the approved plan, so that the project will be able to be used, occupied or operated for its intended use.
SURFACE DRAINAGE PLAN. A plan showing all present and proposed grades and facilities for stormwater drainage.
SURVEYOR. A licensed land surveyor registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
SWALE. A low-lying stretch of land which gathers or carries surface water runoff.
TEMPORARY OCCUPANCY. Occupancy of a campground or organized camp for no more than six months in any consecutive 12-month period.
TENT. A portable lodging unit usually made of skins, canvas, plastic or strong cloth stretched and usually sustained by poles and dependent upon separate toilet and lavatory facilities.
TOPOGRAPHIC MAP. A map showing the elevations of the ground by contours or elevations, including all existing topographic features such as streams, roads, streets, existing facilities and improvements, as specified herein.
TOPSOIL. Surface soil and subsurface soil which presumably is fertile soil and ordinarily rich in organic matter or humus debris.
TOWNSHIP. The Township of Antis, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
TRAILER. A vehicular portable structure built on or designed to be mounted on a chassis or wheels or constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation and commonly known as “travel trailers,” “pick-up coaches,” “motor homes” or “camping trailers”.
WAIVER. When the subdivider can show that a provision of this chapter would cause unnecessary hardship if strictly adhered to because of conditions peculiar to the site, and where, in the opinion of the township, a departure from this chapter may be made without destroying the intent of such provisions, the township may authorize a waiver; a modification to the minimum standards of this chapter. (Refer to MODIFICATIONS.)
WATERCOURSE. A permanent or intermittent stream, river, brook, creek, channel or ditch for collection and conveyance of water, whether natural or human-made.
WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, COMMUNITY. A system for supplying and distributing water from a common source to two or more dwellings and other buildings within a subdivision, neighborhood or whole community, the total system being publicly or privately owned.
WATER SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, ON-LOT. A system for supplying and distributing water to a single dwelling or other building from a source located on the same lot.
WATER SURVEY. An inventory of the source, quantity, yield and use of groundwater and of surface water resources within a municipality.
(Ord. 2-2011, passed 10-6-2011)