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AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES
APPLICANT
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
COLLECTOR ROAD (BUSINESS/INDUSTRIAL)
COMMISSION
CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION STANDARD SHEETS
CONNECTICUT GUIDELINES FOR SOIL EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL
CONNECTICUT STORMWATER QUALITY MANUAL
CONSTRUCTION COORDINATOR
CRITERIA
CUL-DE-SAC
DEAD-END ROAD
DEAD-END ROAD, PERMANENT
DEAD-END ROAD, TEMPORARY
DEVELOPER
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
DRIVEWAY
LOCAL RESIDENTIAL ROAD
MANUAL OF UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL
PRIVATE PROPERTY
PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL ROAD
PUBLIC ROAD
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE
RIGHT-OF-WAY, ROAD
ROAD/ROADWAY
STANDARD DETAIL DRAWINGS
STANDARDS
STATE
STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
STATE STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS
STATE STATUTES
STORMWATER
STREET
THROUGH TRAFFIC
TOWN
TOWN ATTORNEY
TOWN ENGINEER
TOWN PLANNER
TOWN ROAD
TOWN'S CONSTRUCTION INSPECTOR
TURNAROUND
WATERCOURSE/WETLANDS
General. For the purpose of these Design and Construction Standards,
the terms and words listed below shall have the following meanings
assigned to them.
Appendix A to Part 36 entitled "ADA Accessibility Guidelines
for Buildings and Facilities," as published in the Federal Register,
Vol. 56, No. 144, Friday, July 26, 1991, including any revisions.
Any person, partnership, or corporation who shall make an
application for approval under the provisions of these Design and
Construction Standards either for himself or as an agent for others.
A board of officials elected to administer the public business
of a town.
Roads used or intended primarily for access to and from individual
business or industrial lots, receiving traffic from more than two
local access roads, or collecting traffic from local access roads
and channeling traffic to principal arterial roads.
The Old Lyme Planning Commission or its designated agent.
The most current detail drawings, including all revisions
thereto, as issued by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
The most current document entitled "Connecticut Guidelines
for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control," including all corrections
thereto, as published by the Connecticut Council on Soil and Water
Conservation.
The most current document entitled "2004 Connecticut Stormwater
Quality Manual," including all corrections thereto, as published by
the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Any person designated by the applicant to communicate with the Town pursuant to § 187-12C of these Design and Construction Standards.
A dead-end road with a turnaround.
A proposed road, or any extension of an existing road, or
any combination or pattern of roads or extension thereof, having only
one outlet to a through state or Town road.
A dead-end road with a permanent turnaround and designed
and intended to permanently terminate at the turnaround, rather than
for future expansions.
A dead-end road with a temporary turnaround and designed
and intended for extension on the same parcel or adjacent parcels.
The applicant, or any heir, successor, or assign of the applicant,
who shall perform the public improvements within the scope of these
Design and Construction Standards.
The Old Lyme Director of Public Works or his/her designated
agent.
A private vehicular accessway serving no more than three
lots that has not been accepted as a public road by the Town or approved
as a private road by the Commission.
Roads used or intended primarily for access to and from individual
residential lots or parcels.
The most current document entitled "Manual on Uniform Traffic
Control Devices for Roads and Highways," as published by the United
States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration.
Property owned by persons, partnerships or corporations other
than the Town of Old Lyme.
A road permitted in accordance with the Old Lyme Subdivision
Regulations[1] that is subject to a restriction specifying that the road
shall be privately maintained and is not offered to, accepted or maintained
by the Town of Old Lyme.
Any road lawfully accepted by the Town or the State of Connecticut
for public travel.
The Old Lyme Public Works Department.
An easement in favor of the Town for a Town road, or the
entity that will own and maintain a private road; such easement being
for the purpose of stormwater management structures and measures.
A strip of land conveyed in fee simple and intended for,
or dedicated and accepted for, the purpose of vehicular traffic, which
includes use for the roadway, sidewalks, drainage facilities, shoulders
and other improvements.
All surfaces, either paved or unpaved, constructed, designated
and used to carry or guide vehicular traffic between different lots
or parcels within or outside of Town. The term does not include driveways
or parking lots.
The Standard Detail Drawings appended to the Old Lyme Design
and Construction Standards as figures shown in Appendix A,[2] as may be amended from time to time, the contents of which
shall be considered as criteria and standards.
The State of Connecticut.
The State of Connecticut Department of Transportation.
The most current document entitled "Standard Specifications
for Road, Bridges and Incidental Construction," and all additions,
revisions, and supplements thereto, as published by the Connecticut
Department of Transportation at the time of the work or installation
of improvements.
The most current document entitled "General Statutes of Connecticut,"
including all volumes and revisions thereto.
Excess precipitation, after accounting for all losses, which
becomes surface runoff.
Same as "road/roadway."
When used in reference to a particular road or category of
roads, "through traffic" means traffic that is using the road only
to gain access to another road.
The Town of Old Lyme.
The attorney or law firm appointed by the Old Lyme Board
of Selectmen to represent the Town of Old Lyme.
The engineer or engineering firm appointed by the Old Lyme
Board of Selectmen to represent the Town of Old Lyme.
The Old Lyme Town Planner or his/her authorized agent.
Any pubic road lawfully accepted by the Town for public vehicular
travel.
The person or persons assigned by the Board of Selectmen
or Commission, as applicable, who provides periodic or full-time observation
of the construction of public improvements.
The paved area at the terminus of a cul-de-sac road designed
and intended to allow vehicles to safely reverse direction.
Areas designated and defined as "watercourses" and "inland
wetlands" by the Old Lyme Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission,
pursuant to its Regulations, as the same may be amended from time
to time.[3]
