For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms and phrases,
whenever they appear, shall have the meanings herein stated:
The person, owner, agent, corporation or other party requesting
Planning Board action or approval of a subdivision and identifying
himself as such on the Planning Board's application form.
The duly constituted governing body of the Village of Buchanan.
The duly constituted Planning Board of the Village of Buchanan,
Westchester County, New York.
The drawing or drawings required by this chapter, as more particularly described in § 171-22 hereof.
The duly appointed legal officer of the Village of Buchanan.
The County Clerk of Westchester County, New York.
A property right giving the owner or holder thereof the right
of access to land for a specified purpose.
The duly appointed Engineer for the Village of Buchanan.
The duly appointed Health Officer having jurisdiction over
realty subdivisions, domestic water supply and sewerage in the County
of Westchester.
The comprehensive plan prepared by the Planning Board, which
plan indicates the general locations recommended for the various functional
classes of public works, places and structures, and for the general
physical development of the Village of Buchanan, and includes any
unit or part of such plan separately adopted, and any amendments to
such plan or parts thereof.
The map established by the Village Board under § 7-724
of the Village Law, showing the streets, highways, parks and drainage
systems therefor laid out, adopted and established by law, and any
amendments thereto adopted by the Village Board, or additions thereto,
resulting from the approval of subdivision plats by the Planning Board
and subsequent filing of such approved plats.
[Amended 10-18-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
The date or dates on which a subdivision is considered officially submitted to the Planning Board and hereby defined as the date or dates on which the Board receives the required drawings in full compliance with the provisions of Article V of this chapter, unless otherwise provided in this chapter.
[Amended 10-18-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
The sketch map or plan required by this chapter, as more particularly described in § 171-20 hereof.
A change in a map of an approved or recorded subdivision
plat if such change affects any street layout 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.
[Amended 10-18-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
A way for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, more particularly
defined to include the following:
ARTERIAL STREETS AND HIGHWAYSThose streets used primarily for traffic with limited access to adjoining land.
MAJOR STREETSStreets which carry traffic from a minor street to business, industrial and other traffic-generating areas.
MINOR STREETSStreets used primarily for access to abutting residential properties.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSStreets generally parallel and adjacent to arterial streets and which provide access to abutting properties with protection from heavy traffic.
DEAD-END STREETA street or portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who or which shall lay out, for the purpose of sale or development,
any subdivision or part thereof, as defined herein, either for himself
or others.
Any land, vacant or improved, which is divided or proposed
to be divided into two or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots
or interests for the purpose of offer, sale, lease or development,
either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms
and conditions, including resubdivision. "Subdivision" includes the
division or development of residential and nonresidential zoned land,
whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise, intestacy,
lease, map, plat or other recorded instrument.
[Amended 10-18-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
Any subdivision involving any new street or road, the extension
of municipal facilities or the creation of any public improvements.
[Added 10-18-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
Any subdivision fronting on an existing street or road, not
involving any new street or road, the extension of municipal services
or the creation of any public improvements. Minor subdivisions shall
be further classified as follows:
[Added 10-18-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
The final drawing, map or plan required by this chapter, as more particularly described in § 171-21 hereof.
See the definition of "Corporation Counsel."[1]
The map of the Village in existence at the time this chapter
goes into effect, as modified from time to time, showing the location
and width of streets in the Village in use as public streets, as well
as the lines of future street widenings and extensions.
[Amended 10-18-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982]
The duly adopted Zoning Ordinance and Map of the Village
of Buchanan, Westchester County, New York, including any amendments
thereto.[2]
