For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
DEAD-END STREET or CUL-DE-SAC
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
ENGINEER or LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State of New York.
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT
The modification or elimination of the boundary line between two adjoining lots having separate tax parcel identification numbers.
[Added 4-15-2021 by L.L. No. 2-2021]
A. 
A lot line adjustment shall not:
(1) 
Create a new lot;
(2) 
Create a nonconforming lot unless such nonconformity is explicitly approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals; or
(3) 
Increase the nonconformity of an existing nonconforming lot unless such nonconformity is explicitly approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
B. 
A lot line adjustment is not a subdivision, but Planning Board review of lot line adjustments is nonetheless set forth within the minor subdivision language of this chapter.
MAJOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between communities and/or other heavy traffic-generating areas.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision, including but not limited to subdivisions or five or more lots, or any size subdivision requiring any new street or extension of municipal facilities.
MASTER or COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A comprehensive plan, prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law, which indicates the general locations recommended for various functional classes of public works, places and structures and for general physical development of the town and includes any unit or part of such plan separately prepared and any amendment to such plan or parts therein.
MINOR STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision containing not more than four lots fronting on an existing street, not involving any new street or road or the extension of municipal facilities and not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Master Plan or Chapter 180, Zoning, if such exists, or these regulations.
PLANNING BOARD or BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town of Chatham.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings clearly marked "preliminary plat" showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in § 170-23 of these regulations.
SKETCH PLAN
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in § 170-21 of these regulations.
STREET
Streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other trafficways between right-of-way lines.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The width of right-of-way, measured at right angles to the center line of the street.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association, who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein, either for himself or others.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, and includes resubdivision.
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and by these regulations to be presented to the Planning Board for approval.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the Town of Chatham Planning Board.