For the purpose of this chapter, certain words used herein are defined as follows:
ARTERIAL STREETA street which serves or is designed to be used primarily for fast or heavy traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETA street which carries traffic from minor streets to the major system of secondary or arterial streets; the principal entrance and circulation streets within a development.
EASEMENTAuthorization by a property owner for the use by another, for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
MAJOR STREETA street intended to serve primarily as a through route for traffic. This includes all state highways and those classified as arterial or collector streets in the development plan.
MINOR STREETA street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting residential properties.
OFFICIAL MAPThe map and any amendment thereto adopted by the Town Board under §
270 of the Town Law.
The date when a subdivision plat shall be considered submitted to the Planning Board, as provided in §
276 of the Town Law, hereby defined to be the date of the meeting of the Planning Board at which all required surveys, plans and data described in Article
IV are submitted.
The preliminary map or drawing on which the subdivider's proposed layout of the subdivision is presented to the Planning Board for consideration and tentative approval.
RESUBDIVISIONA change in a subdivision plat or resubdivision plat filed in the office of the Wayne County Clerk, which change affects any street layout shown on such plat, affects any area reserved thereon for public use or diminishes the size of any lot shown thereon.
SECONDARY STREETA street which serves or is designed to serve as a route connecting different parts of the Town.
SKETCH PLANA freehand sketch made on a topographic survey map showing the proposed subdivision in relation to existing conditions.
STREETA right-of-way for vehicular traffic, including road, avenue, lane, highway or other way.
STREET PAVEMENTThe wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
SUBDIVIDERAny person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who shall lay out, for the purpose of sale or development, any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein, either for himself or others.
SUBDIVISIONThe division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, plots, sites or other division of land, with or without streets, for the purpose of immediate or future sale or building development. Such division shall include resubdivision of plats already filed in the office of the County Clerk if such plats are entirely or partially undeveloped.
A. MINOR SUBDIVISIONAny subdivision containing not more than four lots, each of at least a minimum size as permitted by Chapter
135, Zoning, and each fronting on an existing public street or on a private right-of-way not less than 60 feet wide and extending to an existing public street, not involving any new streets or roads or the extension of municipal facilities, not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining properties and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Master Plan.
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SUBDIVISION PLATThe final map or drawing on which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented to the Planning Board for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the County Clerk for recording.
SUPERINTENDENTThe duly elected Town Superintendent of Highways or other such authorized official.
TOWN PLAN; MASTER PLANA comprehensive plan for 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 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.