For the purpose of this chapter, certain words
and terms used herein are defined as follows:
See "subdivider."
A subdivision plat or plats, approved pursuant to § 278
of the Town Law of the State of New York, in which the applicable
zoning district is modified to provide an alternative permitted method
for the layout, configuration and design of lots, buildings and structures,
roads, utility lines and other infrastructure, parks, and landscaping
in order to enable and encourage flexibility of design and development
that preserves the unique features and the natural, cultural, agricultural
and/or scenic qualities of the land while maintaining the density
limitations imposed by said minimum lot area in the applicable zoning
district.
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
A lot which has a pair of opposite lot lines abutting two
streets and which is not a corner lot.
Any building or structure, or part thereof, used and occupied
for human habitation, or intended to be so used, and includes any
appurtenances belonging thereto.
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; a parcel of land considered as a
unit, devoted to a certain use and occupied or capable of being occupied
by a building or group of buildings that are united by common interest
or use, and the customary accessory uses and open spaces belonging
to the same.
Any subdivision of land not classified as a minor subdivision,
including but not limited to subdivisions of three or more lots. If
a second application for a minor subdivision from a parcel as defined
on July 23, 2008, or created subsequent thereto, takes place in a
five-year period, the proposed subdivision will be considered a major
subdivision of land.
Any subdivision creating not more than two lots fronting
on an existing street, not involving any new street or road or the
extension of municipal facilities and not adversely affecting the
development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property.
The Town Planning Board may, at its discretion, refer the proposal
to the Ontario County Planning Board for advisory review.
The map 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 submitted to the Planning
Board shall be considered complete as provided in § 276,
Subdivision 5(c), of the Town Law.
A transfer of land from one parcel to another parcel without
creating any new parcels or a consolidation of two parcels into one.
A lot as identified by the Tax Map of the Town of West Bloomfield
dated July 23, 2008.
Any security in a form allowed by Subdivision 9 of § 277
of the New York State Town Law guaranteeing that certain or all improvements
will be made in accordance with the approved plans.
The Town of West Bloomfield Planning Board as established
pursuant to the provisions of Article 16 of the Town Law.
A meeting held with the Code Enforcement Officer and a member
of the Planning Board with an applicant prior to submitting an application.
The purpose of the meeting is to review all the application requirements,
regulations, timeline, and any other information that will assist
the applicant in preparing a complete application for submission.
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.
An undedicated access that is used as an ingress or egress
to up to four properties with reciprocal easements and a common maintenance
agreement.
An undedicated thoroughfare used as an ingress or egress
to five or more properties with reciprocal easements and a common
maintenance agreement and built to Town road construction standards.
Revision of all or part of an existing filed plat, including
consolidation of lots.
Any plan or drawing prepared in accordance with § 121-29 of this chapter.
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.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley
or other way which is an existing or proposed state, county or Town
roadway or way shown upon a plat heretofore 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 Ontario 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 or right-of-way lines.
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, herself, or
others.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
plots, sites or other division of land for the purpose, whether immediate
or future, of transfer of ownership or building development and shall
include resubdivision; provided, however, that the public acquisition
by purchase of strips of land for the widening or opening of streets
shall not be included within this definition nor subject to 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 Ontario County Clerk.
The materials, written and/or graphic, prepared pursuant
to New York State Town Law § 272-a, including but not limited
to maps, charts, studies, resolutions, reports and other descriptive
material, that identify the goals, objectives, principles, guidelines,
policies, standards, devices and instruments for the immediate and
long-range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the
Town of West Bloomfield.
The duly designated engineer of the Town of West Bloomfield.
The officially adopted Zoning Ordinance of the Town of West
Bloomfield, together with any and all amendments thereto.[1]
