For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms
used herein are defined as follows:
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway
for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular
traffic outlet.
A metes and bounds description prepared by a licensed land
surveyor.
[Added 11-10-2016 by L.L.
No. 6-2016]
A graphical representation of the property boundaries described
in the property deed document as recorded with the Jefferson County
Clerk.
A failure of an applicant to successfully and faithfully
implement an approved plat duly filed with the Jefferson County Clerk's
office in the manner approved by the Town of LeRay.
An area on private property providing access from a public
or private road to three or fewer lots where vehicles are operated
or allowed to stand.
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State
of New York.
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.
A parcel of land occupied or designed to be occupied by structures
and/or uses, including such open spaces as are required by this chapter,
having not less than the minimum area, width and depth required for
a lot in the district in which such land is situated, and having frontage
on a street or other means of access as may be determined by the Planning
Board to be adequate as a condition of the issuance of a zoning permit
to build on such land.
A lot with its widest point set back from the road at the
rear of another lot (called the flag), and having a thin strip of
land connecting to a road to provide legal access and frontage (called
the stem).
That side of a lot abutting on a road or right-of-way and
ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered
as the ordinary side line of a corner lot.
The stem portion of a flag lot abutting on a road or right-of-way
and ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not
be considered as any portion of the lot boundary directly adjacent
to the buildable area of the lot.
A transfer of land from one property owner to another intended
to increase the size of one lot while decreasing the size of the lot
from which it is transferred without, however, creating any new lots.
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision, including,
but not limited to, subdivisions of five or more lots, or any size
subdivision requiring any extension of municipal facilities.
Any subdivision containing not more than four lots not involving
any extension of municipal facilities and not adversely affecting
the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property.
A lot which is in the process of being or has been subdivided
into new, uniquely identified lots to create a multi-lot project.
The parent parcel is the designated remaining portions, if any, of
any originally subdivided parcel at the time of adoption of this chapter.
The parent parcel is not included in the calculation of new building
lots.
The Planning Board of the Town of LeRay.
A drawing or drawings, prepared by a surveyor licensed in the State of New York, that are clearly marked "preliminary plat," showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in § 135-7 of these regulations, submitted to the Planning Board for purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
A strip of land, either public or private, occupied or intended
to be occupied by a street, sidewalk, trail, railroad, electrical
transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm
sewer or other similar use.
A hand-drawn or electronic sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in § 135-5 of these regulations to enable the subdivider to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Planning Board as to the form of the layout and objectives of these regulations.
A permanently improved thoroughfare under public or private
ownership of a fixed width within an identified right-of-way which
affords the principal means of access to more than three lots; includes
streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other trafficways. See also "driveway."
MAJOR STREETA 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.
MINOR STREETA street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
The width of right-of-way, measured at right angles to the
center line of the street.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof, as defined herein,
either for himself or others.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, for the purpose
of conveyance, transfer of ownership, improvement, building development
or sale, and shall include(s) resubdivision. Tracts of land shall
constitute a subdivision upon sale, rental, offer for sale, lease
or building development.
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, and
which, if approved, may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant
in the office of the County Clerk or Register.
The duly designated Zoning Enforcement Officer of the Town.
