For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
See "Master Plan."
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL
The approval of a final plat subject to conditions set forth by the Planning Board in its resolution conditionally approving the plat. Conditional approval does not qualify the final plat for recording. At the time of the resolution conditionally approving the plat, the Planning Board must empower a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board to sign the plat subject to completion of the requirements stated in the resolution. Upon completion of these requirements, the plat must be signed by the officer so designated. The subdivider has 180 days to satisfy the requirements upon which the approval has been conditioned and obtain the certification of the officer of the Planning Board. This period may be extended by the Planning Board, if in its opinion the circumstances warrant this, for up to two ninety-day periods beyond the initial 180 days.
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS PLAN
The working drawings and specifications for public improvements and utilities involved in the plan of subdivision.
DESIGN PROFESSIONAL
Architect, landscape architect, professional engineer or other person licensed by the State of New York to practice site planning and/or engineering. The design professional's responsibility shall be as defined by state law.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or entirely self-contained portion thereof, containing complete housekeeping facilities for only one family, including any domestic servants employed on the premises, and having no enclosed space (other than vestibules, entrance or other hallways or porches) or cooking or sanitary facilities in common with any other dwelling unit.
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 or licensed in a state with a reciprocal agreement with New York State.
FINAL PLAT
See "subdivision plat."
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
The signing of a final plat by a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board after a resolution granting final approval to 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 County Clerk or register, in the County in which such plat is located.
LANDSCAPED or LANDSCAPING
Open space development which includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: existing and cultivated elements arranged to produce an artful or otherwise desired effect, turf, meadow, rocks, watercourses or water bodies, trees, shrubs, flowers, walls, berms, swales, lanes, paths and other similar natural and man-made elements or forms.
LOT
A parcel or portion of land separated from other parcels or portions, for purpose of sale, lease or separate use by means of a description as indicated by a subdivision plat, a recorded map or deed or by metes and bounds or separated by a public street or railroad right-of-way.
MASTER PLAN
A comprehensive plan, prepared by the Planning Board, pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law, which indicates the general locations recommended for various functional classes of public works, places and structures and for general physical development of the municipality, and includes any unit or part of such plan separately prepared, and any amendment to such plan or parts therein.
MUNICIPAL ATTORNEY
The duly designated attorney of the Town of Greenville.
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the Town of Greenville.
MUNICIPAL LEGISLATURE
The Town Board of the Town of Greenville.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Municipal Legislature pursuant to § 270 of the Town Law, showing streets, highways, parks and drainage, both existing and proposed.
OFFICIAL SUBMITTAL DATE
The date on which a subdivision plat is considered officially submitted to the Planning Board, pursuant to § 276 of the Town Law, and hereby defined as the date Planning Board receives the formal subdivision plat in proper form as provided for in Article VII of these regulations.
PARENT PARCEL
Any parcel of land owned individually and separately and separated in ownership from any adjoining tracts of land on the effective date of these regulations, which has a total area which exceeds the minimum requirements of Chapter 205, Zoning, and for which there exists the legal possibility of subdivision or resubdivision.
PERFORMANCE BOND
A security which may be accepted by the municipality in lieu of a requirement that certain improvements be made before the Planning Board gives final approval to a subdivision plat. Such security shall be sufficient to cover the full cost of all uncompleted improvements in the subdivision as estimated by the Planning Board or agency designated by the Municipal Legislature. Securities shall include such collateral or agreements acceptable to the Municipal Legislature or a bond issued by a surety company to run for a term not to exceed three years; provided, however, that the term may be extended by the Municipal Legislature with the consent of the parties thereto.
PLANNING BOARD or BOARD
The Planning Board of the municipality.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing prepared in a manner prescribed by local regulation, showing the salient features of the layout of a proposed subdivision submitted to the Planning Board for purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form, including but not restricted to road and lot layout and approximate dimensions, key plan, topography and drainage, all proposed facilities unsized, including preliminary plans and profiles, at suitable scale and in such detail as local regulation may require.
PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL
The approval of the layout of proposed subdivision as set forth in a preliminary plat, but subject to approval of the plat in final form in accordance with the provisions of §§ 181-10, 181-11 and 181-12.
RESERVE STRIP
A privately owned strip of land of less width than the lot depth permitted by the applicable regulations, bounded on one side by a proposed street and on the other by the boundary of a subdivision containing said proposed street.
RESUBDIVISION
A change of an approved or recorded subdivision plat, if such change affects any street layout shown on such plat, or area reserved thereon for public use or any change of a lot line or if it affects any map or plan legally recorded prior to the adoption of any regulations controlling subdivisions.
ROAD SPECIFICATIONS
The minimum acceptable standards of street construction for proposed municipal roads within subdivisions, as promulgated by these regulations.
SITE
The total land of any owner, whether part or all of such owner's land is submitted for plat approval.
SKETCH PLAN
A first draft of a proposed subdivision showing the information specified in § 181-60 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.
STREET
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however else designated. The term "street" includes the land between the street right-of-way lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, planted strips, parking areas and other areas within such street lines.
STREET, COLLECTOR
Those streets which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of large residential developments.
STREET, DEAD-END or CUL-DE-SAC
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
STREET, MAJOR OR ARTERIAL
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 for other heavy traffic between communities and/or other heavy traffic-generating areas.
STREET, MARGINAL
Those streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET, MINOR OR LOCAL
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY
The full width of a publicly-maintained traveled way, whether acquired through dedication or by use. It may include pavement, shoulders, ditches or gutters, culverts or sluiceways. It may be defined in metes and bounds and be filed with the proper authorities, or it may have been used and maintained by the public for a period of 10 years or more.
STREET, TAP or STUB STREET
A street designed to provide a connection to possible future development outside the subdivision so that continuity of traffic circulation can be maintained.
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 herein, 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. 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 subdivision regulations, a parcel shall be considered already to have been subdivided into two or more lots if bisected by one or more public streets or railroad rights-of-way.
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR
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.
SUBDIVISION, MINOR
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, if such exists, Chapter 205, Zoning, or these regulations.
SUBDIVISION, OPEN-DEVELOPMENT AREA
A subdivision containing not more than four lots, without frontage on an existing street and not requiring any new municipal street, street extension or extension of municipal facilities.
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
A drawing in final form, prepared in a manner prescribed by local regulation, showing a proposed subdivision, containing in such additional detail as shall be provided by local regulation or any other applicable state law or local law, ordinance, rule, regulation or resolution all information required to appear on a preliminary plat and the modifications if any, required by the Planning Board at the time of approval of a preliminary plat of such proposed subdivision if such preliminary plat has been so approved.
SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGHWAYS
The Highway Superintendent or Commissioner of Public Works of the Town of Greenville.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
TAX RECORDS
A file copy of the Official Tax Map sections, showing the configuration of parcels as of the effective date of these regulations, and a data-processing computer printout of the real property description cards, showing the ownership of parcels at the effective date of these regulations, both on file in the office of the Building Inspector.
TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN
See "Master Plan."
UNIT, DWELLING
See "dwelling unit."
WALKWAY
A street, right-of-way, easement, sidewalk or other land reserved exclusively for pedestrians, bicycles, equestrians and other nonmotorized circulation.
ZONING ORDINANCE
Chapter 205, Zoning, of the Town of Greenville.