By authority of the Town Board of the Town of Shelter Island pursuant to the provisions of § 276 of Article 16 of the Town Law, the Town of Shelter Island Planning Board is hereby authorized and empowered to approve plats showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, and to approve preliminary plats and to pass and approve the development of plats already filed, within the part of the Town which is outside the limits of any incorporated village.
A. 
These regulations are established to require that every person or corporation, except church cemetery organizations, who, as owner or agent, subdivides real property into lots, plots, blocks or sites with or without streets, regardless of how they are conveyed or for what kind of land use they are intended, file in the offices of the County Clerk, the Town Clerk and Building Inspector of the Town of Shelter Island a map thereof.
B. 
The Planning Board declares that these regulations for the subdivision of land for various purposes are promulgated to provide for the orderly growth and coordinated development of the Town and to assure the comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare of its people, and further that the approval of such subdivisions shall be based on the following considerations:
(1) 
Conformance with the various parts of the Zoning Ordinance and Official Map, if any.
(2) 
Recognition of a desirable relationship to the general land form, its topographic and geologic character, to natural drainage, to the recharge of the groundwater reservoir and to floodplain, coastal barrier and ecological concerns.
(3) 
Recognition of desirable standards of subdivision design for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, surface water runoff, utility services and building sites for the land use contemplated.
(4) 
Encouragement of flexible subdivision design to promote planning objectives, to realize development and maintenance economies and to provide for a variety of housing types.
(5) 
Provision for such facilities as are desirable adjuncts to the contemplated use, such as parks, recreation areas, school sites, firehouses, fire wells and off-street parking.
(6) 
Preservation and protection of such natural resources and assets as lakes, ponds, streams, tidal waters, marshes, beaches, steep slopes, bluffs, flora, fauna, general scenic beauty and historic features of the Town.