For the purpose of these rules and regulations, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending the physical development of the town prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law which indicates the general locations recommended for various public works and reservations and for the general physical development of the town and includes any part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
[Amended 12-11-2001 by L.L. No. 2-2001]
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the other end being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
These criteria and specifications are regulations which have been adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Richmond and include those amendments, additions or deletions which the Town Board shall adopt from time to time by resolution.[1]
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers or drainage ditches or required along a natural stream or watercourse for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein to safeguard the public against flood damage.
The lands created through authorization by a property owner for the use by another and for a specified purpose of any designated part of his property.
The land-water boundary of a natural watercourse flowing at a frequency defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (Flood Insurance Administration) where appropriate or, in the absence of HUD defined floodplain limits, as defined by the town.
Security guaranteeing that certain or all improvements will be made in accordance with the approved plans.
A piece, parcel or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development.
A map established by the Ontario County Board of Supervisors pursuant to § 239-e of the General Municipal Law.
The map established by the Town Board under § 270 of the Town Law showing the streets, highways and parks heretofore laid out, adopted and established by law and any amendments thereto adopted by the Town Board or additions thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision plats by the Planning Board and the subsequent filing of such approved plats.
The Town of Richmond Planning Board as established pursuant to the provisions of Article 16 of the Town Law.
A meeting held with the Code Enforcement Officer or a designee of the Code Enforcement Officer, and a member of the Planning Board with an applicant prior to submitting an application. The purpose of the meeting is to review all the application requirements, regulations, timeline, current fee schedule, and any other information that will assist the applicant in preparing a complete application for submission.
[Added 10-13-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Board for its consideration and meeting the requirements of Article V of these regulations.
A strip of land between the existing right-of-way line and the future right-of-way line of a highway as determined by the agency having jurisdictional responsibility over the maintenance and construction of the highway. Where a reservation is required, the front lot line shall be considered to be coincident with the future right-of-way line, with front setbacks and any other necessary lot measurements being measured from the future right-of-way line. Where there is no requirement for a reservation for highway purposes, the front lot line shall be considered to be coincident with the existing right-of-way line, with front setbacks and any other necessary lot measurements being measured from the existing right-of-way line.
Revision of all or part of an existing filed plat, or any change of a lot line, including consolidation of lots.
[Amended 10-13-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
Pre-preliminary plan or drawings of a proposed project.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley or other way which is an existing or proposed state, county or town roadway or way shown upon a plat theretofore approved pursuant to law or approved by official action or a street or way on a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of the County Clerk of Ontario County prior to the appointment of a Planning Board and the grant to such Board of the power to review plats, and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, parking area and other areas within the street lines or right-of-way. For the purpose of these rules and regulations, streets shall be classified as follows:
A.
ARTERIAL STREETS -- Those which are used primarily by a heavy volume of traffic.
B.
COLLECTOR STREETS -- Those which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
C. STREET PAVEMENT STREET WIDTH SUBDIVISION(1) (2) SUBDIVISION PLAT OR FINAL PLAT TIME LIMITS TOWN ENGINEER VIEWSHED ZONING LAW
MINOR STREETS or LOCAL RESIDENTIAL STREETS -- Those which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
The distance between property lines or right-of-way lines.
The subdividing of any parcel of land into two or more lots, plots, sites or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building development and shall include resubdivision.
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and by these rules and regulations to be presented to the Planning Board for approval and which, if approved, shall be duly filed or recorded by the applicant in the office of the Ontario County Clerk.
Refers to the time limits specified in § 276 of the Town Law of the State of New York, as amended. In the event a time limit in these rules and regulations shall be at variance with the current statutory authority of the State of New York, such statutory time period shall govern.
A licensed professional engineer, either employed by the town as staff or appointed annually as a town consulting engineer, competent in the areas of civil and sanitary engineering and related land planning and retained for the purpose of advising the town in such matters.
An area of land, water, or another environmental element that is visible to the human eye from a fixed vantage point.
[Added 10-13-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
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Editor's Note: The design standards are on file in the offices of the Town Clerk and Code Enforcement Officer.