As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
ALLEY
A strip of land over which there is a right-of-way, municipally or
privately owned, on which no building fronts, serving as a secondary means
of access to two or more properties.
BOARD
The words "Planning Board" or the words "Village Planning Board"
shall mean the Village of Pulaski Planning Board.
BOND
A performance bond duly issued by a bonding or surety company approved
by the Village Board with security acceptability to the Village Board or a
performance bond duly issued by the developer-obligor accompanied by security
in the form of cash, certified check or U.S. Government bearer bonds deposited
with the Village Board in the full amount of the obligation. The cash may
be withdrawn after the work has been performed as certified by the Village
Engineer with a 10% holdout until acceptance.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The Comprehensive Plan, or a part thereof, which may consist of several
maps, data, etc., adopted by the Planning Board indicating the general locations
recommended for major motorways, parks, and other public open spaces, public
building sites, routes for public utilities.
CROSSWALK
A right-of-way, municipally or privately owned, which cuts across
a block to furnish access for pedestrians to adjacent streets or properties.
EASEMENT
A right granted to use certain land for a special purpose not inconsistent
with the general property rights of the owner.
ENGINEER
Unless otherwise hereinafter indicated means the duly designated
engineer of the Village of Pulaski or if there be no such official, a licensed
professional engineer employed by the Village Board.
IMPROVEMENT
Those physical changes to the land necessary to produce usable and
desirable lots from raw acreage including grading, pavement, curb, gutter,
storm sewers and drains and betterments to existing watercourses, sidewalks,
street signs, crosswalks, shade trees, sodding or seeding, street name signs,
and monuments.
LOT
A parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or building development,
whether immediate or future.
LOT DEPTH
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lines of
a lot.
LOT WIDTH
The width of a lot at the building line.
OFFICIAL MAP
A map established by the Village Board under § 7-724 of
the Village Law, showing the streets, highways, and parks theretofore laid
out, adopted and established by law and all changes or additions thereto made
under the provisions of such section.
OWNER
The owner of the land proposed to be subdivided, or his agent.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A plan prepared by a licensed professional engineer or surveyor or
a qualified site planner, showing existing features of the land and proposed
street, utility and lot layout within and adjacent to a subdivision.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land between property lines opened for use as a street,
alley or crosswalk.
SETBACK or BUILDING LINE
A line indicating the minimum horizontal distance permitted between
the outside line of the main building or any enclosed projection thereof and
the lot line or street right-of-way line.
SIGHT DISTANCE
The distance an object 18 inches off the pavement (a tail light)
is visible from an eye level 4 1/2 feet above the pavement (average height
driver's eyes).
STREETS
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 functional classification is used in these
regulations:
(1)
ARTERIAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic, usually with complete or partial control over access from abutting property.
(2)
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets at major system of arterial streets and highways.
(3)
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
(4)
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.
(5)
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.
(6)
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.
SUBDIVIDER
A person who is the registered owner, or authorized agent of the
registered owner, of land proposed for subdivision.
SUBDIVISION
The division of a single lot, tract or parcel of land, or a part
thereof, into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, including changes
in street lines or lot lines, for the purpose, whether immediate or future,
of transfer of ownership or of building development; provided, however, that
division of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than five
acres, not involving any new street or easement of access, shall not be included
within the meaning of "subdivision."