For the purpose of this chapter, certain words
and terms used herein are defined as follows:
CUL-DE-SAC
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being temporarily or permanently terminated by a vehicular
turnaround.
DRAINAGE RIGHT-OF-WAY
The lands required for the installation of storm water 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.
EASEMENT
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.
LOT
A piece, parcel, or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer
of ownership or for development.
OFFICIAL MAP
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.
OFFICIAL SUBMISSION DATE
The date when a subdivision plat shall be considered submitted to the Planning Board, as provided in § 276 of the Town Law, and is hereby defined to be the date of a meeting of the Planning Board at which all required surveys, plans, and data described in Article
III are submitted.
PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE
Any security which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement
that certain improvement be made before the Planning Board approves
a plat, including performance bonds, escrow agreements, and other
similar collateral or surety agreements.
PLANNING BOARD
The Town of Sullivan Planning Board as established pursuant
to the provisions of Article 16 of the Town Law.
PRIVATE STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley,
or other way serving as access to a lot or property but not accepted
by the Town Board for public maintenance.
ROADWAY
The wearing or hard surfaced traffic-bearing portion of a
street.
SKETCH PLAT
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.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley,
or other public way which is an existing state, county, or Town roadway,
or way shown upon a plat theretofore 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 Madison 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 areas, and other areas within the street lines. For the purpose
of this chapter, streets shall be classified as follows:
A.
Arterial streets are those which are used primarily
by a heavy volume of traffic.
B.
Collector streets are those which carry traffic
from major streets to the major system of arterial streets including
the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets
for circulation within such a development.
C.
Minor streets are those which are used primarily
for access to abutting properties.
D.
Marginal service streets are streets which are
parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways; and which
provide access to abutting properties and protection from through
traffic.
E.
Alleys are minor ways which are used primarily
for vehicular service to the back or the side of properties otherwise
abutting on a street.
STREET WIDTH
The distance between property lines or right-of-way lines.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association,
who shall lay out, for the purpose of sale of development, any subdivision
or part thereof as defined herein, either for himself or others.
SUBDIVISION
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 following shall
not be included within this definition nor subject to these regulations:
A.
The public acquisition by purchase of strips
of land for the widening or opening of streets.
B.
The division of a tract in single ownership, recorded at the Town Clerk's Office as of June 1, 1968, into not more than three lots fronting on existing improved streets, not involving any new street or road or the extension of municipal facilities, not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property, and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Comprehensive Plan, Official Map, or Chapter
275, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Sullivan, and where the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards contained within.
SUBDIVISION PLAT
The final map or drawing of all or a portion of the subdivision
which is presented to the Planning Board for approval and which, if
approved, will be submitted to the County Clerk of Madison County
for recording.
TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN, TOWN PLAN, or COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the Town prepared by the Planning Board,
pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law, which indicates the
general locations recommended for various public works and reservations,
and for the general physical development of the Town, and includes
any part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such
plan, or parts thereof.
ZONING ORDINANCE
The officially adopted Chapter
275, Zoning, together with any and all amendments thereto.