For the purposes of this chapter, 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 appointed town engineer or, if there be no such official,
the planning consultant or engineer employed by or assigned to the Planning
Board, or any other engineer retained by the Town Board or the Planning Board
in connection with a particular project.
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 general physical development of the Town and includes any unit or part
of such plan separately prepared and any amendment to such plan or part therein.
The map established by the Town Board pursuant to § 270
of the Town Law, showing streets, highways and parks and drainage, both existing
and proposed.
The Planning Board of the Town.
A drawing or drawings, clearly marked "Preliminary Plat," showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in § 127-7 of this chapter, submitted to the Planning Board for purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision, containing
all information or detail required by law and by this chapter 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, and which, if
approved, may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant in the Office of
the County Clerk.
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in § 127-5 of this chapter to enable the subdivider to reach a general agreement with the Planning Board as to the form of the layout and objections of this chapter with minimum time and expense.
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other traffic ways between
right-of-way lines.
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic way 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 the 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, plots or
sites or other divisions of land for immediate or future sale or for building
development in such a way as to create one or more new streets or highways
or extensions of existing streets or highways.
A person licensed to survey land by the State of New York.
