New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 21 - RESIDENTIAL SITE IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL GUIDELINES › Section 5:21-1.4 - Definitions and abbreviations

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words, terms, and abbreviations, when used in this
				  chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicated
				  otherwise. Where a word or term is defined in this chapter and the Municipal Land
				  Use Law ( 40:55D-1 et seq.), then the definition
				  of that word or term found in the Municipal Land Use Law shall govern. Words and
				  terms found in the Municipal Land Use Law, and defined here for convenience, have
				  been designated by the use of "(MLUL)" following their meaning.
"AASHTO" means American Association of State Highway and
				  Transportation Officials.
"ABS" means acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene.
"ACI" means American Concrete Institute.
"Administrative Officer" means the clerk of the municipality,
				  unless a different municipal official or officials are designated by ordinance or
				  statute. (MLUL).
"ADT" (see average daily traffic.)
"Aisle" means the traveled way by which cars enter and depart
				  parking spaces.
"Alley" means a service road that provides a secondary means of
				  access to lots.
"ANSI" means American National Standards Institute.
"Applicant" means a developer submitting an application for
				  development. (MLUL).
"Application For Development" means the application form and all
				  accompanying documents required by ordinance for approval of a subdivision plat,
				  site plan, planned development, conditional use, zoning variance, or direction of
				  the issuance of a permit pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law. (MLUL).
"Approving Authority" means the planning board of the
				  municipality, unless a different agency is designated by ordinance when acting
				  pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law. (MLUL).
"Arterial Street" means a higher-order, interregional road in the
				  street hierarchy; conveys traffic between centers; should be excluded from
				  residential areas. (See "street hierarchy".)
"ASCE" means American Society of Civil Engineers.
"ASTM" means American Society for Testing and Materials.
"Average Daily Traffic" means the number of vehicles per day that
				  pass over a given point.
"AWWA" means American Water Works Association.
"Berm" means a mound of soil, either natural or constructed, used
				  for one or more of the following purposes: screen, buffer, separator, landscape
				  feature, noise attenuator, dam, or stormwater control.
"Bicycle-Compatible Roadway" means a road designed to accommodate
				  the shared use of the roadway by bicycles and motor vehicles.
"Bicycle Lane (bike lane)" means a portion of a roadway which has
				  been designated by striping, signing, and pavement markings for the preferential or
				  exclusive use of bicyclists.
"Bicycle Path (bike path)" means a bikeway physically separated
				  from motorized vehicular traffic by an open space or barrier, and either within the
				  highway right-of-way or within an independent right-of-way or easement.
"Bikeway" means any road, path, or way which in some manner is
				  specifically designated as being open to bicycle travel, regardless of whether such
				  facilities are designated for the exclusive use of bicycles or are to be shared with
				  other transportation modes.
"Blow Off" means a valve or device to allow the escape of air,
				  fluid, or sediments from a pipe within which fluid is flowing under pressure greater
				  than atmospheric pressure.
"Board of Adjustment" means the zoning board of adjustment
				  established pursuant to
				  40:55D-69. (MLUL).
"CAFRA" means Coastal Area Facility Review Act.
"Capped System" means a completed water supply and/or sewerage
				  system put in place for future use (contingent upon expansion), rather than to meet
				  immediate development needs.
"Carbonate Rock" means a rock consisting chiefly of calcium and
				  magnesium carbonates.
"Cartway" means the actual road surface area from curbline to
				  curbline which may include travel lanes, parking lanes, and deceleration and
				  acceleration lanes. Where there are no curbs, the cartway is that portion between
				  the edges of the paved, or hard surface, width.
"CBR" means California Bearing Ratio, which is a method for
				  measuring the strength and condition of road subgrades.
"Centerline Offset of Adjacent Intersections" means the gap
				  between the centerline of roads intersecting a common road, as measured along the
				  centerline of the intersected road.
"Channel" means any natural or man-made waterway or course through
				  which a constant or intermittent flow of water is conveyed.
"Channelization" means the straightening and deepening of
				  channels, and/or the surfacing thereof, to permit water to move more rapidly or to
				  redirect the flow of surface water.
"Common Lateral" means a lateral serving more than one dwelling
				  unit.
"Common Open Space" means an open space area within or related to
				  a site designated as a development, and designed and intended for the use or
				  enjoyment of residents and owners of the development. Common open space may contain
				  such complementary structures and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for
				  the use or enjoyment of residents and owners of the development. (MLUL).
