Terms defined. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
CITY PLANNER
The duly designated Planner of the City of Plattsburgh.
[Amended 8-17-2017 by L.L. No. 3-2017]
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway
for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
CUL-DE-SAC STREET
A street with only one means of vehicular ingress and egress
and with a turnaround at its terminus.
EASEMENT
An acquired right of use on the property of another for a
specified purpose.
ENGINEER
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State
of New York.
INTERIOR LOT
A lot enclosed on all sides by other lots and not abutting
a public street.
MAJOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve rapid or heavy
flows of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic
between communities and/or other heavy traffic-generating areas. Arterial
streets and highways are "major streets."
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
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.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET
A local street which is parallel to and adjacent to a major
artery and which provides access to abutting properties and protection
from through traffic.
MASTER PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan prepared and/or approved by the Planning
Board, which indicates the general locations recommended for the various
functional classes of public works, places and structures and for
the general physical development of the City and includes any unit
or part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such
plan or parts thereof.
MINOR STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as access to abutting
properties.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision containing not more than four lots, each
of at least the minimum size as permitted by the Zoning Ordinance, each fronting on an existing public street, not involving
any new street or road 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 provisions or
portion of the Master Plan.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established or to be established by the City Council
showing streets, highways and parks theretofore laid out, adopted
and established by law and any amendments thereto adopted by the City
Council or additions thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision
plats by the Planning Board and the subsequent filing of such approved
plats.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings, clearly marked "preliminary plat," showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in §
300-23 of these regulations, submitted to the Planning Board for purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
The property of a circulatory facility. (See "street width.")
SKETCH PLAN
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in §
300-21 of these regulations to enable the subdivider to reach general agreement with the Planning Board as to the form of the layout and objectives of these regulations.
STREET
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street,
highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, artery, avenue,
boulevard, lane, place or however otherwise designated, between right-of-way
lines.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway use by vehicular
traffic.
STREET WIDTH
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 the street.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein,
either for himself, itself or for others.
SUBDIVISION
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 transfer of ownership or building development. Such
division shall include resubdivision of plats already filed in the
office of the County Clerk if such plats are entirely or partially
undeveloped. Such division may be for residential or nonresidential
use.
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
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 County Clerk.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.