These subdivision regulations are adopted under the provisions
of Chapter 41 of the Massachusetts General Laws for the purpose of
protecting the safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lunenburg by ". . . regulating the laying out and construction
of ways in subdivisions providing access to the several lots therein,
but which have not become public ways and ensuring sanitary conditions
in subdivisions and in proper cases parks and open areas. The powers
of the Planning Board and of the Board of Appeals under the Subdivision
Control Law shall be exercised with due regard for the provision of
adequate access to all of the lots in a subdivision by ways that will
be safe and convenient for travel; for lessening congestion in such
ways and in adjacent public ways; for reducing danger of life and
limb in the operation of motor vehicles; for securing safety in the
case of fire, flood, panic and other emergencies; for ensuring compliance
with the Zoning Bylaw;[1] for securing adequate provision for water, sewage, drainage,
underground utility services, fire, police and other similar municipal
equipment and streetlighting and other requirements where necessary
in a subdivision; and for coordinating the ways in a subdivision with
each other and with the public ways in the Town and with the ways
in neighboring subdivisions" (MGL c. 41, § 81M).
Under the authority vested in the Planning Board of the Town
of Lunenburg by MGL c. 41, § 81Q, said Board hereby adopts
these Rules and Regulations Governing the Subdivision of Land in the
Town of Lunenburg. These regulations shall be effective after approved
by the Board and certified by the Register of Deeds and the Recorder
of the Land Court.
The following rules and regulations shall, from and after the
effective date thereof, govern the subdivision of land within the
Town of Lunenburg, and no person shall subdivide land in the Town
of Lunenburg after such effective date without complying with these
regulations and first obtaining from the Planning Board either approval
of the definitive plan for the proposed subdivision or the endorsement
"Approval Under the Subdivision Control Law Not Required" upon such
plan.
