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Town of Perinton, NY
Monroe County
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In these regulations, when not inconsistent with the context:
A. 
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
B. 
Words in the present tense also imply the future tense.
C. 
The singular includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular.
D. 
The male gender includes the female gender.
E. 
The word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, trust, company, partnership or corporation as well as an individual.
F. 
The verb "shall" is mandatory.
G. 
The verb "may" is permissive.
H. 
The verb "used" includes the meaning designed, intended or arranged to be used.
For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
CONCEPT LAYOUT
A drawing prepared in accordance with § 182-24 of this chapter showing the general manner in which a tract of land is proposed to be subdivided.
COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A comprehensive plan for the development of Monroe County prepared by the Monroe County Planning Council and as may be adopted in part or entirety by the Monroe County Legislature pursuant to § 704 of the County Charter.
COUNTY OFFICIAL MAP
A map established by the Monroe County Legislature, pursuant to §§ 239-g, 239-h and 239-i of the General Municipal Law.
DESIGN CRITERIA AND CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS
The Design Criteria and Construction Specifications of the Town of Perinton as adopted or used as a guide for review and approval of subdivision design and construction. The term also applies to requirements placed on development by other codes, standards, regulatory review or permits specific to a project.
DRY SEWER
The connected sanitary sewer system consisting of the collector (the collector and lateral pipeline lying within the street to the edge of the right-of-way of the subdivision); the lateral (the lateral pipe leading from the right-of-way to within five feet outside the building line); and the house line (the pipeline running from five feet outside the building line, through the basement wall, to the interior plumbing system of the house structure).
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another person, municipality or public utility district or for any public purpose of any designated part of his property for a specified purpose.
FINANCIAL GUARANTY
A letter of credit, performance bond, approved savings account or other instrument accessible by the Town to fund completion of uncompleted improvements, warranties and inspections which may be necessary to complete a subdivision.
FLOOD LIMITS
The land-water boundary of a natural watercourse flowing at its one-hundred-year frequency as defined by a responsible agency such as the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture or the Monroe County Planning Council.
PLANNING BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town of Perinton.
PRELIMINARY LAYOUT
A drawing prepared in accordance with § 182-25 of this chapter showing the approximate manner in which a tract of land is proposed to be subdivided and including preliminary design data for related improvements. This is identical to the "preliminary plat" referred to in § 276 of the Town Law.
RESUBDIVISION
A change in a map of an approved or filed subdivision plat involving only lot line alterations and not resulting in any increase in the number of lots, if such change does not affect any street layout shown on such map or area reserved thereon for public use or restricted by conservation easement and complies with applicable zoning.
SKETCH LAYOUT
See "concept layout."
STREET
A right-of-way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, alley or however otherwise designated, but not including a private driveway serving a single property.
A. 
ALLEYSMinor rights-of-way which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of lots otherwise abutting on a street.
B. 
ARTERIAL STREETSStreets which are used or designed primarily for through or heavy traffic. These are normally state or county roadways.
C. 
COLLECTOR STREETSStreets which carry traffic from minor streets to arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
D. 
MINOR STREETSStreets which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
E. 
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSMinor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
F. 
DEAD-END STREET or CUL-DE-SACA street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular outlet.
G. 
RURAL ROADA street servicing less populated areas in zoning classifications Residential Transition (RT) and Residential Sensitive (RS).
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, corporation, partnership or other organization which lays out any subdivision, as defined herein.
SUBDIVISION
The division of a parcel of land into two or more lots or parcels for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, lease, transfer of ownership or building development, or, if a new street or extension of an existing street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. The term includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided. Subdivisions exempt from these regulations:
A. 
The public acquisition of strips of land for the widening or opening of public streets.
B. 
The public acquisition of land to be added to the Town of Perinton open space inventory, parks inventory or for use as a stormwater management area.
C. 
Burial plots.
SUBDIVISION PLAT
Drawings prepared in accordance with § 182-26 of this chapter showing definitively a proposed subdivision of a tract of land and plans for related improvements.
TIME LIMITS
Refers to the time limits specified in § 276 of Town Law of the State of New York, as amended. In the event that a time limit in this chapter shall be at variance with the current statutory authority, such statutory time period shall govern.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the Town of Perinton.
TOWN MASTER PLAN
A comprehensive plan for the development of the Town prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law.
TOWN OFFICIAL MAP
A map established by the Town Board of the Town of Perinton, pursuant to §§ 270 and 273 of the Town Law, or additions thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision plats by the Planning Board and the filing of such plats pursuant to § 277 of the Town Law.
UNDEVELOPED PLATS
Those plats where 20% or more of the lots within the plat are unimproved.
ZONING
The Zoning Chapter of the Town of Perinton as the same may be amended from time to time.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 208, Zoning.