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CITY OF NORWALK PLANNING COMMISSION
SUBDIVISION AND RESUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of these Subdivision Regulations, certain words are defined as follows:
Sec. 1.01 COMMISSION means the Planning Commission
Sec. 1.02 COUNCIL means the Common Council of the City of Norwalk, CT
Sec. 1.03 SUBDIVISION [Amended 9/8/98] means the division of a tract or parcel of land into three or more parts or lots made subsequent to the adoption of subdivision regulations by the commission, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development expressly excluding development for municipal, conservation or agricultural purposes, and includes resubdivision.
Sec 1.04 RESUBDIVISION means a change in a map of an approved or recorded subdivision or resubdivision if such change (a) affects any street layout shown on such map, (b) affects any area reserved thereon for public use or (c) diminishes the size of any lot shown thereon and creates an additional building lot, if any of the lots shown thereon have been conveyed after the approval or recording of such map.
Sec. 1.05 PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT [Amended 9/8/98] means the Plan of Development as prepared by the Commission and adopted by the Common Council on January 22, 1991 and by the Mayor on February 12, 1991 as amended.
Sec. 1.06 COMMITTEE means the Subdivision Committee of the Commission.
Sec. 1.07 FILING DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: [Amended 9/8/98] shall be deemed the monthly deadline date for acceptance of a subdivision or resubdivision application in the office of the Commission.
Sec. 1.08 OFFICIAL SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION: [Amended 9/8/98] The receipt of an application, request or appeal shall be the day of the next regularly scheduled meeting of such commission or board, immediately following the day of submission to such board or commission or its agent of such application, request or appeal or thirty-five days after such submission, whichever is sooner.
Sec. 1.09 STREET means street, avenue, boulevard, highway, road, roadway, lane, alley, viaduct, court, place or other ways.
(a) DEAD-END STREET means a street not intersecting with another street at both ends.
(b) ACCESS WAY means a private right-of-way for vehicular traffic serving not more than one rear lot.
(c) RIGHT-OF-WAY-WIDTH means the distance between property lines reserved for vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
(d) TRAVELED WAY means the paved surface of the roadway or access way used by vehicular traffic.
(e) CUL-DE-SAC STREET is a dead-end street with a circular turnaround at one end.
Sec. 1.10 CITY DATUM means the Connecticut Geodetic Survey (CGS) Mean Sea Level Datum.
Sec. 1.11 DEVELOPER means the person, persons, corporation, partnership or firm proposing a subdivision or resubdivision.
Sec. 1.12 EARTH DISTURBING ACTIVITY [Amended 8/15/79, 9/8/98] means any activity where the ground cover is destroyed or removed leaving the land subject to accelerated erosion and sedimentation.
Sec. 1.13 EROSION AND SEDIMENTATION CONTROL HANDBOOK [Amended 8/15/79] means the publication prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, Storrs, Connecticut, 1976 including any modification, supplement or revision thereof.
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