[Amended 4-20-2004 by L.L. No. 8-2004]
Whenever Chapter
300, Zoning, provides that a site plan or parking plan shall require the approval of the Planning Board, Town Board or Zoning Board of Appeals, said plan shall be submitted to the Board having jurisdiction ("the approval authority") in accordance with the provisions contained in this article.
The following documents shall be submitted to
the Board for site plan or parking plan approval:
A. A site plan or parking plan, legibly drawn in ink
or pencil on tracing paper or cloth, in sheets not exceeding 30 inches
by 40 inches, at a scale not smaller than 20 feet to the inch and
showing:
(1) Proposed project name, date, North point, scale, name
and address of owner, developer, engineer, architect and site planner,
tax assessment section, parcel, block and lot number or numbers and
name of the Town and county in which the site is located.
(2) Boundaries of the property (metes and bounds survey), easements, watercourses, marshes, rock outcroppings, wooded areas, single trees with a diameter of eight inches or more, regulated buffer zones as defined by §
270-4 of the Code of the Town of Yorktown on all existing and proposed lot lines, and within those buffers all trees with a diameter at breast height of six inches or more and a minimum height of 25 feet, and other significant ecological and topographical features on or adjacent to the property to be developed.
[Amended 12-14-2010 by L.L. No. 16-2010]
(3) Existing and proposed contours at intervals of two
feet or less, referred to a datum specified by the Town Engineer;
basement and first floor elevations; curb elevations at street intersection
and at all building entrances; and existing and proposed grade differentials
and treatment thereof at all property lines. If necessary for clarity,
a grading plan shall be submitted as a separate drawing.
(4) Adjacent roadways and sidewalks.
(5) Location of existing and proposed sewers, water mains,
culverts, drains and manholes.
(6) Location, dimensions and entrances of all proposed
buildings on the site and any existing structures to remain.
(7) Location and dimensions of driveways, walks, exterior
and interior parking and loading spaces and play areas.
(8) Location and dimensions of all yards and courts and
distances between buildings at the points where they come closest
to one another.
(9) Location and types of retaining walls, guardrails
and other protective features.
(10)
Zoning districts of and adjacent to the site.
(11)
The site plans or parking plans submission shall
include at least three major elevations of the building.
(12)
The site plans or parking plans submission shall
include a vicinity map, at a scale of not less than 100 feet to the
inch, showing the buildings on each of the contiguous lots.
(13)
A schedule including:
(b)
Total floor area and floor area ratio.
(c)
Percent of coverage of total area of plot.
(d)
Height and number of stories of each building.
(e)
Total number of dwelling units.
(f)
Size, number of rooms and net area for each
dwelling unit.
(g)
Area of usable open space.
(h)
Number of exterior and interior parking and
loading spaces.
B. A landscape plan showing location and types of trees,
shrubs and planting beds.
C. Consent of owner if different from applicant.
D. Any additional data the Board determines necessary
for its consideration of the plan.
E. The above shall be submitted to the Engineering Department
with an AutoCAD compatible file of the as-built plan showing all utilities.
[Added 4-4-2000 by L.L. No. 23-2000]
[Amended 1-25-1994 by L.L. No. 3-1994; 5-17-1994 by L.L. No. 18-1994]
The following shall be deemed to be minimum requirements and shall be varied, deferred or waived by the Board only under circumstances set forth in Article
VIII, §
195-40. The Board is empowered to impose higher planning and design standards than herein set forth where it finds that because of exceptional and unique conditions of topography, location, shape, size, drainage or other physical features of the site, or because of the special nature and character of surrounding development, the minimum standards could not reasonably protect or provide for public health, safety or welfare.
A. The site plan or parking plan shall conform to all the requirements specified in Chapter
300, Zoning.
B. The layout of buildings, driveways, walks, parking
and loading spaces and other features of the site plan or parking
plan shall be established with due regard to:
(1) Public convenience and safety.
(2) Proposed use of the site.
(3) Proper relation to pedestrian and vehicular traffic
and to uses in the adjacent areas.
(4) Topography and other land features.
C. The layout of the site plan or parking plan shall
furthermore be arranged in a manner acceptable to the Board.
D. Driveways shall not exceed the following grades:
(1) In residential development, 10%.
(2) In nonresidential development, 5%.
(3) Within 30 feet of the street right-of-way line (in
residential or nonresidential development), 3%.
E. Obstructions to visibility over 2 1/2 feet high,
other than trees with a trunk diameter of under 18 inches, shall be
prohibited in the triangles formed by the street right-of-way line,
the edge of the driveway and a line joining points located along the
street right-of-way line and the edges of the driveway, 30 feet from
their intersection.
F. Driveways shall intersect street lines at right angles,
and shall be located at least 30 feet from a street corner.
G. Grades of open parking and loading areas shall not
exceed 3% and shall not be less than 1%.
H. Required street widening strips as determined by the
Town Engineer, based upon the Official Map, Comprehensive Plan or
proposed construction plans on file, shall be indicated on the submitted
plan. In addition, each site plan or parking plan on a road having
less than a fifty-foot right-of-way shall indicate sufficient widening
to achieve required right-of-way widths.