As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any record owner according to the most recent Assessor's
Map, whose property abuts, is contiguous to or joins at a border or
boundary to the subject parcel.
A street which conducts traffic between communities and activity
centers with high traffic volumes: over three thousand (3,000) vehicles
per day.
The Planning Board of the Town of Ashland.
A street which collects or may reasonably be expected to
collect or service traffic from several streets or which handles traffic
equivalent to that generated by fifty (50) dwelling units or more
or which serves nonresidential abutting property. Average daily traffic
ranges from five hundred (500) to three thousand (3,000) vehicles
per day.
A street that carries or services traffic generated by ten
(10) or fewer dwelling units and does not service nonresidential abutting
property and is not capable of extension. Average daily traffic is
up to two hundred fifty (250) vehicles per day.
An area of land in one (1) ownership, with definite boundaries,
used or available for use as the site of one (1) or more buildings.
A street that carries, collects or may reasonably be expected
to collect, service or carry traffic generated by fewer than fifty
(50) dwelling units, does not service nonresidential abutting property
and is not a lane. Average daily traffic ranges from two hundred fifty
(250) to one thousand (1,000) vehicles per day.
The square of the lot perimeter divided by the gross area
of the lot does not exceed twenty-two (22).
Any record owner according to the most recent Assessor's
Map who is not an abuttor but whose property is within three hundred
fifty (350) feet of the exterior lines of the subject parcel.
The division of a tract of land into two (2) or more lots
and includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates
to the process of subdivision of the land or territory subdivided;
provided, however, that the division of a tract of land into two (2)
or more lots shall not be deemed to constitute a "subdivision" within
the meaning of the Subdivision Control Law if, at the time when it
is made, every lot within the tract so divided has frontage on a public
way or a way which the Clerk of the Town of Ashland certifies is maintained
and used as a public way; or a way shown on a plan therefore approved
in accordance with the Subdivision Control Law; or a way in the Town
of Ashland in which the land lies having, in the opinion of the Planning
Board, sufficient width, suitable grades and adequate construction
to provide for the needs of vehicular traffic in relation to the proposed
use of the land abutting thereon or served thereby and for the installation
of municipal services to serve such land and the buildings erected
or to be erected thereon. Such frontage shall be of at least such
distance as is then required by zoning or other bylaw, if any, of
the Town of Ashland for the erection of a building on such lot. Conveyances
or other instruments adding to, taking away from or changing the size
and shape of lots in such manner as not to leave any lot so affected
without the frontage above set forth or the division of a tract of
land on which two (2) or more buildings were standing when the Subdivision
Control Law went into effect in the Town of Ashland in which the land
lies into separate lots, on each of which one (1) of such buildings
remains standing, shall not constitute a "subdivision."
Includes, but is not limited to, gas, electric, telephone,
cable, water, sewer and drains.
