For the purpose of these regulations, certain
words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a principal
trafficway for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
A comprehensive plan for development of the Village, prepared
by the Planning Board pursuant to § 179 of the Village Law,[1] 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.
Engineering and/or planning consultant to the Village and/or
Planning Board.
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular
traffic outlet.
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State
of New York.
An engineer or consultant designated by the Planning Board
or Village Board to render service to the Planning Board.
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.
"Plat approval" is final when signed by officers of the Planning
Board as provided in § 7G.
In planning, the slope of a road or hill, as measured in
degrees.
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows
of traffic.
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting
properties.
A map which may be established by the Board of Trustees of
the Village pursuant to § 179 of the Village Law,[2] 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.
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.
The Village Planning Board.
A drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout
of a subdivision plan submitted to the Planning Board for consideration.
Approval of a layout by the Board, conditional upon any changes
specified and a completion of the procedures provided in these regulations
as described in § 6 above.
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.
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
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.
Streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other ways between right-of-way
lines.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
The right-of-way width which is the distance between property
lines, measured at right angles to the center line of the street.
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.
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.
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 having the four (4) following items:
Containing fewer than four (4) lots fronting
on an existing street.
Not involving any new street or the extension
of municipal facilities.
Not adversely affecting the development of the
remainder of the parcel or adjoining property.
Not in conflict with any provision or portion
of the Development Plan, Zoning Ordinance,[3] Official Map or Master Plan, if such exist, or these regulations.
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.
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.
