By authority of the Town Board of the Town of
Harrison, pursuant to the provisions of § 276 of Article
13 of the Town Law, the Town of Harrison Planning Board is hereby
authorized and empowered to approve plats for subdivisions, with or
without new streets or highways, and to pass and approve the development
of plats already filed.
These regulations are established to require
that every person or corporation who as owner or agent subdivides
real property into lots, plots, blocks or sites, with or without streets,
for the purpose of offering such lots, plots, blocks or sites for
sale to the public, regardless of how they are conveyed or for what
kind of land use they are intended, file in the office of the County
Clerk a map thereof. Every such subdivision map of property in the
Town of Harrison before the filing thereof shall have endorsed, in
writing, on its face the approval of the Town of Harrison Planning
Board.
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
municipality and to assure the comfort, convenience, safety, health
and welfare of its people, and further, that the approval of such
subdivision shall be based on the following considerations:
B.
Recognition of a desirable relationship to the general
land form, its topographic and geologic character, to natural drainage
and ecological concerns.
C.
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.
D.
Encouragement of flexible subdivision design to promote
the planning objectives of the Master Plan, to realize development
and maintenance economies and to provide for a variety of housing
types.
E.
Provision of such facilities as are desirable adjuncts
to the contemplated use, such as parks, recreation areas, school sites,
firehouses and off-street parking.
F.
Preservation of such natural resources and assets
as lakes, ponds, streams, marshes, flora, fauna, general scenic beauty
and historic features of the municipality.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Approval of the 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 nor authorize issuance of building permits prior to the
signing of the plat by a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board
and recording of the plat in the office of the County Clerk.
A short dead-end street terminating in a vehicular turnaround
area.
A restriction established in a real estate deed or other
recordable document to permit the use of private land by a public
agency or a public utility for specified purposes or to protect some
special quality of the private land for specified purposes.
A restriction established in a real estate deed or other
recordable document to control access from private land to public
streets or other public areas.
The signing of a final plat by a duly 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 County Clerk.
A person licensed as a professional engineer or licensed
as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
The unit or units into which land is divided with the intention
of offering such units for sale, either as undeveloped or developed
sites, regardless of how they are conveyed. "Lot" shall mean parcel,
plot, site or any similar term.
A Comprehensive Plan adopted by the Planning Board for the
future growth, protection and development of the municipality, affording
adequate facilities for housing, transportation, comfort, convenience,
public health, safety and general welfare of its population.
For the purpose of receiving applications and keeping records,
the Municipal Engineer shall be the "Office of the Planning Board."
The duly appointed Planning Board of the municipality.
FINAL PLATA drawing, ink on linen or Mylar, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing such additional detail as required by these regulations for a preliminary plat and the modifications, if any, required by the Planning Board at the time of approval of the preliminary plat, if such preliminary plat has been so approved.
PRELIMINARY PLATA drawing clearly marked "PRELIMINARY PLAT," prepared in a manner prescribed by these regulations, showing the layout of a proposed subdivision, including but not restricted to road and lot layout, lot size and area and approximate dimensions, key plan, topography and drainage, all proposed facilities, including preliminary plans and profiles, at a scale and detail prescribed by these regulations.
A sketch of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in § 204-10 of these regulations to enable the subdivider to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Planning Board as to the form of the layout and objectives of these regulations.
COLLECTOR STREETA street, generally serving several subdivisions or a comparable low-density area, designed to have considerable continuity and to accommodate low to moderate speeds and low to medium traffic volumes and intended to channel traffic from local streets to highways.
EXPRESSWAY or THOROUGHFAREA highway, usually under the jurisdiction of the county or state, designed to have extensive continuity and to accommodate moderate to high speeds and moderate to heavy traffic volumes and intended to connect important centers of development or through traffic.
LOCAL STREETA street, usually within a subdivision, designed to have limited continuity and to accommodate low speeds and very low traffic volumes and intended solely to provide access to abutting properties within a limited area.
MARGINAL ROADA street, within a subdivision, located on a separate right-of-way parallel and adjacent to a highway designed to provide access to abutting properties without interrupting highway traffic except at widely spaced access points.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association
who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof, as defined herein,
either for himself or others in which latter case their names shall
also appear on the application for subdivision.
MAJOR SUBDIVISIONA division of land into two or more lots for immediate or future sales or for building development in such a way as to require one or more new streets to be constructed, or a division of land into five or more lots along an existing street or highway.
MINOR SUBDIVISIONA division of land into fewer than five lots along an existing public road in such a way as to require no new streets to be constructed.
The Town of Harrison Zoning Ordinance of 1974 (recodified
in 1986) and all amendments thereto.[2]
[Added 1-8-1992]
