[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
By the authority of the resolution of the Village
Board of the Village of Angola, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 7-728
through 7-740 of the Village Law, the Zoning Board of Appeals of the
Village of Angola is authorized and empowered to approve plats showing
lots, blocks, or sites, with or without streets or highways, to approve
the development of entirely or partially undeveloped plats already
filed in the office of the Clerk of the County and to conditionally
approve preliminary plats within the Village of Angola. It is declared
to be the policy of the Village to consider land subdivision plats
as part of a plan for the orderly, efficient and economical development
of the Village. This means, among other things, that land to be subdivided
shall be of such character that it can be used safely for building
purposes without danger to health or peril from fire, flood or other
menace; that provision shall be made for drainage, water supply, sewerage
and other needed improvements; that all proposed lots shall be so
laid out and of such size as to be in harmony with the development
pattern of the neighboring properties; that the proposed streets shall
compose a convenient system conforming to the Official Map, if such
exists, and shall be properly related to the proposals shown on the
Master Plan, if such exists, and shall be of such width, grade and
location as to accommodate the prospective traffic, to facilitate
fire protection and to provide access of fire-fighting equipment to
buildings; and that proper provision shall be made for open spaces
for parks and playgrounds. In order that land subdivision may be made
in accordance with this policy, this chapter, which shall be known
as and which may be cited as the "Village of Angola Land Subdivision
Regulations," is hereby enacted.
As used in this chapter, unless the context
or subject matter otherwise requires, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the Village, prepared by the Zoning Board
of Appeals pursuant to § 7-722 of the Village Law, which
indicates the general locations recommended for various public works
and reservations and for the general physical development of the Village,
and includes any part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment
to such plan or parts thereof.
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers
or drainage ditches or required along a natural stream or watercourse
for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein
to safeguard the public against flood damage.
The lands created through authorization by a property owner
for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated
part of his property.
The duly designated Engineer of the Village of Angola.
A piece, parcel, or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer
of ownership or for development.
The map, established by the Village Board under § 7-724
of the Village Law, showing the streets, highways, and parks heretofore
laid out, adopted, and established by law, and any amendments thereto
adopted by the Village Board or additions thereto resulting from the
approval of subdivision plats by the Zoning Board of Appeals and the
subsequent filing of such approved plats.
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
The date when a subdivision plat shall be considered submitted to the Zoning Board of Appeals, hereby defined to be the date of a meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals at which all required surveys, plans, and data described in Article V are submitted.
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
Any security which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement
that certain improvements be made before the Zoning Board of Appeals
approves a plat, including performance bonds, escrow agreements, and
other similar collateral or surety agreements.
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision, to be submitted to the Zoning Board of Appeals for its consideration and meeting the requirements of Article V of this chapter.
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
Redivision of all or part of an existing filed plat, including
consolidation of lots.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley,
or other way which is an existing State, County, or Town roadway or
way shown upon a plat theretofore approved pursuant to law or approved
by official action or a street or way on a plat duly filed and recorded
in the office of the County Clerk of Erie County prior to the appointment
of a Zoning Board of Appeals and the grant to such Board of the power
to review plats, and includes the land between the street lines, whether
improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters,
sidewalks, parking area, and other areas within the street lines.
For the purpose of this chapter, streets shall be classified as follows:
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
Arterial streets are those which do or are intended
to carry heavy traffic.
Collector streets are those which carry traffic
from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets.
Minor streets or local residential streets are
those which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
Marginal-service streets are streets which are
parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which
provide access to abutting properties and protection from through
traffic.
Alleys are minor ways which are used primarily
for vehicular service to the back or the side of properties otherwise
abutting on a street.
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
The distance between property lines or right-of-way lines.
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association
who shall lay out, for the purpose of sale or development, any subdivision
or part thereof, as defined herein, either for himself or others.
The division of any parcel of land into two or more lots,
plots, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building development,
and shall include resubdivision; provided, however, that the public
acquisition by purchase of a strip of land for the widening or opening
of streets shall not be included within this definition nor subject
to this chapter.
[Amended by L.L. No. 6-1978; 12-10-2018 by L.L. No. 7-2018]
A major subdivision is 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.
A minor subdivision is any subdivision containing not more than four lots front on an existing street, not involving any new street or road or the extension of municipal facilities, 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 Comprehensive Plan, the Official Map, Chapter 245, Zoning, or this chapter.
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision,
containing all information or detail required by law and by this chapter
to be presented to the Zoning Board of Appeals for approval and which,
if approved, may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant in the
office of the Erie County Clerk.
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
The Village of Angola Zoning Board of Appeals, as established
pursuant to the provisions of § 7-718 of the Village Law.
[Amended 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
The officially adopted Zoning Law of the Village of Angola,
together with any and all amendments thereto.[1]