"Corporation Stop" (also known as "corporation cock") means a
				  valve which is placed in a building's water or gas service pipe near its junction
				  with the public water or gas main.
"Cul-de-Sac" means a street with a single means of ingress and
				  egress and having a turnaround, the design of which may vary. (See "street
				  hierarchy".)
"Culvert" means a closed or open conduit designed for the purpose
				  of conveying an open channel watercourse under a road, highway, pedestrian walk,
				  railroad embankment, or other type of overhead structure.
"Curb" means a stone, concrete, or other improved boundary marking
				  the edge of the roadway or paved area.
"Dams and Embankments" means artificial dikes, levees, or other
				  barriers, with appurtenances, for the purpose of impounding or retaining
				  water.
"Days" means calendar days. (MLUL).
"Dedication" means an appropriation of land to some public use
				  made by the owner and accepted for such use by or on behalf of the public.
"Density" means the permitted number of dwelling units per gross
				  area of land to be developed. (MLUL).
"Design Engineer" means a person professionally qualified and duly
				  licensed to perform engineering services that may include, but not necessarily be
				  limited to, development of project requirements, creation and development of project
				  design, and preparation of drawings and specifications.
"Design Standards" means standards that set forth specific
				  improvement requirements.
"Detention Basin" means a stormwater management basin or
				  alternative structure designed to temporarily detain stormwater runoff.
"Developer" means the legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot
				  or of any land proposed to be included in a proposed development, including the
				  holder of an option or contract to purchase, or other person having an enforceable
				  proprietary interest in such land. (MLUL).
"Development" means the division of a parcel of land into two or
				  more parcels; the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration,
				  relocation, or enlargement of any building or other structure, or of any mining
				  excavation or landfill; and any use or change in the use of any building or other
				  structure, or land, or extension of use of land, for which permission may be
				  required per the Municipal Land Use Law. (MLUL).
"Development, Conventional" means development other than planned
				  development. (MLUL).
"Development Plan, General" means a comprehensive plan for the
				  development of a planned development, as provided in the Municipal Land Use Law.
				  (MLUL).
"Development, Planned" means unit development, planned unit
				  residential development, residential cluster, planned commercial development, or
				  planned industrial development. (MLUL).
"Development, Planned Unit" means an area with a specified minimum
				  contiguous acreage of 10 acres or more to be developed as a single entity according
				  to a plan, containing one or more residential clusters or planned unit residential
				  developments and one or more public, quasi-public, commercial, or industrial areas
				  in such ranges of ratios of nonresidential uses to residential uses as shall be
				  specified in the zoning ordinance. (MLUL).
"Development, Planned Unit Residential" means an area with a
				  specified minimum contiguous acreage of five acres or more to be developed as a
				  single entity according to a plan, containing one or more residential clusters,
				  which may include appropriate commercial or public or quasi-public uses, all
				  primarily for the benefit of the residential development. (MLUL).
"Development Regulation" means a zoning ordinance, subdivision
				  ordinance, site plan ordinance, official map ordinance, or other municipal
				  regulation of the use and development of land, or amendment thereto adopted and
				  filed pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law. (MLUL).
"Divided Street" means a street having an island or other barrier
				  separating opposing moving lanes.
"Dolomite" means a carbonate rock that contains more than 15
				  percent magnesium carbonate.
"Drainage" means the removal of surface water or groundwater from
				  land by drains, grading, or other means and includes control of runoff during and
				  after construction or development to minimize erosion and sedimentation, to assure
				  the adequacy of existing and proposed culverts and bridges, to induce water recharge
				  into the ground where practical, to lessen nonpoint pollution, to maintain the
				  integrity of stream channels for their biological functions as well as for drainage,
				  and the means necessary for water supply preservation or prevention or alleviation
				  of flooding. (MLUL).
"Drainage Facility" means any component of the drainage
				  system.
"Drainage System" means natural and man-made components that
				  contain, convey, absorb, store, treat, or dispose of surface water runoff or
				  groundwater.
"Driveway" means a defined paved or unpaved surface providing
				  vehicular access to a street. A driveway is not a road, street, boulevard, highway,
				  or parkway.
"Drop Manhole" means an inspection chamber used at changes in
				  horizontal and/or vertical directions for underground utility conduits where the
				  incoming conduit is two feet or more above the elevation of the discharge
				  conduit.
"Drop Pipe" means a vertical pipe used to convey sewage from a
				  higher to a lower elevation.
"Dry Lines" (see "capped system".)
