The purposes of subdivision regulations, as
stated in § 276 of the Town Law, are as follows: "for the
purpose of providing for the growth and development of the Town and
affording adequate facilities for the housing, transportation, distribution,
comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare of its population."
The further purposes of this chapter are to establish and promulgate
standard procedures for the review and processing, approval and recording
of subdivisions; standards for the design of blocks, lots, streets
and drainageways, together with requirements for providing monuments,
signs and other improvements required in subdivisions; and standard
procedures for assuring the complete and orderly installation of improvements
required by the Town in new subdivisions, all in order that the Planning
Board, in exercising its responsibility of subdivision control, may
function in an efficient, expeditious, thorough and impartial manner
in order that prospective subdividers of land and their professional
and technical associates may be informed of Town requirements in preparing
and submitting plats and planning and installation of improvements.