As used in these regulations, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which carries traffic equivalent to that generated
by fifty (50) dwelling units or more, or which serves commercial or
industrial abutting land.
LANE
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.
MINOR STREET
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.
SUBDIVISION
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."