For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms used
herein are defined as follows:
That representative or those representatives of the Planning
Board, either member, employee or consultant, who shall be designated
to perform the duties of the Clerk of the Planning Board for purposes
of this chapter.
That licensed professional engineer, either employee or consultant,
who shall be chosen by the Town Board upon recommendation of the Planning
Board to perform the duties of the designated Town Engineer for purposes
of this chapter.
An acquired right of use on the property of another, for
a specified purpose on a designated part of that property.
A person licensed as a Professional Engineer by the State
of New York.
The Environmental Conservation Law of the State of New York,
Chapter 43-B of the Consolidated Laws.
The final maps, drawings and charts on which the subdivider's
plan of subdivision containing all information or detail required
by law and by this chapter is presented to the Planning Board for
approval and which, if approved, shall be submitted to the Columbia
County Clerk for filing or recording in order to complete the subdivision
approval process.
A physical change to the land or installation of certain
services necessary to produce usable and desirable lots or sites from
raw acreage, including but not limited to water and sewer facilities,
recreation and open space areas, grading, pavement, curbs, gutters,
storm sewers and drains and betterments to existing watercourses,
sidewalks and other pedestrianways, street signs, shade trees, sodding
or seeding and monuments, whether such improvement is intended to
be dedicated and maintained by the public, or held in private ownership.
Chapter 120, Zoning, of the Town of Stockport, together with any and all amendments thereto, in accordance with Article 16 of the Town Law and Articles 2 and 3 of the Municipal Home Rule Law.
A Comprehensive Plan for the general physical development
of the Town of Stockport prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to
§ 272-a of Town Law.
The map which may be established by the Town Board under
§ 270 of the Town Law showing streets, highways and parks
and drainage theretofore 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 Planning Board of the Town of Stockport, Columbia County,
New York.
The map of a subdivision showing the location, boundaries
and proposed ownership of individual properties and associated improvements.
The maps, drawings and other data showing the layout of a proposed subdivision, as specified in § 105-30, submitted to the Planning Board for approval prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board of the layout and improvements within such proposed subdivision.
The Public Health Law of the State of New York, Chapter 45
of the Consolidated Laws.
Any change in the plat of a subdivision which has previously
been filed in the office of the Columbia 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.
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information
required by this chapter to enable the subdivider to save time and
expense in reaching general agreement with the Planning Board as to
the form of the layout and the objectives of this chapter. A sketch
plat shall be drawn to scale but need not have the accuracy of an
engineering drawing.
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street,
highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, artery, avenue,
boulevard, lane, place, drive or however otherwise designated, which
is an existing public way or a way shown upon a subdivision plat approved
by the Town Planning Board, as provided by this chapter, or on a plat
duly filed and recorded in the office of the Columbia County Clerk.
MAJOR STREETA 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.
COLLECTOR STREETA street which serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
LOCAL RESIDENTIAL STREETA street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
DEAD-END STREET or CUL-DE-SACA local residential street or portion of a local residential street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic, i.e., the traveled way.
The width of the right-of-way or the distance between property
lines on opposite sides of a street, measured at right angles to the
center line of such street.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
which shall lay out for the purpose of development, sale or lease
any subdivision as defined herein, either for himself, itself or for
others.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
plots, sites or other division of land for the purpose, whether immediate
or future, of lot line alteration, transfer of ownership, lease for
other than agricultural or conservation purposes or building development.
Such division shall include resubdivision of parcels of land for which
an approved plat has already been filed in the office of the County
Clerk and which is entirely or partially undeveloped. For the purposes
of these land subdivision regulations, a parcel shall be considered
already to have been divided into two or more lots by one or more
public streets or railroad or utility rights-of-way held in fee simple.
LOT LINE ALTERATIONA type of minor subdivision resulting in a modification of the boundary of an existing, legally established lot which does not result in the creation of any new lot nor create any nonconformity with result to any area or bulk requirement established by Chapter 120, Zoning, the Columbia County Health Department, the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code, or other law, rule or regulation.
MINOR SUBDIVISIONAny subdivision containing not more than four lots, each of at least the minimum lot area and dimension permitted by Chapter 120, Zoning, each fronting on an existing street not involving any new street or road, whether intended to be private or public, 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, if any, Official Map, Chapter 120, Zoning or this chapter.
MAJOR SUBDIVISIONAny subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision, including but not limited to subdivisions of five or more lots, or any size subdivision requiring any new street or any extension of Town facilities.
The duly elected Superintendent of Highways of the Town of
Stockport.
A person licensed as a professional land surveyor by the
State of New York.
The Town Board of the Town of Stockport, Columbia County,
New York.
The Town Law of the State of New York, Chapter 62 of the
Consolidated Laws.
