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Preston Township, Wayne County
Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance
APPLICANT: A landowner, subdivider, or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has filed an application for
subdivision or land development, including his heirs, successors, and assigns.
BLOCK: A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries,
railroad rights-of-way, shorelines of waterways, or boundary lines of municipalities.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE: A line within a property defining the minimum required distance between any
structure to be erected and the adjacent right-of-way or side and rear lot lines.
CARTWAY: The graded or paved portion of a street used for vehicular travel, excluding shoulders.
CHANGE IN LOT LINES: Any change or alteration in existing lot lines. A change in lot lines constitutes a
subdivision.
COMMON OPEN SPACE: A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water, or a combination of land and
water within a development site and designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents of a
development, not including streets, off-street parking areas, and areas set aside for public facilities.
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL: A special approval of a subdivision or land development granted by Board of
Supervisors with conditions attached thereto.
CUL-DE-SAC: A street with only one (1) outlet which intersects another street at one (1) end and is
terminated at the other in a vehicular turnaround.
DEP: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
DEVELOPER: Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the permission of such landowner,
who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land development.
DEVELOPMENT PLAN: The provisions 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” shall mean the written and graphic
materials referred to in this definition.
DRIVEWAY: A privately owned vehicular access from a private or public street into a lot, tract, or parcel of
land which is used or intended to be used to provide access to not more than one (1) lot, tract, or parcel of
land.
EASEMENT: A right to use the land of another for a specific purposes; and (vii) the preparation of plans
and specifications and estimates of proposed work and attendant costs.
FINAL PLAN: The ultimate map and supporting material drawn and submitted as required in these
regulations for a subdivision or land development.
FINAL PLAT: The ultimate map showing the layout of the subdivision or land development which, if
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