The Board of Trustees may authorize and empower the Planning Board to
approve preliminary and final plats of subdivisions showing lots, blocks or
sites, with or without streets or highways, and to approve the development
of plats, entirely or partially undeveloped, which were filed in the office
of the Clerk of the county in which such plat is located prior to the appointment
of such Planning Board and to approve such plats.
These regulations are enacted for the following purposes and for such
other or further purposes as may be authorized by law:
A. To provide for the future growth and development of the
village.
B. To afford adequate facilities for housing, transportation,
distribution, comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare.
C. To show in proper cases a park or parks suitably located
for playground or other recreational purposes.
D. To require that the streets and highways shall be of
sufficient width and suitable grade and shall be suitably located to accommodate
the prospective traffic, to afford adequate light and air, to facilitate fire
protection and to provide access of fire-fighting equipment to buildings.
E. To assure that the subdivision streets and highways shall
be coordinated so as to compose a convenient system conforming to the Official
Map and properly related to the Comprehensive Plan and Chapter
192, Zoning.
F. To find that the land shown on such plats shall be of
such character that it can be used safely for building purposes without danger
to health or peril from flood, fire or other menace.
For the purpose of these regulations, which shall be known as and may
be cited as the "Village of Fort Plain Subdivision Regulations," certain words
used herein are defined as follows:
BOARD
The duly appointed Planning Board of the Village of Fort Plain.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A comprehensive plan prepared for and by the Board pursuant to Article
7 of the Village Law, which plan indicates the general locations recommended
for the various public works, places and structures and for the general physical
development of the Village of Fort Plain and includes any unit or part of
such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
FINAL PLAT
The final map or drawing on which the plan of subdivision is presented
to the Board for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the
County Clerk for filing.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Village of Fort Plain pursuant to Article
7 of the Village Law showing the streets, highways and parks theretofore laid
out, adopted and established by law and any amendments thereto adopted by
the Village of Fort Plain additions thereto resulting from the approval of
subdivision plats by the Board and the subsequent filing of such approved
plats. Streets not accepted by the Village of Fort Plain as public streets
may be shown thereon but shall be marked as private streets.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner
or layout of the subdivision and width of proposed streets to be submitted
to the Board for its consideration.
STREET
A public or private way for vehicular traffic.
B.
MAJOR STREETSThose streets which carry traffic from minor streets to the business industrial districts
C.
MINOR STREETSThose streets which are used primarily for access to abutting residential properties. A "cul-de-sac" is a minor street with only one outlet and having a turning loop or wye at the closed end.
D.
FRONTAGE ROADSThose streets which are generally parallel with and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
E.
ALLEYSMinor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, blocks,
sites or other division of land, with or without streets or highways, for
the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building
development and shall include resubdivision in whole or in part of any plat,
filed or unfiled, which is entirely or partially undeveloped.
Whenever any subdivision of land as hereinbefore defined as proposed
to be made, the subdividing owner thereof or his agent shall apply, in writing,
to the Board for approval of such subdivision. There shall first be filed
with the Board a preliminary plan or layout of the entire property for conditional
approval and subsequently thereto a final plat as hereinafter specified.
Prior to the filing of an application for approval of a preliminary
plat, the subdivider, his agent or engineer may appear and submit general
site information and data regarding existing conditions, a location map and
a sketch plan with a request for informal consideration by the Board and for
an expression of its views. No formal application is thereby required. The
purpose of such appearance and submission of information and data is primarily
to afford the subdivider an opportunity to consult informally and at an early
stage with the Board with the view toward conserving the time and expense
of the subdivider and creating mutual opportunities of the parties for the
achievement of a desirable subdivision in the public interest.
A filing fee to be set forth by resolution of the Board of Trustees, with a minimum fee per plat, shall be paid to the Village Clerk
for credit to the account of the Planning Board in the general fund when the
final plat is filed with the Board for final approval.