These rules and regulations of the Palmer Planning Board shall
be known and may be cited as the "Rules and Regulations Governing
the Subdivision of Land, Town of Palmer, Massachusetts," which herein
are called "these Rules and Regulations."
The Rules and Regulations Governing the Subdivision of Land,
Town of Palmer, Massachusetts, have been enacted for the purpose of
protecting the safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants
of Palmer by regulating the laying out and construction of ways in
subdivisions providing access to the several lots therein, but which
have not become public ways, and ensuring sanitary conditions in subdivisions,
and, in proper cases, parks and open areas. The powers of the Planning
Board and the Board of Appeals under these Rules and Regulations shall
be exercised with due regard for the provision of adequate access
to all of the lots in a subdivision by ways that will be safe and
convenient for travel; for lessening congestion in such ways and in
the adjacent public ways; for reducing danger to life and limb in
the operation of motor vehicles; for securing safety in the case of
fire, flood, panic, and other emergencies; for ensuring compliance
with the Palmer Zoning Bylaw(s);[1] for securing adequate provision for water, sewerage, drainage, underground utility services, fire, police, streetlighting and other similar municipal equipment, and other requirements where necessary in a subdivision; and for coordinating the ways in a subdivision with each other and with the public ways in the Town and with the ways in neighboring subdivisions. It is the intent of these Rules and Regulations that any subdivision plan filed with the Planning Board shall receive the approval of such Board if said plan conforms to the recommendation of the Board of Health and to these Rules and Regulations: provided, however, that the Planning Board may, when appropriate, waive, as provided for in § 215-1.6, such portions of these Rules and Regulations as is deemed advisable.
Under the authority vested in the Planning Board of the Town
of Palmer by MGL c. 41, § 81Q, said Board hereby adopts
these Rules and Regulations governing the subdivision of land in the
Town of Palmer.
