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DRAINAGE - The control of surface water within the tract of land to be developed by <br /> any means of collecting, diverting, handling, dispersing or disposal of surface runoff due to <br /> storm floorage, rainfall or natural means which has been designed by a.registered professional <br /> engineer. <br /> ENGINEER EER - A registered professional engineer qualified to practice civil engineering in <br /> the.Commonwealth of Massachusetts. <br /> GENERAL LAWS, MASSe GENERAL LAWSf G.L. or I. ,L. The Massachusetts <br /> General lavers, Tercentenary Edition, wb all additions thereto and amendments -thereof. In <br /> case-of a rearrangement of the General Laws, any citation of particular sections of the General <br /> Laws shall,be applicable to.the corresponding sections of the new codification. <br /> QUITTER - A hal-low channel usually set along a curb or the pavement edge of a roadway <br /> fr purposes of catching and carrying off runoff grater. May be included in the Width of parking <br /> lanes, but not of travel, acceleration or deceleration lanes or of bicycle lanes. <br /> IMPERVIOUS -SURFACE - The roof area of structures and any horizontal surface that <br /> has been constructed or has been compacted or covered with a layer of material so that it is <br /> highly resistant to infiltration by water. <br /> ISLAND - In street design, a raised area, usually curbed unless otherwise permitted b <br /> the Board, placed to guide traffic and separate travel lames or used for landscaping, signing or <br /> lighting. <br /> LEVEL of SERVICE (Los) - A measure of the effect of a number of factors, which <br /> include speed and travel time, traffic interruptions, freedom to maneuver, safety, driving <br /> comfort and convenience and operating costs defined, in practice, in terms of particular limiting <br /> values of certain of these factors and expressed on a scale from A to F, from .best to worst. <br /> Applied to through traffic or to intersection movements. An intersection or roadway designed <br /> for a Certain revel of service at a specified volume of traffic will actually operate at many <br /> different levels of service as the flow-varies during an hour, and as the volume vanes during <br /> different hours of the tray, days of the week, periods of the year and during different years due <br /> to traffic growth. Unless indicated otherwise, for the purposes of these rules- and regulations <br /> level of service shall 'be analyzed using the. procedures described in the "Highway Capacity . <br /> Manual" (Transportation Research Board Bpeciat Report o ; Washington, D.C.; 1985), as most <br /> recently revised, and shall be represented for buildout of the project under- review and for <br /> buildout of all areas which would contribute traffic to. its streets. For analysis of adjacent <br /> roadways, LS shall be based on projected traffic movements,in twenty o years. <br /> LOT - An area of land in one oar nership, ,with definite boundaries, used, or available for <br /> use, as the site of one or more buildings. <br /> - OWNER - As applied to real estate, the person as hereinafter defined) holding the <br /> ultimate fee simple title to a parcel, tact or lot of land, as shown by the record in the <br /> appropriate land Registration Office, Registry of Deeds or Registry of Probate. For special <br /> permit applicants, proof of ownership shall include a copy of the latest recorded deed or Land <br /> Court.certificate as well as of the M ash pee Board of Assessors'listing for the property. <br />