Plumsted City Zoning Code
§ 15-14.2
Definitions.
[Ord. 8/9/82, § 2; Ord. 6/13/83, § II; Ord. 5/27/88, § 7; Ord. 4/10/89, § 1; Ord. #97-01, §§ 6, 7; Ord. # 2012-04, §§ 2,3; amended 3-6-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-05; 12-30-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-10]
a.
The following terms utilized in this section are used as defined in the New Jersey Comprehensive Management Plan, adopted by the New Jersey Pinelands Commission pursuant to Section 7 of the "Pinelands Protection Act" (N.J.S.A. 13:18A-1 et seq.), and are in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:50-2.11, except where otherwise noted: Accessory Structure or Use; Agricultural Commercial Establishment; Agricultural Employee Housing; Agricultural or Horticultural Purpose or Use; Agricultural Service Establishment; Animals, Threatened or Endangered; Application for Development; Artificial Regeneration; Bedding; Broadcast Scarification; Camper; Campsite; Certification of Appropriateness; Certificate of Filing; Clearcutting; Commencement of Construction; Commission; Comprehensive Management Plan; Contiguous Lands; Coppicing; Density; Development; Disking; District; Divert or Diversion; Drainage; Drum Chopping; Dwelling; Dwelling Unit; Electric Distribution Lines; Electric Transmission Line; Enlargement; Erosion; Executive Director; Family; Federal Act; First Order Stream; Fish and Wildlife Management; Flood Plains; Floor Area; Forestry; Forest Stand; Group Selection; Habitat; Height; Historic District; Historic Resource; Hydrologic Unit Code-11 or HUC-11; Hydrophytes; Immediate Family; Impermeable Surface; Impervious Surface; Individual Selection; Interim Rules and Regulations; Institutional Uses; Interested Person or Party; Land; Landfill; Landscaping; Leachate Collector; Local Communications Facility; Mobile Home; Natural Regeneration; Navigable Waters; Nonconsumptive Use; Off-Site Commercial Advertising Sign; Parcel; Permeability; Person; Pinelands; Pinelands Area; Pinelands Development Credit; Pinelands Development Review Board; Pinelands Native Forest Type; Pinelands Protection Act; Pinelands Resource Related Use; Plants, Threatened or Endangered; Pre-Application Conference; Preservation Area; Protection Area; Public Development; Public Service Infrastructure; Recommended Management Practice; Record Tree; Recreational Facility, Intensive; Recreational Facility, Low Intensive; Resource Conservation Plan; Resource Extraction; Resource Management System Plan; Root Raking; Scenic Corridors; Seed Tree Cut; Shelterwood Cut; Sign; Solar Energy Facility; Structural Alteration; Subdivision; Submerged Lands; Thinning; Utility Distribution Line; Vegetation; Wetlands; (N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.3-6.5); Wetlands Management and Wetlands Soils.
b. APPROVING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL DEVELOPMENT, MAJOR DEVELOPMENT, MINOR FORESTRY1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PINELANDS AREA, PLUMSTED TOWNSHIP SEASONAL HIGH WATER TABLE
As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Shall mean any board, body or other authority within the Township with authority to approve, disapprove subdivision, site plans, construction permits or other applications for development approval.
Shall mean any approval to develop which is granted by an approval agency, including appeals to the governing body, except for certificates of occupancy and variances which do not otherwise include issuance of a construction permit, subdivision, or site plan approval.
Shall mean any division of land into five or more lots; any construction or expansion of any housing development of five or more dwelling units; any construction or expansion of any commercial or industrial use or structure on a site of more than three acres; or any grading, clearing, or disturbance of an area in excess of 5,000 square feet.
Shall mean all development other than major development.
Shall mean the planting, cultivating and harvesting of trees for the production of wood products, including firewood or for forest health. It includes such practices as reforestation, site preparation and other silvicultural practices, including but not limited to artificial regeneration, bedding, broadcast scarification, clearcutting, coppicing, disking, drum chopping, group selection, individual selection, natural regeneration, root raking, seed tree cut, shelterwood cut and thinning. For purposes of this chapter, the following activities shall not be defined as forestry:
Removal of trees located on a parcel of land one acre or less on which a dwelling has been constructed;
Horticultural activities involving the planting, cultivating or harvesting of nursery stock or Christmas trees;
Removal of trees necessitated by the development of the parcel as otherwise authorized by this chapter;
Removal of trees necessary for the maintenance of utility or public rights-of-way;
Removal or planting of trees for the personal use of the parcel owner; and
Removal of trees for public safety.
Shall mean that area of Plumsted Township designated as part of the Pinelands Area by Section 10(a) of the New Jersey Pinelands Protection Act (N.J.S.A. 13:18A-1 et seq.).
Shall mean the level below the natural ground surface to which water seasonally rises in the soil in most years.