"Easement" means a right to use the land of another for a specific
				  purpose.
"Edge Definition" means as it pertains to streets, a way of
				  identifying the traveled way from the nontraveled way, such as by the use of
				  railings, bollards, wheel stops, or edge plantings.
"Emergency Spillway" means a supplemental spillway whose function
				  is to pass the design storm flows in the event the principal spillway fails to
				  operate as designed or is blocked.
"Erosion" means the detachment and movement of soil or rock
				  fragments by water, wind, ice, and gravity. (MLUL).
"Fence" means an artificially-constructed barrier of wood,
				  masonry, stone, wire, metal, or any other manufactured material or combination of
				  materials.
"Final Approval" means the official action of the planning board
				  taken on a preliminary approved major subdivision or site plan after all conditions,
				  engineering plans, and other requirements have been completed or fulfilled and the
				  required improvements have been installed, or guarantees properly posted for their
				  completion, or approval conditioned upon the posting of such guarantees.
				  (MLUL).
"Flushing" means the cleaning out of debris and sediment from
				  pipes by force of moving liquid, usually water.
"Governing Body" means the chief legislative body of the
				  municipality. In municipalities having a board of public works, "governing body"
				  means such a board. (MLUL).
"Grade" means the inclination of a sloping surface, usually
				  expressed in percentage terms.
"Graded Area" means as it pertains to streets, land adjacent and
				  parallel to the cartway within the right-of-way, which must be flattened or leveled
				  to the same width and cross-slope as a sidewalk, if a sidewalk had been required at
				  that location.
"Granite Block Curb" (also known as "Belgian block curb") means a
				  curb constructed of rectangular-shaped stone or granite blocks, usually placed
				  vertically in a concrete foundation.
"Gutter" means a shallow channel, usually set along a curb or the
				  pavement edge of a road, for purposes of catching and carrying off runoff
				  water.
"Historic District" means one or more historic sites and
				  intervening or surrounding property significantly affecting, or affected by, the
				  quality and character of the historic site or sites. (MLUL).
"Historic Site" means any real property, man-made structure,
				  natural object, or configuration, or any portion or group of the foregoing of
				  historical, archaeological, cultural, scenic, or architectural significance.
				  (MLUL).
"Impervious Surface" means a surface that has been compacted or
				  covered with a layer of material so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by
				  water.
"Impoundment" means a body of water, such as a pond, confined by a
				  dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier.
"Improved Public Street" means for subdivision purposes or site
				  plan, any street which complies in width and construction with municipal
				  standards.
"Improvement" means any constructed element which becomes part of,
				  is placed upon, or is affixed to real estate.
"Intensity of development" means the classification of development
				  based on the number of dwelling units per gross acre of land served by a particular
				  street, excluding the acreage of dedicated common open space or other areas
				  restricted from future development.
"Island" means in street design, a raised area, usually curbed,
				  placed to guide traffic and separate lanes, or used for landscaping, signing, or
				  lighting.
"ISO" means Insurance Services Office, Inc.
"ITE" means Institute of Transportation Engineers.
"Land" means real property including improvements and fixtures on,
				  above, or below the surface.
"Laterals, (plumbing/sewer)" means pipes conducting sewage from
				  individual buildings to larger pipes called trunk, or interceptor, sewers that
				  usually are located in street rights-of-way.
"Limestone" means a carbonate sedimentary rock consisting chiefly
				  of calcium carbonate. Limestone is commonly used as a general term for the class of
				  rocks that consist of at least 80 percent calcium or magnesium carbonate.
"Lot" means a designated parcel, tract, or area of land
				  established by a plat, or otherwise as permitted by law, and to be used, developed,
				  or built upon as a unit. (MLUL).
"Main" means in any system of continuous piping, the principal
				  artery of the system to which branches may be connected.
"Maintenance Guarantee" means any security which may be accepted
				  by a municipality for the maintenance of any improvements required by the Municipal
				  Land Use Law, including, but not limited to, surety bonds, letters of credit under
				  the circumstances specified in
				  40:55D-53.3, and cash. (MLUL).
"Major Collector" means the highest order of residential street
				  (see "street hierarchy"). Conducts and distributes traffic between lower-order
				  residential streets and higher-order streets (arterials and expressways).
"Major Development" means any development that provides for
				  ultimately disturbing one or more acres of land. Disturbance for the purpose of this
				  chapter is the placement of impervious surface or exposure and/or movement of soil
				  or bedrock or clearing, cutting, or removing of vegetation.
