In order that land subdivisions may be made in accordance with this policy, this Part 2 shall be known as and may be cited as the "Village of Woodbury Land Subdivision Regulations."
The Clerk of the Village, said Village having authorized its Planning Board to approve plats showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, or the entire or partial development of plats filed in the office of the Orange County Clerk in which such plats are located or to approve preliminary plats, as provided in this Part 2, shall immediately file a certificate of that fact with the Orange County Clerk.
As used in this Part 2, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BOUNDARY OR LOT LINE CHANGE
Relocation or revision of a lot line of a lot, which revision is not intended to create a new lot for development purposes and which revision will result in land area to become part of an existing adjacent lot or parcel, provided that such boundary line change or lot line change does not create or increase any nonconformity, does not create a parcel at variance with the bulk requirements of the zoning district in which such parcel is located and, in the opinion of the Planning Board, does not present any major planning issues.
[Amended 4-26-2011 by L.L. No. 2-2011]
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan as provided for in § 7-722 of the Village Law, identifying the goals, objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards, devices and instruments for the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the Village.
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL
The approval of a final plat subject to conditions set forth by the Planning Board in its resolution conditionally approving the plat. Conditional approval does not qualify the final plat for recording. At the time of the resolution conditionally approving the plat, the Planning Board must empower a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board to sign the plat, subject to completion of the requirements stated in the resolution. Upon completion of these requirements, the plat must be signed by the officer so designated and filed in the Orange County Clerk's office in accordance with the provision of the Village Law § 7-728 and this Part 2.
CONSTRUCTION PLAN
A drawing or set of drawings, conforming to the final plat, showing details of engineering and construction as required by § 272-29.
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.
FINAL PLAT
A drawing in final form, prepared in a manner prescribed by local regulation, showing a proposed subdivision, containing in such additional detail as shall be provided by local regulation or any other applicable state law or local law, ordinance, rule, regulation or resolution all information required to appear on a preliminary plat and the modifications, if any, required by the Planning Board at the time of approval of a preliminary plat of such proposed subdivision, if such preliminary plat has been so approved.
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
The signing of a final plat by a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board after a resolution granting final approval to the plat or after conditions specified in a resolution granting conditional approval of the plat are completed. Such final approval qualifies the plat for recording in the Orange County Clerk's office.
HIGHWAY
See "street."
LOT
A parcel or portion of land separated from other parcels or portions for purpose of sale, lease or separate use by means of a description as indicated by a subdivision plat, a recorded map or deed or by metes and bounds or separated by a public street or railroad right-of-way.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map, if adopted by the Village Board under § 7-724 of the Village Law, showing the streets, highways and parks theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law and any amendments thereto adopted by the Village Board resulting from approval of subdivision plats by the Planning Board and the subsequent filing for record of such approved plats.
OFFICIAL SUBMITTAL DATE
The date on which a subdivision plat is considered officially submitted to the Planning Board pursuant to § 7-728 of the Village Law and hereby defined as the date the Planning Board receives the formal subdivision in proper form as provided for in Article VIII of this Part 2.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
A district in which a planned mix of residential, commercial and industrial uses is sanctioned, the plan for which does not necessarily correspond in lot size, bulk or type of dwelling or commercial use, density, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in any districts created in the Village of Woodbury, which is calculated to achieve compatible and efficient use of the land.
PLANNING BOARD or BOARD
The Planning Board of the Village of Woodbury.
PLAT, FINAL
A drawing prepared in a manner prescribed by local regulation showing a proposed subdivision or a planned unit development, containing in such additional detail as shall be provided by local regulation all information required to appear on a preliminary plat and the modifications, if any, required by the Planning Board at the time of approval of the preliminary plat of such proposed subdivision, if such preliminary plat has been so approved.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY
A drawing prepared in a manner prescribed by local regulation, showing the salient features of the layout of a proposed subdivision submitted to the Planning Board for purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form, including but not restricted to road and lot layout and approximate dimensions, key plan, topography and drainage, all proposed facilities unsized, including preliminary plans and profiles, at suitable scale and in such detail as local regulation may require.
PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL
The approval by the Planning Board of the layout of a proposed subdivision as set forth in a preliminary plat but subject to approval of the plat in final form in accordance with the provisions of this Part 2.
ROAD SPECIFICATIONS
The minimum acceptable standards of street construction for proposed roads within subdivisions, as adopted by the Village Board as highway specifications.
SITE
The total land of any owner, whether part or all of such owner's land is submitted for plat approval.
