For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms used herein
are defined as follows:
The owner of land proposed to be subdivided or his representative.
The maps or drawings accompanying a subdivision plat and showing
the specific location and design of improvements to be installed in the subdivision
in accordance with the requirements of the Planning Board as a condition of
the approval of said plat.
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.
Includes any street to be constructed by the developer or any existing
street in which development shall take place on both sides.
[Added 3-27-1986]
The adjustment of a boundary between two lots, irrespective of ownership,
whereby both lots will conform to all applicable requirements of the Zoning
Code after such adjustment.[1] A lot line change is not a subdivision or resubdivision.
[Added 11-13-2001 by L.L.
No. 7-2001]
A comprehensive plan for development of the Town, prepared by the
Planning Board and recommended to the Town Board for adoption pursuant to
§ 272-a of the Town Law, and includes any part of such plan separately
adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
[Amended 6-8-1999 by L. L. No. 7-1999]
The map established by the Town Board under § 270 of the
Town Law, showing streets, highways and parks and drainage systems theretofore
laid out, adopted and established by law and any amendments or additions thereto
adopted by the Town Board or additions thereto resulting from the approval
of subdivision plats by the Planning Board and the subsequent filing of such
approved plats.
The date on which a subdivision plat is officially submitted to the Planning Board pursuant to § 276 of the Town Law, hereby defined as the date of the next regular meeting of the Planning Board following completion of the application procedure outlined in § 191-14 of these regulations.
The Town Planning Board.
See definition of "subdivision plat."
The preliminary drawing or drawings, described in § 191-31 of these regulations, indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Board for its approval.
A change in a map of an approved or recorded subdivision plat if
such change affects any street layout shown on such map or area reserved thereon
for public use or any lot line or if it affects any map or plan legally recorded
prior to the adoption of any regulations controlling subdivisions.
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other vehicular ways.
[Added 3-27-1986]
A road which serves or is designed to carry traffic from local residential
streets to secondary streets.
[Added 3-27-1986]
A road or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
[Added 3-27-1986]
A road intended to serve primarily as an access to residential or
nonresidential properties.
[Added 3-27-1986]
A road which is used primarily as a route for traffic between communities
or large areas.
[Added 3-27-1986]
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic,
excluding curbs or gutters.
[Added 3-27-1986]
Includes any existing street to which the parcel of land to be subdivided
abuts on only one side.
[Added 3-27-1986]
The distance between property lines measured at right angles to the
center line of the street.
[Added 3-27-1986]
A sketch of the preliminary plat described in § 191-31, or the subdivision plat in the case of minor subdivisions.
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other ways.
[2]Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who shall
lay out, for the purpose of sale or development, any subdivision or part thereof,
as defined herein.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, plots,
sites or other divisions of land, with or without new streets, for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building development
and shall include resubdivision.
All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions, including
but not limited to subdivision of four or more lots, or any size subdivision
requiring any new street or extension of municipal facilities.
Any subdivision containing not more than three 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, Official Map or Chapter 215, Zoning, if such exists, or this article.
The final map or drawing, described in § 191-34 of these regulations, on which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented to the Planning Board for approval and which, if approved, may be submitted to the County Clerk for recording.
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
The duly designated engineer of the Town.
The officially adopted Zoning Ordinance of the Town, together with
any and all amendments thereto.
[3][2]
Editor's Note: The former definitions of "street, commercial or industrial,"
"street, dead-end," "street, major or through," "street pavement," "street
right-of-way width," "street, rural," and "street, suburban," which immediately
followed this definition were repealed 3-27-1986.
