For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms used herein
are defined as follows:
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the other end
being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers or drainage
ditches 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.
The lands created through authorization by a property owner for the
use by another and for a specified purpose of any designated part of his property.
A piece, parcel or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer of
ownership or for development.
The map, if any, established by the Town Board under § 270
of the Town Law showing the streets, highways and parks heretofore laid out,
adopted and established by law, and any amendments thereto adopted by the
Town Board or additions thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision
plats by the Planning Board and the subsequent filing of such approved plats.
The date when a subdivision plat shall be considered submitted to
the Planning Board, as provided in § 276 of the Town Law, and is
hereby defined to be the date of a meeting of the Planning Board at which
all required surveys, plans and data described in Article VI are submitted.
Any security which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement that
certain improvements be made before the Planning Board approves a plat, including
performance bonds, escrow agreements and other similar collateral or surety
agreements.
The Town of Brant Planning Board as established pursuant to the provisions
of Article 16 of the Town Law.
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner
or layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Board for its
consideration and meeting the requirements of Article VI.
Revision of all or part of an existing filed plat, including consolidation
of lots.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley or other
way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway or way shown upon
a plat theretofore approved pursuant to law or approved by official action
or a street or way on a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of the
County Clerk of Erie County prior to the appointment of a Planning Board and
the grant to such Board of the power to review plats, and includes the land
between the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise
pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, parking area and other areas within
the street lines. For the purpose of these regulations, "streets" shall be
classified as follows:
ARTERIAL STREETS -- Those which are used primarily by a heavy volume
of traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETS -- Those which carry traffic from minor streets to
the major system of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets
of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
MINOR STREETS or LOCAL RESIDENTIAL STREETS -- Those which are used primarily
for access to the abutting properties.
MARGINAL SERVICE STREETS -- Streets which are parallel to and adjacent
to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties
and protection from through traffic.
ALLEYS -- Minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service
to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
The distance between property lines or right-of-way lines.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who shall
lay out, for the purpose of sale or development, 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, plats,
sites or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future,
of transfer of ownership or building development, and shall include resubdivision;
provided, however, that the following shall not be included within this definition
nor subject to these regulations:
The public acquisition by purchase of strips of land for the widening
or opening of streets.
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 and, in the opinion of the Planning Board, not adversely affecting
the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property and not
in conflict with any provision or portion of the Comprehensive Plan, Official
Map or Zoning Ordinance,[1] if such exists, or these regulations.
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 Planning Board for approval and which, if approved, may be duly filed
or recorded by the applicant in the office of the Erie County Clerk.
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending the
physical development of the town prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to
§ 272-a of the Town Law which indicates the general locations recommended
for various public works and reservations and for the general physical development
of the town, and includes any part of such plan separately adopted and any
amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
The duly designated engineer of the Town of Brant.
The officially adopted Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Brant, together
with any and all amendments thereto.[2]
