For the purpose of these rules and regulations the words and
terms used shall have the meaning defined herein, unless the context
clearly indicates otherwise, and references to bylaws, boards, commissions,
departments and officials shall mean those of the Town of Plainville
unless otherwise indicated.
A policy on geometric design of highways and streets developed
by AASHTO for highway materials and methods of sampling testing adopted
by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
Manual of Concrete Practice published by the American Concrete
Institute.
Owner of land shown on a plan submitted for Board action,
acting personally or through a designated representative, or the owner's
assigns. The authority of a representative or one of several owners
to act must be in writing.
A permanent or temporary dead-end street of not more than
eight dwellings, total. This category is meant to include, but not
be limited to, cul-de-sac, loop, hammerhead turnarounds, and other
dead-end street types.
[Amended 7-28-2005]
A way carrying or expected to carry in the opinion of the
Planning Board volumes in excess of 2,000 vehicles per day of primarily
through traffic between communities, neighborhoods or major subdivisions.
Standard specifications published by the American Society
for Testing and Materials.
The Planning Board of the Town of Plainville, Massachusetts,
acting through a majority of members thereof.
A way which collects or is expected to collect traffic from
several local streets or subdivisions or can be expected to carry
volumes in excess of 1,000 vehicles per day or more than 30% of through
traffic or 12% of truck traffic.
A segment of a street which only intersects another street
at one end. For the purposes of this regulation any proposed street
which intersects solely with a dead-end street shall be deemed to
be an extension of the dead-end street.
[Amended 7-28-2005]
A complete final plan of a subdivision together with all
special plans and supporting materials, such as calculations and list
of abutters, as required by these rules and regulations.
The Standard Specifications for Highways and Bridges of the
Massachusetts Department of Public Works, dated 1973, including all
revisions thereto.
The Construction Standards of 1977 of the Massachusetts Department
of Public Works, as most recently amended.
A man-made basin, diked area, depression and/or related structures
for the purpose of slowing the rate at which stormwater is discharged
from the site, and which may involve temporary backup of water during
and immediately following a storm event.
Same as "Applicant."
A private way utilized only for access to a single-family
or multifamily dwelling.
A secondary means of ingress to or egress from a development, residential, commercial or industrial, which provides year-round, twenty-four-hour-per-day accesses open to all residents, visitors, employees, patrons, and services of the development, and which provides standard construction quality as to materials, depths and thicknesses prescribed in § 540-36L of these regulations.
A registered professional civil engineer in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts experienced in the phases of civil engineering related
to subdivision planning and design.
For the purpose of these regulations, physical access, or
the demonstrated feasibility of safe physical access, to a property
from a street designed for such purposes, i.e., collector and minor
residential streets excluding wetlands, ledge, and areas of slope
in excess of 10%.
A person who is a registered land surveyor in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
The full strip of land designated as a way or street as distinguished
from the roadway. A way.
A way carrying and expected to carry primarily the traffic
generated by or designed for the adjoining minor and local streets
in the same subdivision.
An area of land in one ownership, with definite boundaries,
used or available for use as the site of one or more buildings.
A dead-end street or a street which because of its location
or other factors does not and is not expected to carry the traffic
other than that generated by or destined for not more than 12 abutting
residences.
Sewers, pump stations, surface water drains, water pipes,
gas pipes, streets, sidewalks, electric lines, telephone lines, fire
alarm facilities, and their respective appurtenances.
A plan of a proposed subdivision or resubdivision or a full-size
copy of such plan showing at minimum the following information:
Subdivision name, boundaries, North point, date, scale, legend
and title "Preliminary Plan" and the names of the applicants/owners
of record and the designer, engineer or surveyor;
The names of owners of all abutting lots obtained from the most
recent local tax list; the names, approximate location and width of
all streets within 150 feet;
The existing and proposed lines of streets, ways, easements,
and of any public area within or next to the subdivision in a general
manner;
The approximate boundary lines, areas and dimensions of all
existing and proposed lots within the subdivision;
The proposed system of drainage, including existing adjacent
waterways, in a general manner;
Existing and proposed topography of the land in a general manner;
Existing buildings and significant structures in a general manner,
identifying those to be removed or modified;
A preliminary plan is not recorded and its approval does not
mean the approval of a subdivision.
Recording in the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds or filing
in the Land Registration Office (Land Court).
A man-made basin, depression, dike, and/or related structure
for the purpose of detaining or impounding stormwater on a site, but
which have no free-flowing outlet, e.g., a pipe or weir, to allow
stormwater from small storm events to be discharged to a natural watercourse
or wetland. Leaching pits, or similar ground discharge structures,
shall not constitute an outlet in the meaning of this definition.
That portion of a street designed, intended or used for vehicular
traffic, the pavement.
A strip of land open, dedicated and approved for use as a public
thoroughfare, including:
Public way, laid out by the Town, county or the commonwealth
or a way certified by the Town Clerk to have been used and maintained
by public authorities as a public way;
Private way shown on a definitive plan approved by the Planning
Board;
A way in existence when the Subdivision Control Law[1] became effective in the Town of Plainville and having,
in the opinion of the Planning Board, adequate width, grades, and
construction for the vehicular traffic and the installations of municipal
services to serve the land abutting on such way and the building erected
or to be erected on such land.
A street shall not be deemed to provide access and frontage
with respect to land physically or legally inaccessible from such
street or way, such as a limited access state highway.
The division of a tract of land into two or more lots, including the process and the land being subdivided and including a resubdivision where applicable; provided that the division as above shall not be deemed to constitute a subdivision if, at the time when it is made, every lot within the tract so divided has frontage on a way as defined herein of a least such distance as is required by Chapter 500, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Plainville for the erection of buildings on such lot. Conveyances changing the size or shape of lots so as not to leave any lot affected without the frontage above set forth, or the division of a tract of land on which two or more nonaccessory buildings were standing when the Subdivision Control Law[2] went into effect in Plainville into separate lots, on
each of which one of such buildings remains standing, shall not constitute
a subdivision.
The power to regulate the subdivision of land granted by
the Subdivision Control Law, MGL c. 41, §§ 81K through
81GG, inclusive, as amended from time to time, and including, when
apt, the corresponding provisions of earlier laws.
Same as "municipal service"; may include water supply, sewerage,
fire alarm conduits, shade trees, street signs, electricity, gas,
cable TV, and other facilities, conduits, and services customarily
provided by communities for their inhabitants.
The area of contribution to a surface water body. It is defined
by topographic high points.
