For the purpose of these rules and regulations, unless a contrary intention clearly appears, the terms and words defined in MGL c. 41, § 81L, shall have the meanings given therein. The following other terms and words shall have the following meanings:
The person or persons who apply for approval of a proposed subdivision plan. The applicant or applicants must be the owner or owners of all the land included in the proposed subdivision. An agent, representative or his assign may act for an owner, provided that written evidence of such fact is submitted. Evidence, in the form of a list of its officers and the designated authority to sign legal documents, shall be required for a corporation.
The Planning Board of the Town of Whately.
A street which joins another street at only one end.
A registered civil engineer.
An area of land under a single ownership, with specific boundaries, to be used as the site of one or more buildings.
A street which, in the opinion of the Planning Board, is likely to carry substantial volumes of through traffic or one abutting a significant commercial or industrial development.
The owner of record as shown at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds or Land Court.
A street which serves to connect minor streets with major streets.
The division of a tract of land into two or more lots and shall include resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, shall relate to the process of subdivision of the land or territory subdivided; provided, however, that the division of a tract of land in two or more lots shall not be deemed to constitute a "subdivision" within the meaning of the Subdivision Control Law if, at the time when it was made, every lot within the tract so divided has frontage on:
A public way;
A way shown on a plan heretofore approved and endorsed in accordance with the Subdivision Control Law; or
A way in existence when the Subdivision Control Law became effective in the Town of Whately, having, in the opinion of the Planning Board, sufficient construction to provide for the needs of vehicular traffic in relation to the proposed use of the land abutting thereon or served thereby and for the installation of municipal services to serve such land and the buildings erected or to be erected thereon (see § 234-5E).
Such frontage shall be of at least such distance as is then required by zoning or other bylaws for the erection of a building on such lot. Conveyances or other instruments adding to, taking away from or changing the size and shape of lots in such a manner as not to leave any lot so affected without the frontage above set forth or the division of a tract of land in which two or more buildings were standing when the Subdivision Control Law went into effect in the Town of Whately into separate lots on each of which one such building remains standing shall not constitute a "subdivision."
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A registered land surveyor.
The Town of Whately Zoning Bylaw.[1] No subdivision rule may affect the size, shape, width, frontage or use of lots. All subdivisions will fully comply with the Town Zoning Bylaw.