For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms
used herein are defined as follows:
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic
way for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
DEAD-END STREET
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular
traffic outlet.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions, including
but not limited to subdivisions of five or more lots, or any size
subdivision requiring any new street or extension of municipal facilities.
MASTER OR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A comprehensive plan, prepared by the Planning Board pursuant
to § 7-700 et seq. of the Village Law, which indicates the
general locations recommended for various functional classes of public
works, places and structures and for general physical development
of the Village, and includes any unit or part of such plan separately
adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts therein.
MINOR STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting
properties.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision containing not more than four lots fronting
on an existing street, not involving any new street or road or the
extension of municipal facilities and not adversely affecting the
development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property and
not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Master Plan,
the Official Map or Zoning Ordinance, if such exists, or this chapter.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Village Board pursuant to § 7-724
of the Village Law, showing streets, highways and parks and drainage,
both existing and proposed.
PRELIMINARY LAYOUT
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed
manner of layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning
Board for approval.
SKETCH PLAN
A rough sketch of the preliminary layout (or subdivision
plat, in the case of minor subdivisions) to enable the subdivider
to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Board
as to the form of the layout and objectives of these regulations.
STREET
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other ways between
right-of-way lines.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The distance between property lines, measured at right angles
to the center line of the street.
SUBDIVIDER
Any 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.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land, with or without streets,
into two or more lots, plots, sites or other divisions of land for
the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership.
SUBDIVISION PLAT
The final map on which the applicant's subdivision plat
is presented to the Planning Board for approval and which, if approved,
shall be duly filed by the applicant with the County Clerk.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.