If a parcel of land is to be subdivided before
offering the land for sale, the owner shall submit a plat of the parcel
to the Planning Board for its approval and then file the approved
plat with the office of the County Clerk. The layout of new streets
must also be approved by the Planning Board in accordance with the
construction standards.[1] Construction may not begin until all necessary approvals
have been obtained.
Whenever access to a subdivision is required
across land in another municipality, the Planning Board shall refer
the application to the Town Attorney to determine whether access is
legally established and to the Town Engineer to determine if the access
road is adequately improved or that a performance bond has been duly
executed and is sufficient in amount to ensure the construction of
the access road. In general, lot lines should be laid out so as not
to cross municipal boundary lines.
For a resubdivision, the same procedure, rules
and regulations shall apply as for a subdivision.
Subdivisions shall conform to the streets or
parks shown on the Official Map of the town as adopted by the Town
Board. Subdivisions shall be properly related to the Master Plan as
adopted by the Planning Board.
Monuments shall be of a type which conform to
the town construction standards and specifications and shall be required
wherever deemed necessary by the Town Engineer to enable all lines
to be reproduced upon the ground. In general, monuments shall be located
on street right-of-way lines at street intersections, lot corners,
angle points, points of curve and block corners; they shall be spaced
so as to be within sight of each other.
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Where the Planning Board finds that, because of special
circumstances of a particular plat, extraordinary hardships may result
from strict compliance with these regulations, it may modify these
regulations so that substantial justice may be done and the public
interest secured, provided that any such modification shall not have
the effect of nullifying the intent and purpose of these regulations,
the Master Plan, the 1990 Zoning Law[1] or the Official Map of the town.
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In granting any modification, the Planning Board shall
state for the record the reasons why such modification is granted
and attach such conditions as are, in its judgment, necessary to substantially
secure the objectives of the standards or requirements so modified.
