In making such determination regarding streets, highways, parks and required improvements, the Planning Board shall take into consideration the prospective character of the development, whether dense residence, open residence, business or industrial.
Before the approval by the Planning Board of a site plan or subdivision showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, the Planning Board shall require that the land shown on the plat be of such character that it can be used safely for building purposes without danger to health or peril from fire, flood, drainage or other menace to neighboring properties or the public health, safety and welfare. Further, it is declared to be the policy of the Town of Clarkson to consider land subdivisions and site plans as part of a plan for the orderly, efficient and economical development of the Town and in a manner that is reasonable and in the best interests of the community. The Planning Board will be guided in its consideration of an application for a site plan or subdivision and development of land by the following general requirements:
A. 
Streets and highways be of sufficient width and suitable grade and shall be suitably located to accommodate the prospective traffic, to afford adequate light and air, to facilitate fire protection, and to provide access of fire fighting equipment to buildings. Such streets and highways shall be coordinated so as to compose a convenient system conforming to the Official Map and properly related to the proposals shown in the Comprehensive Plan of the Town;
B. 
All streets or other public places shown on such plats be suitably graded and paved; street signs, sidewalks, streetlighting standards, curbs, gutters, street trees, water mains, fire alarm signal devices (including necessary ducts and cables or other connecting facilities), sanitary sewers and storm drains be installed all in accordance with standards, specifications and procedures acceptable to the appropriate Town departments, except as hereinafter provided, or alternatively that a performance bond or other security be furnished to the Town, as hereinafter provided.
C. 
Insofar as possible, all existing features of the landscape, such as large trees, rock outcrops, unusual glacial formations, water and flood courses, wetlands, historic sites and other such irreplaceable and environmentally sensitive areas and assets, should be preserved.
D. 
Compliance with Comprehensive Plan and other laws.
(1) 
Subdivisions and site plans shall be in conformance with the Town Comprehensive Plan and all other local ordinances. Subdivisions and site plans shall conform to the streets, parks and other public ways or spaces shown on the Official Map of the Town, if any. Streets shall be of such width, grade and location as to accommodate the prospective traffic, to afford adequate light and air, and to facilitate fire protection.
(2) 
The Planning Board shall consider the effect of any subdivision or site plan on agricultural operations within or adjacent to agriculture districts pursuant to Article 25AA of the Agriculture and Markets Law.
E. 
Land subject to flooding and land deemed by the Board to be uninhabitable shall not be platted for residential occupancy nor such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property or aggravate the flood hazard, but such land within the final plat shall be set aside for such uses as shall not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation or shall not produce unsatisfactory living conditions.
F. 
In case a tract is subdivided into larger parcels than ordinary building lots, such parcels shall be arranged so as to allow the opening of future streets and logical further resubdivision.
G. 
No privately owned reserved strips controlling access to land dedicated or to be dedicated to public use shall be permitted.
H. 
No excess topsoil or subsoil shall be removed from the site unless approved by the Planning Board in accordance with the provisions of § 140-8D and E of the Clarkson Code.
I. 
Standards for required improvements shall be appropriate for the public use and demand anticipated upon full development and shall be of sufficient size to accommodate development of proximate areas, if these are considered by the Board to be logically served through the subject property.
J. 
Applicants bear the responsibility of providing sound engineering design of all infrastructure, subject to the approval of the Town of Clarkson and the respective authorities having jurisdiction over existing infrastructure. The design shall be prepared by a professional engineer licensed to practice in the State of New York, who shall have had experience in infrastructure design. The design shall conform to the requirements set forth herein.