In this chapter, when consistent with the context, the word "lot" includes the word "plat" or "parcel"; words in the present tense also imply the future tense; the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.
For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic way for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
A plan prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law which indicates the general location recommended for various functional classes of public works, places and structures and for general physical development of the Town, and includes any unit or part of such plan separately prepared and any amendment to such plan or parts therein.
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
Those specifications which are promulgated by the Planning Board to supplement and implement these regulations.
The authorization by a property owner for the use by another and for a specified purpose of any designated part of his property.
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State of New York.
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between communities and/or other heavy traffic-generating areas. May also be called an "arterial street."
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
The division of any parcel of land into two, three or four lots or parcels of land, including changes in street lines or lot lines, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or of building development or any division of land.
The map established by the Town pursuant to § 270 of the Town Law, showing streets, highways and parks and drainage, both existing and proposed.
A drawing or drawings clearly marked "preliminary plat" showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in § 220-26 of these regulations, submitted to the Planning Board for the purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other traffic ways between right-of-way lines.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
The width of the right-of-way measured at right angles to the center line of the street.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein, either for himself or others.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots or parcels of land, including changes in street lines or lot lines, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or of building development or any division of land.
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and by these regulations to be presented to the Planning Board for approval and which, if approved, may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant in the office of the County Clerk or Register.