"Manhole" means an inspection chamber located at changes in
				  horizontal and vertical directions for underground utility conduits whose dimensions
				  allow entry, exit, and working room.
"Marble" means a metamorphic rock consisting chiefly of
				  crystallized limestone or dolomite.
"Marginal Access Street" means a service street that runs parallel
				  to a higher-order street which provides access to abutting properties and separation
				  from through traffic. It may be designed as a residential access street or minor
				  collector as anticipated daily traffic dictates.
"Master Plan" means a composite of one or more written or graphic
				  proposals for the development of the municipality, as set forth and adopted by the
				  planning board pursuant to
				  40:55D-28. (MLUL).
"Median" means that portion of a divided highway separating the
				  traveled ways of traffic proceeding in opposite directions.
"Minor Collector" means middle order of residential street (see
				  "street hierarchy"). Provides frontage for access to lots, and carries traffic to
				  and from adjoining residential access streets.
"Mixed Use" means two or more different uses, one of which is
				  residential.
"MLUL" means Municipal Land Use Law,
				  40:55D-1 et seq.
"Moving Lane" means any traffic lane where traffic movement is the
				  primary, if not sole, function.
"Mulch" means a layer of wood chips, dry leaves, straw, hay,
				  plastic, or other materials placed on the surface of the soil around plants to
				  retain moisture, prevent weeds from growing, hold the soil in place, and aid plant
				  growth.
"Multifamily development" means a development other than one-or
				  two-family detached dwellings where the dwellings are arranged so that there are
				  more than two units attached, regardless of the presence of lot lines.
"Municipality" means any city, borough, town, township, or
				  village. (MLUL).
"NFPA" means National Fire Protection Association.
"Nonstructural Management Practices" means those controls of
				  stormwater runoff and nonpoint source pollution that are not structural in nature,
				  such as landscaping techniques, source controls, zoning, setbacks, buffers, or
				  clustering.
"NRCS" means Natural Resources Conservation Service, a division of
				  the U.S. Department of Agriculture (formerly known as the Soil Conservation
				  Service).
"Offsite" means located outside the lot lines of the lot in
				  question but within the property (of which the lot is a part) which is the subject
				  of a development application or contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
				  (MLUL).
"Off-Street Parking Space" means a storage area for a motor
				  vehicle that is directly accessible to an access aisle and that is not located
				  within a dedicated street right-of-way.
"Offtract" means not located on the property which is the subject
				  of a development application, nor on a contiguous portion of a street or
				  right-of-way. (MLUL).
"Onsite" means located on the lot in question. (MLUL).
"On-Street Parking Space" means a storage area for a motor vehicle
				  that is located within a dedicated street right-of-way.
"Open Space" means any parcel or area of land or water essentially
				  unimproved and set aside, dedicated, designated, or reserved for public or private
				  use or enjoyment, or for the use and enjoyment of owners and occupants of land
				  adjoining or neighboring such open space, provided that such areas may be improved
				  with only those buildings, structures, streets, and off-street parking and other
				  improvements that are designed to be incidental to the natural openness of the land.
				  (MLUL).
"Parking Lane" means a lane usually set on the sides of streets,
				  designed to provide on-street parking.
"Parking lot" means a ground-level, generally open area that
				  provides storage for motor vehicles that may provide access to dwelling units and
				  which has aisles that carry traffic with destination or origin in the lot
				  itself.
"Parking Space" means a storage area provided for the parking of a
				  motor vehicle.
"Pavement" means a surface created to facilitate passage of people
				  and/or vehicles, usually constructed of brick, stone, concrete, or asphalt.
"Pedestrian Generator" means a development which will realize high
				  facility usage by persons arriving on foot.
"Performance Guarantee" means any security which may be accepted
				  by a municipality including but not limited to surety bonds, letters of credit under
				  the circumstances specified in
				  40:55D-53.5, and cash. (MLUL).
"Pervious Surface" means any surface that permits a significant
				  portion of surface water to be absorbed.
"Planning Board" means the municipal planning board established
				  pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law. (MLUL).
"Plat" means a map or maps of a subdivision or site plan.
				  (MLUL).
"Preliminary Approval" means the conferral of certain rights
				  pursuant to 40:55D-46, 48, and 49 prior to final
				  approval after specific elements of a development plan have been agreed upon by the
				  planning board and the applicant. (MLUL).
"Principal Basin" means a detention or retention basin whose
				  function is controlling or managing the runoff from a particular area or property
				  that is to be developed.
