Except where specifically defined herein, all
words and terms shall carry their customary meaning. For the purpose
of this chapter, certain words and terms used herein are defined as
follows:
BUILDING LOT
Any lot upon which a principal residential or commercial
building can be constructed in conformance with the requirements of
the Zoning chapter.
CITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A comprehensive plan for development of the City prepared
and adopted by the Planning Board, pursuant to § 28-a of
the General City Law, and includes any part of such plan separately
adopted and any amendment to such plan, or parts thereof.
CITY COUNCIL
The City Council of the City of Beacon, New York.
CONSTRUCTION PLANS
The maps and engineering drawings, described in §
195-28 of this chapter, accompanying a subdivision plat and showing the specific location and design of improvements to be installed in the subdivision in accordance with this chapter.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
ENGINEER
A civil engineer licensed as a professional engineer by the
State of New York.
LOT
A parcel of land not divided by a street or private road.
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT
Any conveyance of real property between adjacent landowners
which does not result in additional buildable lot(s) nor creates a
zoning deficiency in any existing zoning compliant lot. A lot line
adjustment is not considered a subdivision for purposes of this chapter.
[Added 7-2-2018 by L.L. No. 12-2018]
MAINTENANCE BOND
A bond to assure the maintenance of required subdivision
improvements following dedication of such improvements for such period
as required by the Planning Board.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map as it may be established and adopted by the City
Council, under § 26 of the General City Law, showing the
streets, highways and parks theretofore laid out, adopted and established
by law, and any amendments or additions thereto resulting from the
approval of subdivision plats by the Planning Board and the subsequent
filing of such approved plats.
OFFICIAL SUBMITTAL DATE
The date when a subdivision plat, accompanied by all other
information required with the application for subdivision approval,
is received by the Planning Board.
PLAT
A drawing, in final form, as described in §§
195-29 and
195-30 of this chapter, showing a proposed subdivision and containing all of the information required by these or other applicable regulations and certified by a licensed land surveyor or registered engineer.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
The preliminary drawing or drawings, described in §
195-27 of this chapter, showing the basic features of a proposed subdivision.
PREMATURE SUBDIVISION
A subdivision which is either undeveloped or only partially
developed, and contains an inadequate street system, lot arrangement
or other similar design deficiency that would preclude or make impractical
its full and proper future development in accordance with current
development standards.
PRIVATE ROAD
A road which is privately owned and maintained.
RESUBDIVISION
Any change in a subdivision plat or resubdivision plat approved
by the Planning Board and filed in the office of the Dutchess County
Clerk, which change affects any street and/or lot layout shown on
such plat or affects any area reserved thereon for public use or diminishes
the size of any lot shown thereon.
[Amended 7-2-2018 by L.L. No.
12-2018]
STREET
An existing public, state, county or City road or highway;
a public street shown upon a plat approved by the Planning Board,
or a public street shown on a plat duly filed and recorded in the
Office of the County Clerk prior to the authority granted to the Planning
Board to approve such plats.
STREET, DEAD-END
A street, or a portion of a street, with only one vehicular
traffic outlet.
STREET, LOCAL
A street which serves or is designed to serve primarily as
access to abutting residential properties.
STREET, MAJOR
A street which serves or is designed to serve primarily as
a route for traffic between communities and/or large areas of the
City.
STREET PAVEMENT
The bituminous concrete of the street right-of-way designed
to be used by vehicular traffic.
STREET, SUBURBAN
A street which serves or is designed to serve as access to
abutting properties and to carry traffic from adjoining local streets
to the system of major streets.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association,
who shall lay out, for the purpose of sale or development, any subdivision,
or part thereof, as defined herein.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land, regardless of use, into
two or more lots, plots, blocks, sites or parcels, with or without
the creation of new streets or private roads, for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building development,
and shall include resubdivision as defined herein. Subdivision does
not include lot line adjustments as defined in this chapter.
[Amended 7-2-2018 by L.L. No.
12-2018]
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.
ZONING CHAPTER
The Zoning Chapter of the Code of the City of Beacon, New
York, and all amendments thereto.