For the purpose of this chapter, certain words
and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COMPREHENSIVE OR MASTER PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan, prepared by the Planning Board pursuant
to § 272-a of the Town Law, as amended, 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 or supplement to such plan or part therein.
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF A FINAL PLAT
Approval of a final plat subject to conditions set forth
by the Planning Board in a resolution conditionally approving such
plat. Such conditional approval does not qualify a final plat for
recording prior to the signing of the plat by a duly authorized officer
of the Planning Board.
CURB CUT
A cut through a curb and sidewalk, that enables a vehicle
to drive to a driveway, garage, parking lot, loading dock, or drive-through.
[Added 4-9-2020 by L.L.
No. 4-2020]
CURB RAMP
A short ramp built into the curb of a sidewalk to ease pedestrian
passage to the street, driveway, or parking lot, especially for people
using wheelchairs, walkers, and pushing baby carriages or strollers.
Pedestrian curb ramps shall provide an Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA) compliant accessible pathway between sidewalks and streets
at intersections, crosswalks, and driveway crossings.
[Added 4-9-2020 by L.L.
No. 4-2020]
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
A statement, completed in its entirety by the subdivider,
on a form provided by the Planning Board, which requires disclosure
of the nature and extent of interest, if any, of any state official
or municipal officer or employee in the application, petition or request
accompanying the statement.
DROP CURB
See "curb ramp."
[Added 4-9-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
EASEMENT
A written authorization by the property owner, acknowledged
and executed in such a form as to allow it to be recorded in the office
of the County Clerk, which permits the use by another and for a specified
purpose of a designated portion of the land of the property owner,
which authorization shall be without limit as to time and duration.
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
The signing of a final plat by a daily authorized officer
of the Planning Board after a resolution granting final approval of
the plat or after conditions specified in a resolution granting conditional
approval of the plat are completed. Such final approval qualifies
the plat for recording in the office of the Putnam County Clerk.
LOCAL STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting
properties.
LOOP ROAD
A street serving all lots within a subdivision and connecting
with one or more local streets outside of a proposed subdivision.
Connection points to one or more local streets shall be separated
by a minimum of 50 feet.
[Added 4-24-2003 by L.L. No. 8-2003]
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision, including
but not limited to subdivisions of five or more lots or any size subdivision
requiring any new street or extension of municipal facilities.
MAJOR THOROUGHFARE
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.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision containing not more than four lots fronting on an existing street; not involving any new street or road or the extension of municipal facilities; not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property; not involving more than one acre of disturbance; not requiring a Town of Southeast freshwater wetlands permit, except for an activity of minor significance as specified in § 78-4H; and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Comprehensive or Master Plan, Official Map, if such exists, or Chapter
138, Zoning, or this chapter. A proposed subdivision or resubdivision shall only be classified as a minor subdivision if the sketch plan incorporates all of the tract from which lots are proposed to be divided.
[Amended 3-9-2017 by L.L.
No. 1-2017]
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Town Board pursuant to §§ 270
and 273 of the Town Law, as amended, showing streets, highways and
parks and drainage, both existing and proposed.
OFFICIAL SUBMISSION DATE
The date when a preliminary subdivision plat or final subdivision
plat accompanied by all other information required with the application
for preliminary plat or final plat approval is received by the administrative
assistant to the Planning Board or other official designated by the
Planning Board to receive such submittals.
PERMANENT DEAD-END STREET
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular
traffic outlet. (See "dead-end street" or "cul-de-sac.")
[Added 4-24-2003 by L.L. No. 8-2003]
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings, clearly marked "preliminary plat," showing the features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in Article
V, §
123-30, of this chapter.
PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL
Approval by the Planning Board of the layout of a proposed
subdivision as set forth in a preliminary plat, but subject to approval
of the plat in final form in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter.
RESUBDIVISION
Any change of existing property lines or of property lines
shown on plat approved by the Planning Board and filed in the office
of the County Clerk of Putnam County, New York.
SECONDARY THOROUGHFARE
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a traffic
way for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
SKETCH PLAN
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in Article
V, §
123-29, of this chapter.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
STREET or THOROUGHFARE
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other trafficways
between right-of-way lines.
STREET WIDTH
The width of the right-of-way, measured at right angles to
the center line of the street.
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 the
date of adoption of this chapter and irrespective of the period of
time over which said division of land is made, into two or more lots,
blocks or sites, with or without streets, for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of sale, lease, gift, devise, conveyance of or
transfer of title or division by other means for building development,
and which shall include resubdivision as defined in § 276
of the Town Law, as amended, and which shall include condominiums
as provided in Article 9-B of the Real Property Law.
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 chapter
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.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New
York.
TOWN
The Town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York.