Not more than one building designed or available for use for
dwelling purposes shall be erected or placed or converted to use as
such on any lot in a subdivision, or elsewhere in the Town of Palmer,
without the consent of the Board. Such consent may be conditional
upon the providing of adequate ways furnishing access to each site
for such building in the same manner as otherwise required for lots
within a subdivision.
A.
The Planning Board may, in special and appropriate cases, waive strict
compliance with such portions of these Rules and Regulations, as provided
for in MGL c. 41, § 81R, where such section is in the public
interest and not inconsistent with the purpose and intent of the Subdivision
Control Law.
B.
A request, with justification, for a waiver of a requirement, rule,
or regulation shall be made in writing by the applicant at the time
of first submission.
C.
If the Planning Board approves the request for a waiver, it shall
endorse conditions of such waiver (if any) on the plan or set them
forth in a separate instrument attached conditions.
These Rules and Regulations or any portion thereof may be amended
from time to time in accordance with MGL c. 41, § 81Q of
the Subdivision Control Law.
The invalidity of any section, paragraph, clause or provision
of these Rules and Regulations shall not invalidate any other section,
paragraph, clause or provision therein.
In the Town of Palmer, certain services are provided to subdivisions
under the jurisdiction of various Town departments and other quasi-public
agencies. Compliance with the applicable regulations and requirements
of these agencies and departments shall be required before a definitive
plan is approved by the Planning Board, at a regularly scheduled meeting,
and certification and installation of respective utilities shall be
required before the performance guarantee can be reduced or released.
No person shall make a subdivision, within the meaning of the
Subdivision Control Law, of any land within the Town, or proceed with
the improvement or sale of lots in a subdivision, or the construction
of ways, or the installation of municipal services therein, unless
and until a definitive plan of such subdivision has been submitted
to, approved and endorsed by the Board as hereinafter provided, and
recorded at the Hampden County Registry of Deeds.
The recording of a plan of land within the Town in the Registry
of Deeds of Hampden County prior to the effective date of the Subdivision
Control Law in the Town of Palmer, showing the division thereof into
existing or proposed lots, sites or other divisions and ways furnishing
access thereto, shall not exempt such land from the application and
operation of these Rules and Regulations, except as specifically exempt
by MGL c. 41, § 81FF of the Subdivision Control Law.
No plan of a subdivision shall be approved unless all of the
building lots shown on the plan comply with the Zoning Bylaws of the
Town of Palmer, Massachusetts.
The Planning Board may, in special and appropriate cases, require
the developer to follow more stringent standards than the ones mentioned
in these Rules and Regulations. In doing so, the Board shall notify
the developer in writing of said standards and the reason they are
required.
The preliminary and definitive plans shall be prepared by a
registered land surveyor and construction details shall be designed
by a registered professional engineer.
