These Subdivision Rules and Regulations (the "Regulations") are enacted in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Control Law, MGL c. 41, §§ 81M and 81Q, and for all of the purposes stated therein, including protecting the safety, convenience, and welfare of the inhabitants of the Town of Norwell, by regulating the laying out and construction of ways in subdivisions which provide 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 Planning Board shall exercise its powers under the Regulations and the Subdivision Control Law 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 the lessening of congestion in such ways and in the adjacent public ways; for securing safety in the case of fire, flood, panic, and other emergencies; for ensuring compliance with the Town of Norwell's Zoning Bylaw; for securing adequate provisions for water, sewerage, drainage, underground utility services, fire, police, and other municipal equipment and services, 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.
The Regulations have been adopted under MGL c. 41, § 81Q. The Planning Board shall administer the Regulations and have all of the powers assigned to it under MGL c. 41, §§ 81K to 81GG, inclusive (the Subdivision Control Law).
The Regulations or any portion may be amended, supplemented, or repealed from time to time by the Planning Board under MGL c. 41, § 81Q.
The final determination of the invalidity of any section, subsection or provision of the Regulations shall not invalidate any other section, subsection or provision thereof. If any provision of the Regulations is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid as applied in a particular case, all other applications of such provisions to other cases shall not be affected thereby.