For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICATION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF LAND. Every application for land development as detailed below, whether preliminary or final, required to be filed and approved prior to the start of construction or development, including, but not limited to, an application for the approval of a subdivision plot or plan, for the approval of a land development plat or plan, or for the approval of a development plan.
DEVELOPMENT PLAN. Provisions for land development, including a plot of a 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 herein, shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.
LAND DEVELOPMENT. Any of the following activities:
(1) The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A. A group of six or more residential or nonresidential buildings, whether proposed initially or cumulatively; or
B. The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially or cumulatively, between or among six 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 involving six or more residential buildings on lots or six or more nonresidential buildings on lots; and
(3) Development in accordance with § 503(1.1) of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, being 63 P.S. §§ 10101 et seq.
PLAT. The map or plan of a subdivision or land development, whether preliminary or final.
SUBDIVISION. The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel 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, 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 residential dwellings, shall be exempted.
(Ord. 657, passed 10-18-1989)