For the purpose of these regulations, certain words used
herein are defined as follows:
ARTERIAL STREET
A street which serves or is designed to be used primarily for fast
or heavy traffic.
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which carries traffic from minor streets to the major system
of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential
development and streets for circulation within such a development.
CUL-DE-SAC STREET
A street with only one means of vehicular ingress and egress and
with a turnaround at its terminus.
CURB
A low barrier, usually along the pavement line of a street, road
or highway, controlling surface drainage and separating vehicular areas from
pedestrian and/or landscaped areas.
EASEMENT
An acquired right of use on the property of another.
ENGINEER OR VILLAGE ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the Village of Ellenville or, in
lieu of such an official, the planning consultant or engineer employed by
or assigned to the Village Planning Commission.
INTERIOR LOT
A lot enclosed on all sides by other lots and not abutting a public
street.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET
A minor street which is parallel to and adjacent to an arterial street
and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through
traffic.
MASTER PLAN
A comprehensive plan prepared by the Planning Commission pursuant
to § 7-722 of the Village Law, 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 Village of Ellenville
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.
OFFICIAL DATE OF APPLICATION
Considered to be the date of the first regular meeting of the Planning
Commission following the date on which plats, surveys, plans, documents and/or
applications are first filed with the Village Clerk.
PLAT
The final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plan
of subdivision is presented to the Planning Commission for approval and which,
if approved, will be submitted to the County Clerk for recording.
PRELIMINARY LAYOUT
A preliminary drawing showing the proposed layout of a subdivision
which is submitted to the Planning Commission for its consideration and preliminary
approval.
SKETCH PLAN
A freehand sketch made on a topographic survey map showing the layout
of streets, lots and other features of a proposed subdivision in relation
to existing conditions.
STREET
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway,
thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or
however otherwise designated.
STREET JOG
An intersection of two streets in which one street, upon entering
the second street, does not continue straight across the second street as
follows: the center line of one street, in order to continue the angle at
which it enters each side of the second street to the center line of said
second street must follow the center line of such second street before continuing
across the intersection, thereby describing an offset of the first street's
center line.
[Amended 6-1-1987 by L.L No. 2-1987]
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The width of the right-of-way or the distance between property lines
on opposite sides of a street.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association which shall
lay out, for the purpose of development and/or sale, any subdivision, as defined
herein, either for himself, itself or for others.
SUBDIVISION
Any parcel of land which is divided into two or more lots, plots,
sites or other divisions, with or without streets, for immediate or future
sale or for building development. The division of a parcel within an established
subdivision plat or the redesign of any plat shall be considered a new "subdivision."
[Amended 6-18-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990]