For the purpose of this chapter, certain words
used herein are defined as follows:
SKETCH PLANAn informal plan, not necessarily to exact scale, indicating salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of a proposed subdivision.
PRELIMINARY PLATA tentative subdivision plat, in lesser detail than the final plat, indicating the approximate proposed layout of a subdivision as a basis for study and consideration prior to preparation of the final plat.
FINAL PLATThe final map or drawing on which the exact subdivision plan is presented for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the County Clerk for recording. (For the purpose of the public hearing required in § 7-728 of the Village Law, the "final plat" shall be regarded as the plat on which the hearing shall be held.)
The Planning Board of the Village of Fayetteville.
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street,
highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive,
place or other similar designation. The following classification,
as designated in the discretion of the Planning Board, is used in
this chapter:
ARTERIAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic, usually with complete or partial control over access from abutting property.
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to a major system of arterial streets and highways.
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSMinor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
CUL-DE-SAC STREETSMinor streets with one end open for public vehicle and pedestrian access and the other end terminating in a vehicular turnaround. The length of a "cul-de-sac street" shall be measured along the center line from its intersection with the center line of the street from which it runs to the center of the cul-de-sac turnaround.
SERVICE DRIVESMinor private ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
A division of any part, parcel or area of land by the owner
or agent either by lots or by metes and bounds into lots or parcels
two or more in number for the purpose of conveyance, transfer, improvement,
building development or sale. The term "subdivision" includes resubdivision.