STREET
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, parkway, thruway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however else designated. Unless the boundary of a street is established at a width of less than 50 feet by a legal description of record or by a wall, a fence or other monuments, the boundary of the same shall be presumed to be not less than 25 feet from the center line of the traveled way and may be located at a substantially greater distance from such center line. The term "street" includes the land between the street boundary lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, planted strips, parking areas and other areas within street boundaries.
STREET COLLECTOR
A street which carries traffic from local or minor streets to major or Village arterial streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of larger residential developments.
STREET, DEAD-END OR CUL-DE-SAC
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
STREET, EMERGENCY ACCESS
A street not normally open for public use, but which may be approved in conjunction with a subdivision plat as a secondary means of access to a lot or subdivision for emergency access only.
STREET, LOCAL OR MINOR
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
STREET, MAJOR OR VILLAGE ARTERIAL
A street which serves or is designated to serve heavy flows of through traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between communities and/or other heavy traffic between communities and/or other heavy traffic-generating areas.
STREET, MARGINAL
A street which is parallel to and adjacent to major or Village arterial streets, and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY
The full width of a publicly maintained traveled way, whether acquired through dedication or by use. It may include pavement, shoulders, ditches or gutters, culverts or sluice ways. It may be defined in metes and bounds and be filed with the proper authorities or it may have been used and maintained by the public for a period of 10 years or more.
STREET, SERVICE
A street located on private property designed to provide access to the buildings on the property for the purposes of delivery of goods, equipment or materials or for the repair and maintenance of such buildings.
STREET, TAP OR STUB
A street designed to provide a connection to possible future development outside the subdivision so that continuity of traffic circulation can be maintained.
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
A. 
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, plots, sites or the other divisions of land for immediate or future sale or for building development, regardless of whether or not any new streets or highways are created or to be created; or
B. 
The development of a plat already filed in the Orange County Clerk's office, if such plat is entirely or partially undeveloped and regardless or whether or not streets or highways are shown on said plat.
SUBDIVISION, MINOR
Any subdivision or series of subdivisions containing no more than four lots (excluding the parent parcel from which they are subdivided) over a ten-year period.
[Added 4-9-2020 by L.L. No. 3-2020]
SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGHWAYS
The Highway Superintendent of the Town of Woodbury.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
VILLAGE
The Village of Woodbury in the County of Orange and the State of New York.
VILLAGE BOARD
The Village Board of the Village of Woodbury.
VILLAGE ENGINEER
The duly designated Engineer of the Village.
ZONING ORDINANCE
Chapter 310, Zoning, of the Code of the Village of Woodbury.
All developments governed by this Part 2 shall comply with Chapter 143, Fees, for the reimbursement of consulting fees; Chapter 8, Architectural Review Board, creating an Architectural Review Board; Part 1 of this chapter requiring central water and sewers in developments; General Municipal Law § 239-n requiring certain subdivision plats to be submitted to the Orange County Planning Department for approval; the Village Law § 7-738 for clustering; Environmental Conservation Law §§ 8-0101 to 8-0115, Environmental Quality Review, and §§ 24-0101 to 24-1303, Freshwater Wetlands.
[Added 3-23-2023 by L.L. No. 5-2023]
An application pending before the Planning Board shall be deemed abandoned and withdrawn by the applicant, and shall be discontinued by the Board, after a lapse of 12 months without reasonable steps having been taken by the applicant to advance the application, brought to the attention of the Planning Board by way of a status report or other similar action. After a lapse of 11 months, and prior to the application being discontinued by the Board, the Board shall advise the applicant in writing that the project will be discontinued within 30 days. The Board may, within 60 days thereafter, entertain a request for reinstatement of the abandoned application based on good cause shown. Upon the discontinuance of an abandoned application, the applicant shall be entitled to receive a refund of any unexpended sums held on deposit by the Village in connection with the application, and shall be responsible for reimbursement to the Village of any reimbursable costs attributable to the application which the deposit was insufficient to satisfy.
[Amended 4-9-2020 by L.L. No. 3-2020]
In the case of a minor subdivision, the Planning Board in its discretion may waive any or all of the requirements of this Part 2, except the requirements of a public hearing; provided, however, that a plot plan of said minor subdivision with metes and bounds description certified by a licensed surveyor shall be presented by the subdivider to the Planning Board for its approval and shall be filed with a notation thereon as to the provisions of this Part 2 which are waived as to said subdivision.