As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic way for
a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The materials, written and/or graphic, including but not limited
to maps, charts, studies, resolutions, reports and other descriptive materials
that identify the goals, objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards,
devices and instruments for the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement,
growth and development of Livonia.
CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT
A development of residential lots, each containing less area than
the minimum lot area required for the zone within which such development occurs,
but maintaining the density limitation imposed by said minimum lot area through
the provision of open space as a part of the subdivision plan.
DEED OR TRACT RESTRICTIONS
Legal language recorded in an instrument in the chain of title for
a lot which describes specifically limitations or restrictions on the use
of property.
DRAINAGE RIGHT-OF-WAY
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers or drainage
ditches or field tile or required along a natural stream or watercourse for
preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein to safeguard
the public against flood damage and nuisance water conditions.
EASEMENT
The authorization by a property owner for use by another, for a specified
purpose, of any designated part of such property or, as in a conservation
easement, an agreement by the property owner to restrict the use of a designated
portion of such property to a particular use or to prohibit use of a designated
portion of such property for certain uses.
LETTER OF CREDIT
A security which may be accepted as a guarantee of a requirement
that certain improvements be made before the Joint Planning Board approves
a plat, including escrow agreements and other similar collateral and surety
agreements acceptable in form and amount to the Municipal Attorney and Municipal
Engineer and approved by the governing board.
LOT
A piece, parcel or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer of
ownership, lease or for development.
MAJOR STREET
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.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision, including
but not limited to subdivisions of five or more lots or any size subdivision
requiring any new street or extension of municipal facilities.
MINOR STREET
A street intended to serve primary access to abutting properties.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision which contains not more than four lots fronting on an existing street; does not include any new street or road; does not require the extension of municipal facilities; does not adversely affect adjacent properties; and is not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Comprehensive Plan, Official Map, Zoning Map, Chapter
150, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Livonia, or these regulations.
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the Town or Village of Livonia or
a position assigned with similar duties.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the governing board pursuant to § 270
of the Town Law or § 7-724 of the Village Law, showing streets,
highways and parks and drainage, both existing and proposed, and any amendments
thereto adopted by the governing board.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings, clearly marked "preliminary plat," showing the significant features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in Article
III, §
125-8. of this chapter, submitted to the Joint Planning Board for the purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Joint Planning Board of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
STREET
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other traffic ways, between
right-of-way lines.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The width of the right-of-way, measured at right angles to the center
line of the street.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who shall
lay out any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein, either personally
or on behalf of others.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any tract of land into two or more lots, plots, sites
or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of
transfer of ownership, lease or building development, and shall include resubdivision.
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision, containing
all information or detail required by law and by these regulations to be presented
to the Joint Planning Board for approval and which, if approved, may be duly
filed or recorded by the applicant in the office of the County Clerk.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
UNDEVELOPED PLATS
Those plats existing at the time of the enactment of this chapter
that have been filed in the office of the County Clerk, where 20% or more
of the lots within the plat are unimproved.