By authority of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Quogue,
pursuant to the provisions of the Village Law, the Village of Quogue
Planning Board is authorized and empowered to approve plats showing
lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, and to
conditionally approve preliminary plats and to approve the development
of plats entirely or partially undeveloped which were filed in the
County Clerk's office prior to the appointment of the Planning
Board and the grant of power to it to approve plats. The Planning
Board is also authorized to review and approve, approve with modifications
or disapprove site plans.
A.
These regulations are established to require that every person or
corporation, except church cemetery organizations, who or which, as
owner or agent, subdivides real property into lots, plots, blocks
or sites, with or without streets, regardless of how they are conveyed
or for what kind of land use they are intended, files in the office
of the County Clerk a map thereof.
[Amended 9-17-1993 by L.L. No. 8-1993]
B.
The Planning Board declares that these regulations for the subdivision
of land for various purposes are promulgated to provide for the orderly
growth and coordinated development of the Village and to assure the
comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare of its people, and
further that the approval of such subdivisions shall be based on the
following considerations:
(1)
Conformance with the various parts of the Master Plan, Chapter 196, Zoning, of the Code of the Village of Quogue, and Official Map, if any.
(2)
Recognition of a desirable relationship to the general land form,
its topographic and geologic character, to natural drainage, to the
recharge of the groundwater reservoir and to floodplain and ecological
concerns.
(3)
Recognition of desirable standards of subdivision design, for pedestrian
and vehicular traffic, surface water runoff, utility services and
building sites for the land use contemplated.
(4)
Encouragement of flexible subdivision design to promote the planning
objectives of the Master Plan and to realize development and maintenance
economies.
(5)
Provision for such facilities as are desirable adjuncts to the contemplated
use, such as parks, recreation areas, school sites, firehouses, fire
wells and off-street parking.
(6)
Preservation and protection of such natural resources and assets
as lakes, ponds, streams, tidal waters, marshes, beaches, dunelands,
flora, fauna, general scenic beauty and historic features of the Village.
As used in this Part 2, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
MAINTENANCE BONDA bond, issued by a bonding or surety company or by the owner, with security acceptable to the Village Board, furnished by the developer to guarantee workmanship, materials and maintenance of all required improvements for a period of one year from the date of release of the performance bond by the Village. If the required improvements are not accepted for dedication by the Village, this bond shall be continued until such acceptance, with an annual review as to sufficiency of the bond.
PERFORMANCE BONDA bond, issued by a bonding or surety company or by the owner, with security acceptable to the Village Board, posted by the developer to ensure the completion of the public improvements in accordance with an estimate prepared by the Village Engineer.
A short dead-end street terminating in a vehicular turnaround
area.
A restriction or grant established in a real estate deed
to permit the use of private land by a public agency or a public utility
for specified purposes or to protect some special quality of the private
land for specified purposes, such as scenic easement.
A restriction established in a real estate deed to control
access from private land to public streets or other public areas.
A person licensed as a professional engineer or licensed
as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
The units into which land is divided, either as undeveloped
or developed sites, regardless of how they are conveyed. "Lot" shall
also mean "parcel," "plot," "site" or any similar term.
A comprehensive plan prepared by the Planning Board for the
future growth, protection and development of the Village, affording
adequate facilities for the housing, transportation, comfort, convenience,
public health, safety and general welfare of its population.
For each location, the nearest, most recent determination
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (National Ocean
Survey) and the listed elevation above mean low water as shown in
their publications entitled "Tidal Bench Marks."
For each location, the most recent determination by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (National Ocean Survey) and
shall be 0.00 feet. All references shall be to the nearest listed
tidal benchmark.
The map established by the Village pursuant to law showing
streets, highways, drainage, parks and preserves, both existing and
proposed.
A dedication or reservation of land in a subdivision for
park purposes, exclusive of lands to be used for drainage recharge.
Money paid in lieu of park dedication to the Village of Quogue
Park Fund for use as provided by law.
The duly appointed Planning Board of the Village of Quogue.
FINAL PLATThe map to be filed with the Planning Board and the County Clerk, in the case of a major subdivision and in the case of a minor subdivision, showing the final arrangement of lots, blocks, streets, drainage, parks and other anticipated improvements shown on the subdivision, if any.
[Amended 9-17-1993 by L.L. No. 8-1993]
PRELIMINARY PLATThe map prepared prior to the final plat for the guidance of the subdivider and the Planning Board, showing the arrangement of lots, blocks, streets, drainage, parks and other anticipated improvements shown on the subdivision, if any.
A pre-preliminary submission of a proposed subdivision, showing the information specified in § 162-17 of these regulations, to enable the subdivider to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Planning Board as to the form of the layout and objectives of these regulations.
COLLECTOR STREETA street generally serving several subdivisions or a comparable rural area designed to have considerable continuity and to accommodate low to moderate speeds and low to medium traffic volumes and intended to channel traffic from local streets to highways.
HIGHWAYA highway, usually under the jurisdiction of the county or state, designed to have extensive continuity and to accommodate moderate speeds and moderately heavy traffic volumes and intended to connect important centers of development.
LOCAL STREET AA street, usually within a subdivision or subdivisions, designed to have considerable continuity and to accommodate low traffic volumes and intended to channel the traffic from other local streets to collector streets and highways.
LOCAL STREET BA street, usually within a subdivision, designed to have limited continuity and to accommodate low speeds and very low traffic volumes and intended solely to provide access to not more than three lots.
MARGINAL ROADA street, within a subdivision, located on a separate right-of-way parallel and adjacent to a highway designed to provide access to abutting properties without interrupting highway traffic, except at widely spaced access points.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof, as defined herein,
either for himself or others, in which latter case their names shall
also appear on the application for subdivision.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
blocks or sites, whether or not such division creates new streets,
and includes resubdivision. The creation of or conversion to a condominium
or cooperative apartment or multiple-family dwelling shall also be
deemed to be a "subdivision" for the purposes of review by the Village
Planning Board pursuant to Article 7 of the Village Law.
SUBDIVISION, MAJORAny division of land which creates five or more lots or dwelling units, with or without new streets.
SUBDIVISION, MINORAny division of land which creates no more than four lots or dwelling units, with or without new streets.
RESUBDIVISIONIncludes any alteration of lot lines or dimensions of lots previously created, including lots shown on a subdivision map previously approved by the Planning Board and lots created prior to the requirement of Planning Board approval.
[Added 9-17-1993 by L.L. No. 8-1993]
All those areas within the Village of Quogue customarily
inundated at mean high water level tides, including intertidal salt
marshes, which shall be presumed to be those areas upon which grow
some, but not necessarily all, of the following: salt marsh grass
(Spartina alterniflora), black grass (Juncus gerardi), salt meadows
grass (Spartina patens), spike-grass (Distichlis spicata) and sand
spurrey (Spergularia marina), and upon which exists salt marsh peat.
The Village Attorney of the Village of Quogue or any duly
appointed Assistant Village Attorney.
A licensed professional engineer retained or employed by
the Village of Quogue.
