[Amended 6-26-1993 by L.L. No. 21-1993]
By authority of the Town Board of the Town of
Southampton, pursuant to the provisions of § 276 of Article
16 of the Town Law, the Town of Southampton Planning Board is hereby
authorized and empowered to approve plats showing lots, blocks or
sites, with or without streets or highways, and to approve preliminary
plats and to pass and approve the development of plats already filed,
within the part of the Town which is outside the limits of any incorporated
village, and further, pursuant to the Town Board resolution dated
May 2, 1972, the Town of Southampton Planning Board is also authorized
and empowered, simultaneously with the approval of a plat or plats,
to modify applicable provisions of the Zoning Law,[1] pursuant to the provisions of § 278 of said
Town Law.
A.
These regulations are established to require that
every person or corporation, except church cemetery organizations,
who, as owner or agent, subdivides real property into lots, plots,
blocks or sites with or without streets, regardless of how they are
conveyed or for what kind of land use they are intended, files in
the office of the County Clerk a map thereof.
[Amended 6-26-1993 by L.L. No. 21-1993]
B.
The Planning Board declares that these regulations
for the subdivision of land for various purposes are promulgated to
provide for the orderly growth and coordinated development of the
Town 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:
(2)
Recognition of a desirable relationship to the general
land form, its topographic and geologic character, to natural drainage,
to the recharge of the groundwater reservoir and to floodplain and
ecological concerns.
(3)
Recognition of desirable standards of subdivision
design for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, surface water runoff,
utility services and building sites for the land use contemplated.
(4)
Encouragement of flexible subdivision design to promote
the planning objectives of the Master Plan, to realize development
and maintenance economies and to provide for a variety of housing
types.
(5)
Provision for such facilities as are desirable adjuncts
to the contemplated use, such as parks, recreation areas, school sites,
firehouses, fire wells and off-street parking.
(6)
Preservation and protection of such natural resources
and assets as lakes, ponds, streams, tidal waters, wetlands, beaches,
dunelands, steep slopes, bluffs, prime agricultural soils, flora,
fauna, general scenic beauty and historic features of the Town.
[Amended 5-12-1992 by L.L. No. 22-1992]
