For the purpose of these regulations, certain
words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a principal
trafficway for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OR VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A comprehensive plan for development of the Village, prepared
by the Planning Board pursuant to § 179 of the Village Law, which indicates the general locations recommended for
various public works, places and structures and for the general physical
development of the Village, and includes any part of such plan separately
adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
CONSULTANT
Engineering and/or planning consultant to the Village and/or
Planning Board.
DEAD-END STREET
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular
traffic outlet.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
ENGINEER, VILLAGE
An engineer or consultant designated by the Planning Board
or Village Board to render service to the Planning Board.
FEE: FEE SIMPLE, FEE ABSOLUTE
Absolute ownership of real property. A person has this type
of estate where the person is entitled to the entire property with
unconditional power of disposition during the person's life and descending
to the person's distributees and legal representatives upon the person's
death estate.
GRADE
In planning, the slope of a road or hill, as measured in
degrees.
MAJOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows
of traffic.
MINOR STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting
properties.
OFFICIAL MAP
A map which may be established by the Board of Trustees of
the Village pursuant to § 179 of the Village Law, showing the streets, highways and parks and drainage systems
theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law, and any amendments
thereto adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village or additions
thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision plats by the Planning
Board and the subsequent filing of such approved plats.
PERFORMANCE BOND
A security bond or certified check guaranteeing the subdivider
will install all required or planned improvements. Such bond shall
be sufficient to cover the full cost of all completed improvements
to the subdivision as estimated by the Board or agency designated
by the Board.
PLAT
A drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout
of a subdivision plan submitted to the Planning Board for consideration.
PRELIMINARY LAYOUT OR LAYOUT
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed
manner of layout of the subdivision, to be submitted to the Planning
Board for preliminary approval of the subdivision.
SCALE
The unit of measure on a map, plat or plan, showing the ratio
of measured distance on the document to the actual dimension of the
subject
SKETCH PLAN
A sketch plan of the proposed subdivision to enable the subdivider
to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Board
as to the form of the preliminary layout and plat in terms of objectives
stated in these regulations. It contains those elements listed in
§ 5B above.
STREET
Streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other ways between right-of-way
lines.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The right-of-way width which is the distance between property
lines, measured at right angles to the center line of the street.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who or which shall lay out for the purpose of sale or development
any subdivision or part thereof as defined below, either for himself
or others.
SUBDIVISION OR RESUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
plots, sites or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate
or future, of transfer of ownership or creation of additional rights-of-way.
SUBDIVISIONS, MAJOR
All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions (as
defined below), including but not limited to subdivisions of four
or more lots, or any size subdivision requiring new street frontage
or extension of municipal facilities.
SUBDIVISIONS, MINOR
Subdivisions having the four (4) following items:
A.
Containing fewer than four (4) lots fronting
on an existing street.
B.
Not involving any new street or the extension
of municipal facilities.
C.
Not adversely affecting the development of the
remainder of the parcel or adjoining property.
D.
Not in conflict with any provision or portion
of the Development Plan, Zoning Ordinance, Official Map or Master Plan, if such exist, or these regulations.
SUBDIVISION PLAT OR PLAT
The final map or drawing on which the subdivider's plan of
subdivision is presented to the Planning Board for approval and which,
if approved, shall be submitted to the County Clerk for recording.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.