A. 
The Planning Board of the Town of Queensbury is hereby authorized and empowered, pursuant to this chapter and the enabling legislative authority of Article 16 of New York State Town Law, 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 final plats within the Town of Queensbury.
B. 
It is declared to be the policy of the Planning Board to consider land subdivision plats for residential, industrial and commercial uses as part of a plan for the orderly, efficient and economical development of the Town. 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 proper 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, shall be properly related to the proposals shown on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and shall be of such width, grade and location as to accommodate the prospective traffic, to facilitate to 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.
C. 
In order that land subdivisions may be made in accordance with this policy, these regulations, which shall be known as and which may be cited as the "Town of Queensbury Land Subdivision Regulations," have been duly enacted by the Town Board on March 5, 2010.
D. 
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to supersede, alter, enlarge or impair the jurisdiction of the Adirondack Park Agency, pursuant to the Adirondack Park Agency Act, to review and approve, approve subject to conditions and disapprove subdivisions of land defined therein as "Class A Regional Projects," or otherwise to supersede, alter or impair the statutory functions, duties and responsibilities of the Agency with regard to matters involving a Town in which an Agency-approved local land use program has been validly adopted or enacted, provided that the Adirondack Park Agency cannot, in the context of its Class A Regional Project review, override a local decision not to permit a given subdivision.
Whenever any subdivision of land is proposed to be made which is subject to review hereunder and before any land is cleared or vegetation removed, except vegetation removed in connection with required surveying, engineering tests and inspections, and before any permit for the erection of a structure in such proposed subdivision shall be granted, the subdivider shall make application for and receive final approval of such proposed subdivision in accordance with the Town of Queensbury Land Subdivision Regulations. No parcel of land may be subdivided which has been clear-cut within the previous five years.
Subdivision plats shall be coordinated so as to compose a convenient system conforming to the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. The lots shown on said plat shall comply with the requirements of the zoning district in which said subdivision is located, and the land shown on such plats 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.
Subdivisions shall also comply with the provisions of Town of Queensbury Stormwater Management Local Law, Code of the Town of Queensbury, Chapter 147.