A.
Under the authority vested in the Planning Board of the Town of Sunderland
by MGL c. 41, § 81Q, said Board hereby adopts these regulations
governing the subdivision of land, in order to guide its orderly development
consistent with the purposes of the Subdivision Control Law, MGL c.
41, §§ 81K through 81GG.
B.
The invalidity of any section, paragraph, clause or provision of
these rules and regulations shall not invalidate any other section,
paragraph, clause or provision therein.
A.
No person shall make a subdivision of any land within the Town or
proceed with the improvement or sale of lots in a subdivision, or
the construction of ways or the installation of municipal services
therein, unless and until a definitive plan of such subdivision has
been submitted to and approved by the Planning Board, as hereinafter
provided.
As used in these regulations, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
The Planning Board of the Town of Sunderland.
A street which carries traffic equivalent to that generated
by fifty (50) dwelling units or more, or which serves commercial or
industrial abutting land.
A street that carries traffic equivalent to that generated
by ten (10) or fewer dwelling units, has no abutting commercial or
industrial property and is not capable of extension.
A street that carries traffic equivalent to that generated
by fewer than fifty (50) dwelling units, has no abutting commercial
or industrial property and is not a lane.
The division of a tract of land into two (2) or more lots,
or, when appropriate to the context, the process of the "subdivision"
of the land or territory subdivided. However, the division of a tract
of land shall not be deemed to constitute a "subdivision" within the
meaning of the Subdivision Control Law if, at the time when it is
made, every lot within the tract so divided has frontage on a public
way or a way that the Clerk of the Town of Sunderland certifies is
maintained and used as a public way or a way shown on a plan theretofore
approved in accordance with the Subdivision Control Law, or a way
in existence on February 10, 1959, and every lot within the tract
has, in the opinion of the Planning Board, sufficient width, suitable
grades and adequate construction to provide for the needs of vehicular
traffic in relation to the proposed use of the land abutting thereon
or served thereby and the installation of municipal services to serve
such land and the buildings erected or to be erected thereon. Such
frontage shall be of at least such distance as is then required by
the Sunderland Zoning Bylaw for erection of a building on such lot.
Conveyances or other instruments adding to, taking away from or changing
the size and shape of lots in such a manner as not to leave any lot
so affected without the frontage above set forth, or the division
of a tract of land on which two (2) or more buildings were standing
on February 10, 1959, into separate lots, on each of which one (1)
of such buildings remains standing, shall not constitute a "subdivision."
