For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms used
herein are defined as follows:
The Planning Board of the Incorporated Village of Sag Harbor.
A form of subdivision planning in which the dimensional regulations
and the types of housing, but not the density requirements, as established
in the Zoning Code[1] for residential districts, may be varied, resulting in
flexibility of design and the setting aside of certain lands as permanent
open space.
A restriction established in a real estate deed to permit
the use of private land by a public agency or a public utility for
specified purposes, or to protect some special quality of the private
land for specified purposes.
A map, 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 by the applicant in the office of the County Clerk.
Streets, pavements, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water mains,
sanitary and storm sewers, street signs, street trees and other appropriate
items, which may, pursuant to law, be required of the subdivider to
install as herein provided, and some or all of which requirements
may be waived by the Planning Board as herein provided.
The unit or units into which land is divided with the intention
of offering such units for sale, either as undeveloped or developed
sites, regardless of how they are conveyed. "Lot" shall also mean
parcel, plot, site or any similar term.
A bond furnished by the developer to guarantee upkeep and
the workmanship and materials of all required improvements for a period
of one year from the date of release of the performance bond by the
Village.
A security bond which is posted by the subdivider to guarantee
to the Village that the subdivider will faithfully construct, or cause
to be constructed, the required improvements and utilities which are
an integral part of his approved final plat and, furthermore, that
the construction shall conform to the design specifications established
by the Planning Board.
Includes map, plan, layout and other similar terms, as applicable.
See definitions for "final plat" and "preliminary plat."
The preliminary drawing or drawings of sufficient detail
indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be
submitted to the Planning Board for purposes of consideration prior
to the submission of the plat in final form.
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing information 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 these regulations.
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other traffic
ways between right-of-way lines.
COLLECTOR STREETA street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic way for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major system of streets.
CUL-DE-SACA short dead-end street terminating in a vehicular turnaround area.
HIGHWAYA street which serves heavy flows of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between communities or other heavy traffic generating areas.
MARGINAL ROADA street, within a subdivision, located on a separate right-of-way parallel and adjacent to a highway, designed to provide access to abutting properties without interrupting highway traffic except at widely spaced access points.
The wearing surface or exposed surface of the roadway used
by vehicular traffic.
The width of a right-of-way, measured at right angles to
the center lines of the street.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who or which shall lay out for the purpose of sale or development
any subdivision or any part thereof, either for himself, itself or
others, in which latter case the names of such others shall also appear
on the application.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
blocks or sites, whether or not such division creates new streets
and includes resubdivision.
[Amended 12-3-1985]
SUBDIVISION, MAJORAny division of land which creates five or more lots, with or without new streets.
SUBDIVISION, MINORAny division of land which creates no more than four lots, with or without new streets.
The Village municipality, the Board of Trustees, the elected
officials of Sag Harbor Village: the Mayor and four Trustees.
All those areas within the Village of Sag Harbor customarily
inundated at mean high-water tides, including intertidal salt marshes,
which shall be presumed to be those areas between salt marsh grass
(Spartina alterniflora) and high tide bush (Iva frutescens v.) and
upon which grows some, but not necessarily all, of the following:
black grass (Juncus gerardi), salt meadow grass (Spartina patens)
and spike grass (Distichlis spicata).
