It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Town of Tully that the subdivision and development of land for residential, commercial, and industrial purposes shall be guided and regulated in such a manner as to meet the following requirements for orderly and harmonious growth:
A. 
Land to be subdivided or developed shall be of such character that it can be used safely without danger to health or peril from fire, flood, erosion, excessive noise or smoke, or other menace.
B. 
Proper provisions shall be made for drainage, water, supply, sewerage, and other appropriate utility services.
C. 
The proposed streets shall provide a safe, convenient, and functional system for vehicular circulation and shall be properly related to the Master Plan of the area.
D. 
Streets shall be of such width, grade and location as to accommodate prospective traffic as determined by existing and probable future land and building uses.
E. 
Buildings, lots, blocks, and streets shall be so arranged as to afford adequate light, view and air, to facilitate fire protection and to provide ample access for fire-fighting equipment to buildings.
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Land shall be subdivided or developed with due regard to topography so that the natural beauty of the land and vegetation shall be protected and enhanced.
G. 
Adequate sites for schools, parks, playgrounds and other community services shall be located so that residents of all neighborhoods shall have convenient access to such facilities.
For the purpose of these regulations, certain words used herein are defined as follows:
PLANNING BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town of Tully.
PLANS AND PLATS
A. 
SKETCH PLANAn informal plan, not necessarily to exact scale indicating salient existing features of a tract and its surroundings and the general layout of a proposed subdivision.
B. 
PRELIMINARY PLANA tentative subdivision plan, in greater detail than the sketch plan, indicating the approximate proposed layout of a subdivision as a basis for study and consideration prior to preparation of the final plat. (For the purpose of the public hearing required in § 276 of the Town Law, the preliminary plan shall be regarded as the plan on which the hearing shall be held.)
C. 
PLATA map or drawing correct as to scale and location.
D. 
FINAL PLATThe final map or drawing on which the exact subdivision plan is presented for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the County Clerk for recording.
STREETS
A public way for vehicular traffic whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive, place, or other similar designation. The following functional classification is used in these regulations:
A. 
ARTERIAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic usually with complete or partial control over access from abutting property.
B. 
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to major system of arterial streets and highways.
C. 
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
D. 
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSMinor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
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CUL-DE-SAC STREETSMinor streets with one end open for public vehicle and pedestrian access and the other end terminating in a vehicular turnaround. The length of a cul-de-sac street shall be measured along the center line from its intersection with the center line of the street from which it runs to the center of the cul-de-sac turnaround.
F. 
SERVICE DRIVESMinor private ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
SUBDIVISION
The act of dividing a parcel of land on any existing public street into five or more lots for residential purposes which subdivision does not involve the creation of a new street or highway, provided that in any such division adequate space shall be left unsold for any suitable streets which may be necessary in order to obtain access to lands in the rear of said new lots. Furthermore, a subdivision includes a division of any part, parcel or area of land not on any existing public street by the owner or agent either by lots or by metes and bounds into lots or parcels of land, two or more in number, for the purpose of conveyance, transfer, improvement, building development or sale. A subdivision shall not include, however, the division of land for agricultural purposes into two or more lots each five acres or more in area, and which does not involve the creation of a new street or highway. The term "subdivision" includes "resubdivision."