As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
APPLICANT
A property owner or agent of a property owner who has filed
an application for subdivision of land.
CLUSTER ACCESS STREET
A street serving no more than six dwelling units or serving
an off-street parking lot.
COLLECTOR STREET
A street within one or more subdivisions designed to serve
as an artery linking them to each other and to existing highways,
collector streets, or other traffic generators.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A document adopted and, from time to time, amended by the
Town Board pursuant to § 272-a of New York State Town Law.
It reflects the community's vision and serves as a reasonable long-range
and comprehensive development policy statement that guides the day-to-day
administrative policies of the Town government and related agencies
with respect to planning and zoning.
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF A FINAL PLAT
Approval of a final plat subject, at the Planning Board's
discretion, to conditions set forth by the Planning Board in a resolution
conditionally approving such plat. Such conditional approval does
not qualify a final plat for recording prior to the signing of the
plat by a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board.
CUL-DE-SAC STREET
A local or cluster access street terminating in a turnaround
and having only one point of access.
DESIGN PROFESSIONAL
An architect, landscape architect, professional engineer,
or land surveyor, in each case licensed by the State of New York to
practice such profession.
EASEMENT
A written authorization by the property owner, acknowledged
and executed in such a form as to allow it to be recorded in the office
of the County Clerk. Said easement shall permit the use by another
and for a specified purpose of a designated portion of the land of
the property owner.
FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision
and containing all information and detail required by law and by this
chapter to be presented to the Planning Board for approval.
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
The signing of a final plat by a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board after a resolution granting final approval of the plat (or after conditions specified in a resolution granting conditional approval of the plat are completed). Upon receiving such approval, the plat may be filed in the office of the County Clerk in accordance with §
210-8B(9) of this chapter.
LANDSCAPING
The natural and cultivated elements of a site arranged to
produce an artful or otherwise desirable effect, including turf, meadow,
rocks, watercourses or water bodies, trees, shrubs, flowers, walls,
berms, swales, lanes, paths, and other similar natural and man-made
elements or forms.
LOCAL ACCESS STREET
A street designed so as not to encourage through traffic
and serving only a limited number of dwelling units within the subdivision,
which dwelling unit limit shall be specified on the approved subdivision
plat.
LOT
The unit or units into which land is divided, regardless
of intended use or occupancy. However, natural or man-made barriers
such as streets, highways, streams, etc., shall not, in and of themselves,
effect any division of land for this purpose.
LOT LINE CHANGE
The revision of a lot line of a lot, which revision is intended
to correct minor boundary problems and does not create a new lot for
development purposes and which revision will result in land area to
become part of an existing adjacent lot or parcel; provided, further,
that such lot line change:
A.
Does not create a parcel at variance with the
bulk requirements of the zone in which such parcel is located; and
B.
Is in accordance with good planning practices
in the opinion of the Planning Board.
MAIN HIGHWAY
A road, generally under jurisdiction of the federal government
or the state or county, providing for through traffic between centers
of development such as commercial centers, industrial areas, and concentrated
residential communities both within and outside of the Town.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision of land that results when more than three
new residential lots (excluding the parent lot from which they are
subdivided) are created from a parent lot within the last five years
from the time of any prior subdivision which created such parent lot.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET
A street located on a separate right-of-way parallel to and
in the vicinity of a highway designed to provide access abutting properties
without interrupting highway traffic except at recognized intersections
and access points.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision of land that results in three or fewer new
residential lots (excluding the parent lot from which they are subdivided)
within five years from the time of any subdivision which created such
parent lot.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings clearly marked "preliminary plat" showing the features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in §
210-6 of this chapter.
PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL
Approval by the Planning Board of the layout of a proposed
subdivision as set forth in a preliminary plat, but subject to approval
of the plat in final form in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter.
SITE
The total land of any owner whether part or all of such owner's
land is submitted for plat approval.
SKETCH PLAN
A drawing or drawings clearly marked "sketch plan" showing
the general layout of natural features and proposed improvements,
including house lots, lot lines, and driveways.
SOLAR ACCESS
Space open to the sun and clear of overhangs or shade including
the orientation of streets and lots to the sun so as to permit the
use of active and/or passive solar energy systems on individual properties.
[Added 8-8-2017 by L.L.
No. 7-2017]
SOLAR EASEMENT
An easement recorded pursuant to New York Real Property Law,
§ 235-b, the purpose of which is to secure the right to
receive sunlight across real property of another for continued access
to sunlight necessary to operate a solar collector.
[Added 8-8-2017 by L.L.
No. 7-2017]
STUB STREET
A street designed to provide a connection to possible future
development outside the subdivision so that continuity of traffic
circulation can be maintained.
SUBDIVISION
The division of real property into lots, plots, blocks or
sites with or without streets for the purpose of offering them for
transfer, sale, gift or for lease of 25 years or more or to provide
one or more additional building sites. However, natural or man-made
barriers such as streets, highways, streams, etc, shall not, in and
of themselves, effect any division of land for this purpose.
TOWN
The Town of Blooming Grove, New York.
WALKWAY
A street, right-of-way, easement, sidewalk, or other land
generally reserved for pedestrians, bicycles, equestrians and other
nonmotorized circulation.