For the purpose of these regulations, which shall
be known and may be cited as the "Town of Ossining Land Subdivision
Regulations," certain means of reference and words used herein shall
be used and defined as follows:
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A comprehensive plan prepared by the Planning Board pursuant
to § 272-a of the Town Law which indicates the general locations
recommended for the 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 adopted and
any amendment to such plan or part thereof.
EASEMENT
The authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT
The final drawings on which the subdivider's plan of subdivision
is presented to the Planning Board for approval and which, if approved,
may be filed for record with the County Clerk.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Town Board under § 270
of the Town Law showing the streets, highways, drainage systems and
parks theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law and any
amendments thereto adopted by the Town Board or additions thereto
resulting from the approval of subdivision plats by the Planning Board
and the subsequent filing for record of such approved plats.
OFFICIAL SUBMITTAL DATE
The time of submission of the subdivision plat, considered to be the date of the meeting of the Planning Board following the submission of the application for plat approval to the Chairman of the Planning Board, complete and accompanied by the required fee and all data required by Article
V of these regulations, as long as such submission has occurred by the 10th of the month in which the subdivision plat is to be considered.
PRELIMINARY SUBDIVISION PLAT
The preliminary drawings indicating the proposed layout of
the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Board for its consideration.
RESUBDIVISION
A change of recorded subdivision plat if such change affects
any street layout shown on such plat or area reserved thereon for
public use or any change of a lot line, or any such change if it affects
any map or plan legally recorded prior to the granting of subdivision
review authority to the Planning Board.
SKETCH PLAN
A sketch of the proposed subdivision showing information specified in Article
V, §Â
176-22, 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 subdivision and objectives and requirements of these regulations.
STREET
Any road, highway, avenue, street, parkway, lane or other
way between right-of-way lines, commonly used by the public for street
purposes.
STREET, MAJOR
A street which serves or is designed to be used primarily
as a route for traffic between communities or large areas.
STREET, MINOR
A street intended to serve primarily as access to abutting
residential properties.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association,
who shall lay out for the purpose of sale or development any subdivision
or part thereof as defined herein, either for himself or others.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land, with or without streets,
into two or more lots or plots or other legal division of land for
immediate or future transfer of ownership.
SUBDIVISION MAJOR
Any subdivision containing more than four lots, or any subdivision
requiring any new public street extension or the extension of municipal
facilities.
SUBDIVISION MINOR
A subdivision containing not more than four lots which has
frontage on an existing public street and which does not require any
new municipal street, street extension or extension of municipal facilities.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.
TOWN
The Town of Ossining in the County of Westchester and State
of New York.
TOWN BOARD
The Town Board of the Town of Ossining.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly designated Engineer or engineering consultant of
the Town.