For the purpose of these regulations, certain
words used herein are defined as follows:
The Commissioner of Planning for the City-County Planning
Agency.
The Planning Board of the Town of Cicero.
FINAL PLATThe final map or drawing on which the exact subdivision plan is presented for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the County Clerk for recording. (For the purpose of the public hearing required in § 276 of the Town Law, the final plat shall be regarded as the plat on which the hearing shall be held.)
PRELIMINARY PLANA tentative subdivision plan, in lesser detail than the final plat, indicating the approximate proposed layout of a subdivision as a basis for study and consideration prior to preparation of the final plat.
SKETCH PLANAn informal plan, not necessarily exact scale, indicating salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of a proposed subdivision.
The following classifications of subdivisions shall be known as "simple subdivisions" and shall be considered and approved, approved with modifications or disapproved by the Zoning Enforcement Officer as set forth in § 185-3.1 herein.
[Added 10-11-2000 by L.L. No. 4-2000]
Subdivisions involving the mere adjustment of
existing lot lines or lot lines shown on an approved, yet unfiled
plat map, without the creation of new streets, curb cuts, infrastructures
or building lots.
Subdivisions involving the elimination of existing
lot lines so as to consolidate one or more lots into a lesser number
and not involving the creation of new streets, curb cuts, infrastructure
or building lots.
A public way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as
a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard,
lane, drive, place or other similar designation. The following functional
classification is used in these regulations:
ARTERIAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic, usually with complete or partial control over access from abutting property.
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from local streets to major system of arterial streets and highways.
CUL-DE-SAC STREETSLocal streets with one end open for public vehicle and pedestrian access and the other end terminating in a vehicular turnaround. The length of a cul-de-sac street shall be measured along the center line from its intersection with the center line of the street from which it runs to the center of the cul-de-sac turnaround.
LOCAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSLocal streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
SERVICE DRIVESMinor private ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
The division of any part, parcel or area of land by the owner
or agent either by lots or metes and bounds into two or more lots,
blocks or parcels for the purpose of conveyance, transfer, improvement,
building development or sale. A subdivision shall not include, however,
the division of land for agricultural purposes into two or more lots,
each five acres or more in area. The term "subdivision" includes resubdivision.
[Amended 7-24-2013 by L.L. No. 7-2013]
The area outside the boundaries of the City of Syracuse and
extending three miles therefrom within which the City of Syracuse
exercises subdivision control powers by statutory and charter provisions.
