ARTICLE I, General Provisions

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ARTICLE I, General Provisions

§ 205-1. Authority granted to Planning Board.

By authority of the resolution duly adopted by the Village Board on December 1, 1954, pursuant to the provisions of Village Law § 7-728, the Village Board authorized and empowered the Planning Board of the Village of Ilion to:

A) Approve or disapprove:

1. Changes in the lines of existing streets, highways or public areas shown on subdivision plats or maps filed in the County Clerk's office.

2. The laying out, closing off or abandonment of such streets, highways or public areas under and subject to the provisions of the village planning laws.

3. All plats showing lots, blocks or sites with or without streets or highways.

B) Pass and approve the development of plats already filed in the County Clerk's office if such plats are entirely or partially undeveloped.

C) Control subdivisions.

§ 205-2. Purpose.

These regulations are enacted for the following purposes and for such other or further purposes as may be authorized by law:

A) To provide for the future growth and development of the village.

B) To afford adequate facilities for housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare.

C) To show, in proper cases, a park or parks suitably located for playground or other recreational purposes.

D) To require that the streets and highways shall be of sufficient width and suitable grade and shall be suitably located to accommodate the prospective traffic, to afford adequate light and air, to facilitate fire protection and to provide access of fire-fighting equipment to buildings.

E) To assure that the subdivision streets and highways shall be coordinated so as to compose a convenient system conforming to the Official Map and properly related to the Master Plan and Zoning Ordinance.

F) To find that 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 flood, fire or other menace.

§ 205-3. Title; definitions.

For the purpose of these regulations, which shall be known as and may be cited as the "Village of Ilion Subdivision Regulations," certain words used herein are defined as follows:

BOARD -- The duly appointed Planning Board of the Village of Ilion.

FINAL PLAT -- The final map or drawing on which the plan of subdivision is presented to the Board for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the County Clerk for filing.

MASTER PLAN -- A comprehensive plan prepared for and by the Board pursuant to § 7-728 of the Village Law, which plan indicates the general locations recommended for the various public works, places and structures and for the general physical development of the Village of Ilion and includes any unit or part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.

OFFICIAL MAP -- The map established by the Village of Ilion pursuant to § 7-728 of the Village Law, showing the streets, highways and parks theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law and any amendments thereto adopted by the Village of Ilion or additions thereto resulting from the approval of subdivision plats by the Board and the subsequent filing of such approved plats. Streets not accepted by the Village of Ilion as public streets may be shown thereon but shall be marked as private streets.

PRELIMINARY LAYOUT -- The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision and width of proposed streets to be submitted to the Board for its consideration.

STREET -- A public or private way for vehicular traffic.

A) ARTERIAL STREETS AND HIGHWAYS -- Those which are used primarily for traffic with limited access.

B) MAJOR STREETS -- Those which carry traffic from minor streets to the business and industrial districts.

C) MINOR STREETS -- Those which are used primarily for access to abutting residential properties. A "cul-de-sac" is a minor street with only one (1) outlet and having a turning loop or wye at the closed end.

D) FRONTAGE ROADS -- Those generally parallel with and adjacent to arterial streets and highways, which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.

E) ALLEYS -- Minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

SUBDIVISION -- The division of any parcel of land into two (2) 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, in whole or in part, of any plat, filed or unfiled, which is entirely or partially undeveloped.