The Planning Board of the Town of Monroe declares
that these regulations for the subdivision of land for various purposes
have been promulgated to provide for the orderly growth and coordinated
development of the Town of Monroe and to assure the comfort, convenience,
safety, health and welfare of its people, and further that the approval
of such subdivisions shall be based on the following considerations:
B.
Recognition of a desirable relationship to the general
land form, its topographic and geologic character, to natural drainage
and surface water runoff and to the groundwater table.
C.
Recognition of desirable standards of subdivision
design, including adequate provision for pedestrian and vehicular
traffic, for surface water runoff and for suitable building sites
for the land use contemplated.
D.
Provision for such facilities as are desirable adjuncts
to the contemplated use, such as parks, recreation areas, school sites,
firehouses and off-street parking.
E.
Preservation of such natural assets, such as ponds,
streams, shrubs and trees.
F.
Provision of adequate utility services.
G.
Provision for a procedure to inspect all public improvements
adjunct to the contemplated use which affect the health, welfare and
safety of the residents of the Town of Monroe in order to ensure that
said public improvements will be constructed in a timely fashion,
with due sensitivity to the environment, in a manner consistent with
the plans approved by the Planning Board, and without undue burden
on the residents of the Town of Monroe.
[Added 12-4-2000 by L.L. No. 5-2000]
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
A.
Through the authority granted by § 276 of
the Town Law and by resolutions adopted by the Town Board on September
5, 1947, November 7, 1947, December 6, 1957, and July 3, 1959, the
Planning Board of the Town of Monroe is authorized and empowered to
approve preliminary and final plats showing lots, blocks or sites,
with or without streets or highways, to approve the development of
plats already filed in the office of the County Clerk prior to the
appointment of the Planning Board, if such plats are entirely or partially
undeveloped as that term is defined in § 276 of the Town
Law.
B.
By resolution adopted by the Town Board on October 9, 1968, and pursuant to the authority granted by § 278 of the Town Law, for the purpose of enabling and encouraging flexibility of design and development of land in such a manner as to promote the most appropriate use of land, to facilitate the adequate and economical provision of streets and utilities and to preserve the natural and scenic qualities of open land, the Planning Board is authorized and empowered, simultaneously with the approval of plats, to modify applicable provisions of Chapter 57, Zoning, subject to the conditions set forth in § 278 of the Town Law for all lands outside the limits of any incorporated village within the Town which are zoned for residential purposes.
C.
To the extent not inconsistent herewith, the provisions
of Article 16 of the Town Law of the State of New York are incorporated
herein by reference.
