[HISTORY: Adopted by the Planning Board of the Town of Northborough. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 10-7-1997]
Any person who wishes to cause to be recorded in the Registry of Deeds or to be filed with the land court a plan of land and who believes that the plan does not require approval under the Subdivision Control Law, may submit the plan, including the mylar, a sepia mylar, six paper copies and six copies of the application (Form A), at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Planning Board accompanied by the necessary evidence to show that the plan does not require approval. Said person shall file, by delivery or registered mail, a notice with the Town Clerk stating the date of submission for such determination and accompanied by a copy of said application. If the notice is given by delivery, the Town Clerk shall, if required, give a written receipt thereof.
A compatible electronic file of the plan, or other alternatives of the plan deemed acceptable by the Planning Board for use in inputting the plan information into the Town’s computerized files shall be required at the time of submittal.
The plan submitted shall be clearly and legibly drawn on Mylar in black India ink. The plan shall be at a scale of one inch equals 40 feet. Sheet sizes shall be either 18 inches by 24 inches or 24 inches by 36 inches. The plan shall show the following information:
A. 
Existing and proposed boundary lines, North point, date and scale.
B. 
Name of record owner and engineer or surveyor.
C. 
Names of all abutters as they appear in the most recent tax list.
D. 
Lines of existing and proposed streets, ways, lots and easements. Sufficient data should be provided to determine the location, direction and length of every street and way line, lot line and boundary line.
E. 
Zoning classifications of all areas shown on the plan, including groundwater district and uplands area as defined as those areas not subject to protection under the Wetlands Protection Act (MGL Ch. 131 Sec. 40) and the Town of Northborough Wetlands Bylaw.
[Amended 10-7-1997; 5-6-2003]
F. 
Location of all permanent bounds properly identified as to whether existing or proposed.
G. 
Endorsement block area with room for the Planning Board to record its action, date of endorsement and signatures.
H. 
Location of existing structures and relation to boundaries.
I. 
A fifty-foot-wide buffer zone (natural or planted) between all commercial or industrial subdivisions abutting any residential development or residential zone.
[Amended 1-4-1988]
J. 
All driveways shall exit onto the frontage street.
[Amended 5-2-1994]
K. 
The plan shall include a notation stipulating the DEP stormwater management policy, as adopted and from time to time amended, shall apply to the division of five or more lots and shall require a filing with the Conservation Commission.
[Amended 10-7-1997]
A. 
In determining whether a way in existence when the Subdivision Control Law became effective in the Town of Northborough is adequate to qualify as a plan as not constituting a subdivision, the Board shall consider the following conditions, among others:
(1) 
The right-of-way is at least 33 feet wide and of reasonable horizontal alignment.
(2) 
The roadway vertical alignment shall not exceed 10% and the horizontal and vertical alignment of the roadway shall provide a minimum 200-foot sight distance.
[Amended 1-14-1991]
(3) 
The roadway pavement shall be a minimum of 22 feet wide with at least a twelve-inch gravel base. An adequate drainage system shall be provided according to the topography and soil characteristics of the area and as approved by the Town Engineer.
[Amended 1-14-1991]
(4) 
The roadway must be bituminous surfaced or have provisions made for such resurfacing without cost to the town.
B. 
When an applicant requests the Town Clerk to certify a way as maintained and used as a public way, the Town Clerk shall submit to the Board written evidence that this is a public way or a way used and maintained as a public way.
C. 
The endorsement of a plan as not requiring approval under Subdivision Control Law does not imply that the lot(s) of land shown on such plan are correctly represented, are building lots or comply with the area requirements of the Zoning Bylaws of the Town of Northborough.
A. 
If the Board determines that the plan does not require subdivision approval, it shall, without a public hearing and within 21 days of submission, endorse the plan with the words, "Planning Board Approval Under Subdivision Control Law Not Required." The plan shall then be returned to the applicant and the Board shall notify the Town Clerk of its action.
B. 
If the Board determines, within 21 days of submission, that the plan requires approval, it shall give written notice of its determination to the Town Clerk and the person submitting the plan.
C. 
If the Board fails to act upon the plan or fails to notify the Town Clerk and the applicant of its action within 21 days after its submission, it shall be deemed to have determined that approval under the Subdivision Control Law is not required, and the Board shall forthwith make such endorsement on said plan, and, on its failure to do so, the Town Clerk shall issue a certificate to the same effect. The plan bearing such endorsement, or the plan and such certificate, as the case may be, shall be delivered by the Board, or in the case of the certificate, by the Town Clerk, to the applicant.