For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or designed to serve as a trafficway for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
DEAD-END STREET OR CUL-DE-SAC
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose of any designated part of his property.
ENGINEER OR LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State of New York.
MAJOR STREET
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.
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.
MASTER OR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan, prepared by the Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law, which indicates the general locations recommended for various functional classes or 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 to such plan or parts therein.
[Amended 2-25-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
MINOR STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
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 and not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the Master Plan, Official Map, Chapter 165, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Coeymans, or these regulations.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Town Board pursuant to § 270 of the Town Law, showing streets, highways and parks and drainage both existing and proposed.
Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals OR BOARD
The Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town.
[Amended 2-25-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings clearly marked "preliminary plat" showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in Article V, 145-26, of these regulations, submitted to the Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals of the town for purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
[Amended 2-25-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
SKETCH PLAN
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in Article V, § 145-24, of these regulations to enable the subdivider to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals as to the form of the layout and objectives of these regulations.
[Amended 2-25-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
STREET
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes or other trafficways, between right-of-way lines.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The width of 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, either for himself or others.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, and includes resubdivision.
SUBDIVISION PLAT OR FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by the law and by these regulations to be presented to the Planning Board/Zoning Board of Appeals for approval, and which if approved, may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant in the office of the County Clerk or Register.
[Amended 2-25-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the town.