"Public Open Space" means an open space area conveyed or otherwise
				  dedicated to a municipality, municipal agency, board of education, State or county
				  agency, or other public body for recreational or conservation uses. (MLUL).
"PVC" means Polyvinyl chloride.
"Residential Access Street" means the lowest order, other than
				  rural street type, of residential street (see "street hierarchy"). Provides frontage
				  for access to private lots and carries traffic having destination or origin on the
				  street itself. Designed to carry traffic at slowest speed.
"Residential Cluster" means 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. (MLUL).
"Residential Density" means the number of dwelling units per gross
				  acre of residential land area including streets, easements, and open space portions
				  of a development. (MLUL).
"Residential Neighborhood Street" means a type of residential
				  access street conforming to traditional subdivision street design, which provides
				  access to building lots fronting on a street and provides parking on both sides of
				  street. (See "street hierarchy".)
"Resubdivision" means:
1.
				The further division or relocation of lot lines of any lot or lots within a
				subdivision previously made and approved or recorded according to law; or
2. The alteration of any streets or the
				establishment of any new streets within any subdivision previously made and approved
				or recorded according to law, but does not include conveyances so as to combine
				existing lots by deed or other instrument. (MLUL).
"Retention Basin" means a stormwater management basin designed to
				  retain some water on a permanent basis.
"Right-Of-Way" means a strip of land occupied or intended to be
				  occupied by a street, crosswalk, railroad, road, electric transmission line, gas
				  pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, shade tree, or for another
				  special use.
"Rural" means as it pertains to streets, when density is one
				  dwelling unit per acre or lower, a road primarily serving as access to abutting
				  building lots, which has no on-street parking, and lot-to-street access is designed
				  so vehicles do not back out of lots onto the street. (See "street
				  hierarchy".)
"Rural Lane" means a street that serves dwellings on lots that are
				  two acres or greater, primarily serves as access to abutting building lots, has no
				  on-street parking, and has lot-to-street access designed so that vehicles do not
				  back out of lots onto the street. (See "street hierarchy.")
"Rural Street" means a street that serves dwellings on lots that
				  are one acre or greater, primarily serves as access to abutting building lots, has
				  no on-street parking, and has lot-to-street access designed so that vehicles do not
				  back out of lots onto the street. (See "street hierarchy.")
"SDR" means Standard Dimensional Ratio.
"Sedimentation" means the deposition of soil that has been
				  transported from its site of origin by water, ice, wind, gravity, or other natural
				  means as a product of erosion. (MLUL).
"Septic Tank" means a watertight receptacle which receives the
				  discharge of sanitary sewage from a building sewer or part thereof, and is designed
				  and constructed so as to permit settling of settleable solids from the liquid,
				  partial digestion of the organic matter, and discharge of the liquid portion into a
				  disposal field or seepage pit.
"Sewer" means any pipe conduit used to collect and carry away
				  sewage or stormwater runoff from the generating source to treatment plants or
				  receiving streams.
"Shoulder" means the portion of the roadway contiguous with the
				  traveled way for accommodation of stopped vehicles, for emergency use, and for
				  lateral support of base and surface courses.
"Sidewalk" means an improved path for pedestrian use outside the
				  cartway.
"Sight Triangle" means a triangular-shaped portion of land
				  established at street intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted, or
				  allowed to grow in such a manner as to limit or obstruct the sight distance of
				  motorists entering or leaving the intersection.
"Site Improvements" means any construction work on, or improvement
				  in connection with, residential development limited to streets, roads, parking
				  facilities, sidewalks, drainage structures, and utilities.
"Site Plan" means a development plan of one or more lots on which
				  is shown:
1. The existing and proposed
				conditions of the lot including, but not necessarily limited to, topography,
				vegetation, drainage, flood plains, marshes, and waterways;
2. The location of all existing and proposed
				buildings, drives, parking spaces, walkways, means of ingress and egress, drainage
				facilities, utility services, landscaping, structures, signs, lighting, and
				screening devices; and
3. 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
				40:55D-37 et seq. (MLUL).
"Site Plan, Major" means any site plan not classified as a minor
				  site plan.
"Site Plan, Minor" means a development plan of one or more lots
				  which:
1. Proposes new development within
				the scope of development specifically permitted by ordinance as a minor site
				plan;
2. Does not involve planned
				development, any new street, or extension of any off-tract improvement which is to
				be prorated pursuant to
				40:55D-42; and
3. Contains the information reasonably required in
				order to make an informed determination as to whether the requirements established
				by ordinance for approval of a minor site plan have been met. (MLUL).
