As used in this chapter, the following words and terms used herein are
defined as follows:
That representative or those representatives of the Planning Commission,
either member, employee or consultant, who shall be designated to perform
the duties of the Clerk of the Planning Commission for purposes of this chapter.
The Common Council of the City of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New
York.
The Corporation Counsel of the City of Amsterdam, Montgomery County,
New York.
That licensed professional engineer, either employee or consultant,
who shall be chosen by the Common Council to perform the duties of the designated
City Engineer for purposes of these regulations.
An acquired right of use on the property of another, for a specified
purpose on a designated part of that property.
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State of New
York.
A physical change to the land or installation of certain services
necessary to produce usable and desirable lots or sites from raw acreage,
including but not limited to water and sewer facilities, recreation and open
space areas, grading, pavement, curbs, gutters, storm sewers and drains and
betterments to existing watercourses, sidewalks and other pedestrianways,
street signs, shade trees, sodding or seeding and monuments, whether such
improvement is intended to be dedicated and maintained by the public or held
in private ownership.
A comprehensive plan for the general physical development of the
City of Amsterdam prepared pursuant General City Law.
The Planning Commission of the City of Amsterdam, Montgomery County,
New York.
The map of a subdivision showing the location, boundaries and proposed
ownership of individual properties and associated improvements.
The maps, drawings and other data showing the layout of a proposed subdivision, as specified in § 210-21 of these regulations, submitted to the Planning Commission for approval prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Commission of the layout and improvements within such proposed subdivision.
Any change in the plat of a subdivision which has previously been
filed in the office of the Montgomery County Clerk, which change affects any
street layout shown on such plat, affects any area reserved thereon for public
use or diminishes the size of any lot shown thereon.
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information required
by these regulations to enable the subdivider to save time and expense in
reaching general agreement with the Planning Commission as to the form of
the layout and the objectives of these regulations. A sketch plat shall be
drawn to scale but need not have the accuracy of an engineering drawing.
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway,
thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, artery, avenue, boulevard, lane,
place, drive or however otherwise designated which is an existing public way
or a way shown upon a subdivision plat approved by the City Planning Commission
as provided by these regulations or on a plat duly filed and recorded in the
office of the Montgomery County Clerk.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic,
i.e., the traveled way.
The width of the right-of-way or the distance between property lines
on opposite sides of a street, measured at right angles to the center line
of such street.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association which shall
lay out for the purpose of development, sale or lease any subdivision as defined
herein, either for himself, itself or for others.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, plots,
sites or other division of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future,
of transfer of ownership or building development. Such division shall include
resubdivision of parcels of land for which an approved plat has already been
filed in the office of the County Clerk and which is entirely or partially
undeveloped. For the purposes of these land subdivision regulations, a parcel
shall be considered already to have been divided into two or more lots by
one or more public streets or railroad or utility rights-of-way held in fee
simple.
MINOR SUBDIVISIONAny subdivision containing not more than four lots, each of at least the minimum lot area and dimension permitted by Chapter 250, Zoning, each fronting on an existing street, not involving any new street or road, whether intended to be private or public, or the extension of municipal facilities, not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining properties and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Master Plan, Chapter 250, Zoning, or these regulations.
MAJOR SUBDIVISIONAny 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 any extension of city facilities.
The final maps, drawings and charts on which the subdivider's
plan of subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and
by this chapter is presented to the Planning Commission for approval and which,
if approved, shall be submitted to the Montgomery County Clerk for filing
or recording in order to complete the subdivision approval process.
A person licensed as a professional land surveyor by the State of
New York.
