For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms used
herein are defined as follows:
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the Village prepared by the Planning Board
pursuant to § 7-722 of the Village Law which indicates the
general locations recommended for various public works and reservations
and for the general physical development of the Village and includes
any part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such
plan of parts thereof.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers
or drainage ditches, or required along a natural stream or watercourse
for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein
to safeguard the public against flood damage.
The lands created through authorization by a property owner
for the use by another and for a specified purpose of any designated
part of his property.
The duly designated engineer of the Village of Dansville.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A piece, parcel, or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer
of ownership or for development.
The map established by the Village Board of Trustees under
§ 7-724 of the Village Law showing the streets, highways,
and parks heretofore laid out, adopted, and established by law, and
any amendments thereto adopted by the Village Board of Trustees or
additions thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision plats
by the Planning Board and the subsequent filing of such approved plats.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The date when a subdivision plat shall be considered submitted to the Planning Board, and is hereby defined to be the date of a meeting of the Planning Board at which all required surveys, plans, and data described in Article VI are submitted.
Any security which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement
that certain improvements be made before the Planning Board approves
a plat, including performance bonds, escrow agreements, and other
similar collateral or surety agreements.
The Town of North Dansville Planning Board as established
pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 64, § 271 of the Town
Law. The Planning Board is a joint board of the Town of North Dansville
and the Village of Dansville.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Board for its consideration and meeting the requirements of Article VI.
Revision of all or part of an existing filed plat including
consolidation of lots.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane parkway, alley,
or other way which is an existing state, county, town or Village roadway
or way shown upon a plat theretofore approved pursuant to law or approved
by official action or a street or way on a plat duly filed and recorded
in the office of the County Clerk of Livingston County prior to the
appointment of a Planning Board and the grant to such Board of the
power to review plats, and includes the land between the street lines
whether improved or unimproved and may comprise pavement, shoulders,
gutters, sidewalks, parking area, and other areas within the street
lines. For the purpose of this chapter, streets shall be classified
as follows:
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
"Arterial streets" are those which do or are intended to carry
heavy traffic.
"Collector streets" are those which carry traffic from minor
streets to the major system of arterial streets.
"Minor streets" or "local residential streets" are those which
are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
"Marginal service streets" are streets which are parallel to
and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access
to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
Alleys are minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular
service to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on
a street.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
The distance between property lines or right-of-way lines.
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.
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, or transfer of ownership or building development and shall
include resubdivision; provided, however, that the public acquisition
by purchase of strips of land for the widening or opening of streets
shall not be included within this definition nor subject to these
regulations.
A "major subdivision" is any 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 extension
of municipal facilities.
A "minor subdivision" is 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
Comprehensive Plan, Official Map, or Zoning Ordinance,[1] if such exists, or these regulations.
A drawing, 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 or recorded by the applicant
in the office of the Livingston County Clerk.
The officially adopted Zoning Law (Chapter 330) of the Code of the Village of Dansville together with any and all amendments thereto.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
