For the purpose of these regulations, certain
words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State
of New York.
The duly designated Engineer for the town.
A change in the boundary-line between two properties, thereby
transferring some property from one owner to the other or to correct
disputed property lines.
A Comprehensive Plan, prepared by the Planning Board pursuant
to § 272-a of the Town Law, which indicates the general
locations recommended for various functional classes of public works,
places and structures and for the general physical development of
the town and includes any unit or part of such plan separately prepared
and any amendment to such plan or parts therein.
The map established by the Town Board pursuant to § 270
of the Town Law, showing streets, highways and parks, both existing
and proposed.
A continuous tract or plot of land, and in one possession,
no part of which is separated from the rest by intervening land in
another possession. "Intervening land" in this definition shall not
mean a road or easement nor such topographical features as a pond,
lake or stream.
The Town Planning Board.
A drawing in a final form, prepared in a manner prescribed
by local regulation, showing a proposed subdivision, containing, in
such additional detail as shall be provided by local regulation, all
information required to appear on a preliminary plat and the modifications,
if any, required by the Planning Board at the time of approval of
a preliminary plat of such proposed subdivision if such preliminary
plat has been so approved.
A drawing prepared in a manner prescribed by local regulation,
showing the layout of a proposed subdivision, including but not restricted
to road and lot layout and approximate dimensions, key plan, topography
and drainage, all proposed facilities unsized, including preliminary
plans and profiles, at suitable scale and in such detail as local
regulation may require.
State Environmental Quality Review Act. State Law for environmental
review of projects (6 NYCRR Part 617).
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in § 179-3 of these regulations to enable the subdivider to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Planning Board as to the form of the layout and objectives of these regulations.
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other trafficways,
between right-of-way lines.
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway
for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular
traffic outlet.
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows
of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between
communities and/or other heavy-traffic-generating areas.
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting
properties.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
The width of right-of-way, measured at right angles to the
center line of the street.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association,
who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein,
either for himself or others.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
blocks, or sites, with or without streets or highways, and includes
resubdivision.
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision, including,
but not limited to, subdivisions of five (5) or more lots, or any
size subdivision requiring any new street or road or extension of
existing street, road, or municipal facilities, and not in conflict
with any provision or portion of the Master Plan, Official Map or
Zoning Ordinance,[1] if such exists, or these regulations.
Any subdivision containing not more than four (4) lots fronting
on an existing street, not involving any new street or road or extension
of existing street, road or municipal facilities and in conformance
with the current Zoning Ordinance and official Town Map.
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.
