As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The transfer of property between two contiguous owners whereby
no new lots are created.
The Comprehensive Plan adopted by the Planning Board for
the development of the entire area of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson
pursuant to § 7-722 of the Village Law, and includes any
parts of such plan separately adopted and any amendments to each plan
or parts thereof.
The approval 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. The subdivider has 90 days to
satisfy the requirements upon which the approval has been conditioned
and obtain the certification of the officer of the Planning Board.
This period may be extended by the Planning Board if, in its opinion,
the circumstances warrant this, for up to two additional ninety-day
periods.
The approval by the Village Planning Board of the layout
of the proposed subdivision as set forth in a preliminary plat, but
subject to approval of the plat in final form.
The working drawings and specifications for public improvements
and utilities involved in the plan of subdivision.
An architect, landscape architect, professional engineer
or other person licensed by the State of New York to practice site
planning and/or engineering. The "design professional's" responsibility
shall be as defined by state law.
Authorization by the property owner for the use by another,
for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State
of New York.
Final approval of a plat in final form is 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 office of the County Clerk.
Open space development which includes, but is not necessarily
limited to, the following existing and cultivated elements arranged
to produce an artful or otherwise desired effect: turf, meadow, rocks,
watercourses or water bodies, trees, shrubs, flowers, walls, berms,
swales, lanes, paths and other similar natural and man-made elements
or forms.
See "surveyor."
A parcel or portion of land separated from other parcels
or portions, for the purpose of sale, lease or separate use, by means
of a metes and bounds description, as indicated by a subdivision plat,
a recorded map or deed, or separated by a public street or railroad
right-of-way.
The map established by the Village Board pursuant to § 7-724
of the Village Law, showing streets, highways and parks and drainage,
both existing and proposed.
The date on which a subdivision plat is considered officially submitted to the Planning Board pursuant to § 7-728 of the Village Law, hereby defined as the date the Planning Board receives the formal subdivision plat in proper form as provided for in Article IV of this chapter.
Any parcel of land owned individually and separately and
separated in ownership from any adjoining tracts of land on the effective
date of this chapter, which has a total area which exceeds the minimum
requirements of the Zoning Law[1] and for which there exists the legal possibility of subdivision
or resubdivision.
A security which may be accepted by the Village Board in
lieu of a requirement that certain improvements be made before the
Planning Board gives final approval to a subdivision plat. Such security
shall be sufficient to cover the full cost of all uncompleted improvements
in the subdivision as estimated by the Planning Board or agency designated
by the Village Board. Securities shall include such collateral or
agreements acceptable to the Village Board or a bond issued by a surety
company, to run for a term not to exceed three years; provided, however,
that the term may be extended by the Village Board with the consent
of the parties thereto.
The Planning Board of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson.
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.
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.
A privately owned strip of land of less width than the lot
depth permitted by the applicable regulations, bounded on one side
by a proposed street and on the other by the boundary of a subdivision
containing said proposed street.
A change of an approved or recorded subdivision plat if such
change affects any street layout shown on such plat or area reserved
thereon for public use or any change of a lot line or if it affects
any map or plan legally recorded prior to the adoption of any regulations
controlling subdivisions.
The minimum acceptable standards of street construction for
proposed Village roads within subdivisions, as promulgated by this
chapter or as adopted separately.
The total contiguous land of any owner, whether part or all
of such owner's land is submitted for subdivision approval.
A first draft of a proposed subdivision 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 this chapter.
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street,
highway, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane or place,
or however else designated. The term "street" includes the land between
the street right-of-way lines, whether improved or unimproved, and
may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, planted strips,
parking areas and other areas within such street lines.
Those streets which carry traffic from minor streets to the
major system of arterial streets and highways, including the principal
entrance streets of large residential developments.
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular
traffic outlet.
A street which serves or is designated to serve heavy flows
of 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.
Those streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial
streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties
and protection from through traffic.
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting
properties.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
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.
A street designed to provide a connection to possible future
development outside the subdivision so that continuity of traffic
circulation can be maintained.
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 make application to lay out any subdivision or part thereof
as defined herein, either for himself or others, and who must be the
owner, duly authorized contract vendee or the duly authorized agent
of either.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
blocks or units with or without streets or highways. Such division
shall include subdivision of parcels of land for which an approved
plat has already been filed in the office of the County Clerk and
which is entirely or partially undeveloped. For the purposes of this
chapter, a parcel shall be considered already to have been subdivided
into two or more lots if bisected by one or more public streets or
railroad rights-of-way.
Any subdivision containing five or more lots.
Any subdivision containing three or four lots.
Any subdivision containing not more than two lots.
The Public Works Superintendent of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson.
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.
The record of the owner and description of the parcel held
on record in the Orange County Department of Real Property Tax Service.
A parcel of land or structure divided into two or more distinct
portions that will not be owned in fee simple.
The Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
The duly designated attorney of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson.
The duly elected and/or appointed Village Board of Trustees
of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
See "Comprehensive Plan".
The duly designated engineer of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson.
A street, right-of-way, easement, sidewalk or other land
reserved exclusively for pedestrians, bicycles, equestrians and other
nonmotorized circulation.
The Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson Zoning Law of 1977,[2] unless otherwise stipulated or indicated by references.
