As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meaning indicated:
APPLICANT
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company, organization or entity of any kind who or which requests
the Village of its Planning Board or Village Board to approve a development
or is required to apply for a permit for a public improvement pursuant
to this chapter.
DEVELOPER
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind who or which constructs or proposes
to construct one or more highways, drainage facilities, utilities
or other facilities within or in conjunction with a development and
to convey or dedicate the same to the Village or which shall require
Village maintenance.
DEVELOPMENT
A subdivision or any residential or commercial construction
requiring site plan approval under this chapter or other law or ordinance
of the Village of Akron or which requires a public improvement permit.
DRAINAGE FACILITY
All surface water drainage facilities, including but not
limited to detention and retention basins, storm sewers and their
appurtenances, drainage swales and ditches, and any easements through
or over which said facilities may be constructed or installed in or
in connection with a development.
HIGHWAY
A street, avenue, road, square, place, alley, lane, boulevard,
concourse, parkway, driveway, overpass and underpass and all items
appurtenant thereto, including but not limited to bridges, gutters,
culverts, ditches, shoulders and sidewalks in or in connection with
a development.
PARK
An area of land located within or constructed in conjunction
with a development which is open to the public and devoted to active
or passive recreation.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
Any sewer line, water line, highway, curb, gutter, drainage
facility, utility (as defined herein), park, or other facility or
improvement, and all appurtenances, which will at any time be transferred
to or maintained by the Village or which may have a significant effect
on Village facilities, either within or associated with a subdivision
as part of the development of a single parcel or lot.
SITE PLAN REVIEW
Any action involving site approval or review pursuant to
the Village of Akron Zoning Regulations or other laws as existing
or amended from time to time.
SUBDIVISION
A subdivision of land pursuant to the Village of Akron Subdivision
Regulations as amended from time to time.
UTILITIES
All water, sanitary sewer, gas, electric, telephone, and
cable television facilities and any easements through or over which
said facilities may be constructed or installed in or in connection
with a development.
Where applicable, prior to the issuance of a
public improvement permit, the applicant will be required to submit
homeowners' association agreements or any other agreements necessary
to assure maintenance of public-type facilities which are not intended
to be conveyed, transferred or dedicated to the Village in form acceptable
to the Village Attorney. All required easements, dedications, and
right-of-way deeds and/or third-party easements must be recorded in
the Erie County Clerk's office prior to issuance of building permits
for buildings.
Upon completion of all work included in the
public improvement permit in a manner satisfactory to the Village
Engineer, upon the submission of "as built" drawings to the Village
Engineer and receipt and processing of all easements, dedications,
bonds, agreements in a manner acceptable to the Village's Attorney,
the Village Board will issue a certificate of approval.
Nothing in this chapter shall supersede or replace
any provision of the local law for Zoning of the Village of Akron,
the Subdivision Regulations of the Village of Akron, Site Plan Review
Regulations of the Village of Akron, or any other law of the Village
of Akron or any other fees established by the Village. The regulations
and fees established by this chapter shall be in addition to the regulations
and fees established elsewhere or authorized by the Village of Akron
or by state law.