[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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 330, Zoning.
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:
(1) 
Conformance with the various parts of the Master Plan, Zoning Ordinance[1] and Official Map, if any.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 330, Zoning.
(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]