For the purposes of this Part
1, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The Comprehensive Plan, prepared by the Planning Board pursuant
to § 272-a of the Town Law, which indicates the general
locations recommended for various functional classes of public works,
places and structures and for general physical development of the
Town, and includes any unit or part of such plan separately prepared
and any amendment to such plan or parts therein.
[Amended 1-6-1998 by L.L. No. 3-1998]
CONSTRUCTION DETAIL PLANS
Engineering drawings prepared by a licensed engineer showing
details and results of engineering designs for proposed improvements.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
INTERESTED PARTIES
The owner or owners of property immediately adjoining or
abutting the parcel or parcels to which an action, as herein defined,
is contemplated. Properties on the opposite side of a road running
along said parcel shall also be notified, and/or any other party otherwise
designated as an interested party by the Planning Board.
[Added 3-16-1982; amended 1-16-1990 by L.L. 1-1990]
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision, including
but not limited to a subdivision of six or more lots or any size subdivision
requiring any new street.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision of a tract of land containing not more than five lots, fronting on an existing street, not involving any new street or road, not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining properties and not in conflict with any provision of or portion of the Comprehensive Plan, Official Map, Chapter
300, Zoning, or this Part
1.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Town Board pursuant to § 270
of the Town Law, showing streets, highways, parks and drainage, both
existing and proposed.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings clearly marked "preliminary plat" showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in Article
V, §
195-26, of this Part
1, submitted to the Planning Board for purposes of consideration prior to submission of the "plat in final form" and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
PUBLIC HEARING
A hearing conducted for the purposes of eliciting input from
the public and acquiring information or evidence which will be considered
in evaluating an application and which will produce a record that
is to be the basis for decision-making action by the approval authority;
the "public hearing" contemplated by § 274-a, 276, and 277
of the New York State Town Law.
[Added 4-20-2004 by L.L. No. 8-2004]
PUBLIC INFORMATIONAL HEARING
An informal, nonadjudicatory meeting conducted primarily
for the purpose of informing the community about the proposed project
and neither intended nor designed to produce a record that is to be
the basis of decision-making action by the approval authority; not
the "public hearing" contemplated by §§ 274-a, 276,
and 277 of the New York State Town Law.
[Added 4-20-2004 by L.L. No. 8-2004]
STREET
Streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other trafficways, between
right-of-way lines.
STREET, COLLECTOR
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway
for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
STREET, HALF
A street paralleling the boundary of a subdivision and lying
partly in an abutting tract.
STREET, MAJOR
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows
of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between
communities and/or other heavy traffic generating areas.
STREET, MINOR
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting
properties.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY WIDTH
The width of right-of-way, measured at right angles to the
center line of the street, and includes all lands between property
lines.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein,
either for himself or others.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land, as it existed on March 1, 1966, as shown on the Town tax maps and irrespective of the period of time of which said division of land is made, into two or more lots, plots, sites or other division of land for the purpose whether immediate or future of the transfer of ownership or of building development and which shall include resubdivision as defined in § 276 of the Town Law. A division of a parcel of land for the purpose of transfer of ownership, however, shall not be considered a subdivision if such division and transfer does not create one or more new lots or sites for building or development and/or does not reduce the size or dimension of any parcel remaining after such transfer in such a way as to create or to increase any nonconformity to the requirements of Chapter
300, Zoning.
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and by this Part
1 to be presented to the Planning Board for approval, and which if approved may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant in the office of the County Clerk or Register.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the Town of Yorktown.
ZONING ORDINANCE
The officially adopted Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Yorktown, including all amendments thereto as of the date of consideration, known as Chapter
90 of this Code.