"Soil" means the arable layers of unmodified sediments beneath the
				  surface material and above bedrock.
"Soil Cement" means a mixture of portland cement and soil.
"Soil Erosion" means the gradual alteration of soil by crustal
				  movement or by processes of weathering, transportation, and sedimentation.
"Stabilization" means, as it pertains to streets, the ability of a
				  surface to resist deformation from imposed loads. Stabilization can be accomplished
				  by adequate thicknesses of asphalt base and surface course, dense graded aggregates,
				  cement treated soil aggregates, or concrete or precast masonry units set on a base
				  course.
"Stabilized Base Course (Bituminous)" means stabilized base course
				  or asphalt concrete base consisting of soil aggregate and bituminous material
				  uniformly mixed and placed on a previously prepared surface.
"Stabilized Earth" means earth or soil, strengthened usually by
				  the mixing of cement or lime with the original material to achieve increased
				  strength, thereby reducing shrinkage and movement.
"Stormwater Detention" means a provision for temporary storage of
				  stormwater runoff, and the controlled release of such runoff during and after a
				  flood or storm.
"Stormwater Retention" means a provision for the permanent storage
				  of a fixed volume of water.
"Street" means any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway,
				  viaduct, drive, or other way which is an existing State, county, or municipal
				  roadway, or which is shown upon a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law, or which
				  is approved by official action as provided by the MLUL, or which is shown on a plat
				  duly filed and recorded in the office of the county recording officer prior to the
				  appointment of a planning board and the grant to such board of the power to review
				  plats; and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved or
				  unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, parking
				  areas, and other areas within the street lines. (MLUL).
"Street Hierarchy" means the conceptual arrangement of streets
				  based upon function. A hierarchical approach to street design classifies streets
				  according to function, from high-traffic arterial roads to streets whose function is
				  residential access.
"Street, Loop" means a street that has its only ingress and egress
				  at two points on the same street.
"Subdivision" means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of
				  land into two or more lots, tracts, parcels, or other divisions of land for sale or
				  development. The following shall not be considered subdivisions within the meaning
				  of these rules, if no new streets are created: divisions of land found by the
				  planning board or subdivision committee thereof appointed by the chairman to be for
				  agricultural purposes, where all resulting parcels are five acres or larger in size;
				  divisions of property by testamentary or intestate provisions; divisions of property
				  upon court order, including but not limited to judgments of foreclosure;
				  consolidation of existing lots by deed or other recorded instrument; and the
				  conveyance of one or more adjoining lots, tracts, or parcels of land owned by the
				  same person or persons, all of which are found and certified by the administrative
				  officer to conform to the requirements of the municipal development regulations, and
				  are shown and designated as separate lots, tracts, or parcels on the tax map or
				  atlas of the municipality. The term "subdivision" shall also include the term
				  "resubdivision." (MLUL).
"Subdivision, Major" means any subdivision not classified as a
				  minor subdivision. (MLUL).
"Subdivision, Minor" means a subdivision of land for the creation
				  of a number of lots specifically permitted by ordinance as a minor subdivision,
				  provided that such subdivision does not involve a planned development, any new
				  street, or the extension of any off-tract improvement, the cost of which is to be
				  prorated pursuant to
				  40:55D-42. (MLUL).
"Subgrade" means the prepared surface upon which pavements and
				  shoulders are constructed.
"Surface Course" means the placement of the asphalt concrete
				  material on a previously prepared base course.
"Swale" means a low lying or depressed land area commonly wet or
				  moist, which can function as an intermittent drainage way.
"TR" means Technical Release as issued by the NRCS.
"Traveled Way" means the portion of a cartway used for vehicular
				  travel.
"Trip" means a single or one-way vehicle movement to or from a
				  property or study area.
"ULI" means Urban Land Institute.
"USCGS (also USC&G and USC&GS)" means United States Coast
				  and Geodetic Survey.
"Utility Area" means a flexible space within the right-of-way
				  designated for the installation of utility lines and facilities.
"Utility Authority" means any "sewerage authority" as defined in
				  40:14A-3 or any "municipal authority"
				  as defined in 40:14B-3.
"Variance" means permission to depart from the literal
				  requirements of a zoning ordinance, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40b., 70c., and 70d.
				  (MLUL).
"Wet Pond" (see "retention basin").