For the purpose of these regulations, certain
words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
That person who shall be designated to perform the duties
of the Clerk of the Planning Board for all purposes of these regulations.
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the town prepared by the Planning Board
pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law, which indicates the
general locations recommended for various public works and reservations
and for the general physical development of the town and includes
any part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such
plan or parts thereof.
[Amended 4-18-2000 by L.L. No. 1-2000]
The Design Criteria and Construction Specifications for Land
Development of the Town of Parma as adopted or used as a policy document,
and any amendments or additions thereto.
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers
or drainage ditches, or required along a natural stream or watercourse
for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein
to safeguard the public against flood damage.
The lands created through authorization by a property owner
for the use by another and for a specified purpose of any designated
part of his property.
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and by Article V of 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 Monroe County Clerk.
Any security which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement
that certain improvements be made before the Planning Board approves
a plat, including letters of credit, escrow agreements and other similar
collateral or surety agreements.
A piece, parcel or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer
of ownership or for development.
The map, if any, established by the Town Board under § 270
of the Town Law showing the streets, highways and parks heretofore
laid out, adopted and established by law, and any amendments 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 Town of Parma Planning Board as established pursuant
to the provisions of Article 16 of the Town Law.
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Board for its consideration and meeting the requirements of Article V.
A right-of-way providing access to more than one building
site with maintenance shared between the several owners of the property
served by the right-of-way.
Revision of all or part of an existing filed plat including
consolidation of lots.
The legally established lines within a lot in which Chapter 165, Zoning, allows development. The front setback line shall be measured from the edge of the highway right-of-way, after road widening dedication, and the distance shall be measured perpendicular to it.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley
or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway
or way shown upon a plat theretofore approved pursuant to law or approved
by official action, or a street or way on a plat duly filed and recorded
in the office of the County Clerk of Monroe County prior to the appointment
of a Planning Board and the grant to such Board of the power to review
plats, and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved
or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks,
parking area and other areas within the street lines. The term "street"
shall only apply to those ways dedicated or claimed to be dedicated
to the public. For nonpublic ways see "private drives." For the purpose
of these regulations, streets shall be classified as follows:
ARTERIAL STREETS- Streets which are used or designed primarily for through or heavy traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETS- Streets which carry traffic from minor streets to arterial streets.
MINOR STREETS- Streets which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETS- Minor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets, and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
DEAD-END STREET or CUL-DE-SAC- A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular outlet.
ALLEYS- Minor rights-of-way which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of lots otherwise abutting on a street.
TURNAROUND- Turning circle or other approved method of turnaround at inner end of a dead-end street.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
The distance between property lines or right-of-way lines.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who shall lay out, for the purpose of sale, lease, transfer of ownership
or development, 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,
sites, parcels or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of sale, lease or transfer of ownership or for
building development, and shall include resubdivision. The term "subdivision"
may be used to include all divisions or may refer to divisions which
do not fit the "one-lot" subdivision definition. Where there is a
question regarding proper interpretation of the term, and standards
and procedures herein, it shall be the responsibility of the Planning
Board to provide clarification.
Any subdivision consisting of one building site on a parcel
of land owned by the applicant, or the development of a previously
approved subdivision lot or unplatted parcel for which building site
information was not previously submitted under other provisions of
these regulations or in accord with previous subdivision procedures.
The duly designated engineer of the Town of Parma.
A map established by the Town Board pursuant to §§ 270
and 273 of the Town Law, or additions thereto resulting from the approval
of subdivisions by the Planning Board and the filing of such plats
pursuant to § 279 of the Town Law.
[Amended 4-18-2000 by L.L. No. 1-2000]
Those plats where 20% or more of the lots within the plat
are unimproved unless existing conditions, such as poor drainage,
have prevented their development.
The officially adopted Zoning Local Law or Ordinance of the
Town of Parma, together with any and all amendments thereto.[1]
