For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COMPREHENSIVE OR MASTER PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan, prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law, as amended, 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 or supplement to such plan or part therein.
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF A FINAL PLAT
Approval of a final plat subject to conditions set forth by the Planning Board in a resolution conditionally approving such plat. Such conditional approval does not qualify a final plat for recording prior to the signing of the plat by a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board.
CURB CUT
A cut through a curb and sidewalk, that enables a vehicle to drive to a driveway, garage, parking lot, loading dock, or drive-through.
[Added 4-9-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
CURB RAMP
A short ramp built into the curb of a sidewalk to ease pedestrian passage to the street, driveway, or parking lot, especially for people using wheelchairs, walkers, and pushing baby carriages or strollers. Pedestrian curb ramps shall provide an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant accessible pathway between sidewalks and streets at intersections, crosswalks, and driveway crossings.
[Added 4-9-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
DEAD-END STREET or CUL-DE-SAC
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
A statement, completed in its entirety by the subdivider, on a form provided by the Planning Board, which requires disclosure of the nature and extent of interest, if any, of any state official or municipal officer or employee in the application, petition or request accompanying the statement.
DROP CURB
See "curb ramp."
[Added 4-9-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
EASEMENT
A written authorization by the property owner, acknowledged and executed in such a form as to allow it to be recorded in the office of the County Clerk, which permits the use by another and for a specified purpose of a designated portion of the land of the property owner, which authorization shall be without limit as to time and duration.
ENGINEER or LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State of New York.
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
The signing of a final plat by a daily authorized officer of the Planning Board after a resolution granting final approval of the plat or after conditions specified in a resolution granting conditional approval of the plat are completed. Such final approval qualifies the plat for recording in the office of the Putnam County Clerk.
LOCAL STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
LOOP ROAD
A street serving all lots within a subdivision and connecting with one or more local streets outside of a proposed subdivision. Connection points to one or more local streets shall be separated by a minimum of 50 feet.
[Added 4-24-2003 by L.L. No. 8-2003]
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.
MAJOR THOROUGHFARE
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.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision containing not more than four lots fronting on an existing street; not involving any new street or road or the extension of municipal facilities; not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property; not involving more than one acre of disturbance; not requiring a Town of Southeast freshwater wetlands permit, except for an activity of minor significance as specified in § 78-4H; and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Comprehensive or Master Plan, Official Map, if such exists, or Chapter 138, Zoning, or this chapter. A proposed subdivision or resubdivision shall only be classified as a minor subdivision if the sketch plan incorporates all of the tract from which lots are proposed to be divided.
[Amended 3-9-2017 by L.L. No. 1-2017]
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Town Board pursuant to §§ 270 and 273 of the Town Law, as amended, showing streets, highways and parks and drainage, both existing and proposed.
OFFICIAL SUBMISSION DATE
The date when a preliminary subdivision plat or final subdivision plat accompanied by all other information required with the application for preliminary plat or final plat approval is received by the administrative assistant to the Planning Board or other official designated by the Planning Board to receive such submittals.
PERMANENT DEAD-END STREET
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet. (See "dead-end street" or "cul-de-sac.")
[Added 4-24-2003 by L.L. No. 8-2003]
PLANNING BOARD or BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town of Southeast.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings, clearly marked "preliminary plat," showing the features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in Article V, § 123-30, of this chapter.
PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL
Approval by the Planning Board of the layout of a proposed subdivision as set forth in a preliminary plat, but subject to approval of the plat in final form in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
RESUBDIVISION
Any change of existing property lines or of property lines shown on plat approved by the Planning Board and filed in the office of the County Clerk of Putnam County, New York.
SECONDARY THOROUGHFARE
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic way for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
SKETCH PLAN
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in Article V, § 123-29, of this chapter.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
STREET or THOROUGHFARE
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other trafficways between right-of-way lines.
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 for himself or others.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land, as it existed on the date of adoption of this chapter and irrespective of the period of time over which said division of land is made, into two or more lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, lease, gift, devise, conveyance of or transfer of title or division by other means for building development, and which shall include resubdivision as defined in § 276 of the Town Law, as amended, and which shall include condominiums as provided in Article 9-B of the Real Property Law.
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and by this chapter to be presented to the 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.
TOWN
The Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly designated Engineer of the Town.