By authority of ordinance and subsequent amendments adopted
by the City Council pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the
General City Law of the State of New York, the City Planning Board
is vested with the power and authority to approve new or revised plats
showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets, within the
City of Lackawanna, New York, and to approve the development of plats,
entirely or partially undeveloped and which have been filed in the
Office of the County Clerk prior to the appointment of the Board and
the grant to such body of the power to approve plats.
The purpose of these regulations shall be to provide rules,
regulations and standards to guide land subdivision within the City
of Lackawanna in order to promote the public health, safety, convenience
and general welfare of the City. They shall be administered to ensure
the orderly growth and development, conservation, protection and proper
use of land and adequate provision for circulation, utilities and
services and to ensure that land utilized for building purposes shall
be without danger to health or peril from fire, flood or other menace
and that provision is made for adequate light and air, fire protection,
recreation areas and other amenities.