CHAPTER II _ DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of these Regulations, certain terms and words used herein shall be used, interpreted and defined as set forth in this Section:
1. Amended Subdivision: Any change in a property line or improvement shown on a Subdivision or Resubdivision map which has been approved and filed with the Town Clerk pursuant to these Regulations, other than a new subdivision or a resubdivision.
2. Applicant: Any person, firm, corporation, or partnership who shall apply to the Commission for approval of a subdivision, as herein_ after defined, either for himself or as an agent for others.
3. Application: A request for approval of a specific subdivision, including an application form as may be prescribed by the Commission, accompanied by all supporting information, documents, reports, and the like which may be required by these Regulations. (See Appendix 1A, Subdivision Application Form; and Appendix 1, Subdivision Regulations Compliance Form.)
4. Board of Selectmen: The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Willington.
5. Commission: The Planning and Zoning Commission of the Town of Willington.
6. Cul_de_sac: A proposed street, or any extension of an existing street, or any combination or pattern of streets or extensions thereof, having only one outlet to a through State or Town road.
7. Date of Receipt: The day of the first regularly scheduled meeting of the Commission immediately following the day of submission of the Application to the Commission, or its agent, or thirty_five (35) days after such submission, whichever is sooner.
8. Disturbed Area: An area where the natural vegetative ground cover is destroyed, moved or removed.
9. "Development for Agricultural Purposes": Development exclusively for use as "agricultural land", as that term is defined in Connecticut General Statutes Section 22_26bb. (See definition of "Subdivision").
10. Development Plan: The Plan of Development of the Town of Willington, as it may be adopted and amended from time to time, in accordance with Chapter 126 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended.
11. Drainage Easement: The right, at any time, to direct the flow of water, whether derived from surface or subsurface sources, across any property owned or proposed to be owned by another. Said right is defined to include direction of the flow of water by any method or means, including but not limited to, unrestricted sheet flows, direction by open ditch or trench, or direction by enclosed conduits. Said right also includes the right to enter upon the property and to maintain said direction of the flow of water in perpetuity.
12. Easement: A right, established in deed or other legal means, of one party to use a designated portion of a second party's land for a specific, limited purpose.
13. Engineer or Town Engineer: The Engineer of the Town of Willington acting personally or through any assistants authorized in writing for such acts by the Engineer.
14. Erosion: The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by water, wind, ice or gravity.
15. Final Subdivision Plan: The final map, drawings, and all supporting data required by these Regulations upon which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented to the Commission for action and which, if approved without modifications, would be submitted to the Town Clerk for recording.
16. Improvement: Any change or alteration to the existing condi_ tions of the subdivision site for the purpose of complying with these Regulations, or any approval granted hereunder, or rendering the site more suitable for development and/or habitation. As used in these Regulations, Improvements include but are not limited to: Construction and installation of roadways, paved streets, curbs, gutters, utilities, street signs, monuments, shade trees, drainage facilities, erosion and sedimentation control measures, buildings, earth filling or removal, seeding and grading.
17. Inland Wetlands Agency: The Willington Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission, being the agency designated pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes Section~22a_42(c).
18. Half Street: A proposed street, or any extension of an existing street, along and roughly parallel to a property line such that less than the entire required right_of_way and street improvements, longitudinally, would be located on one property.
19. Loop Street: A proposed cul_de_sac, or any extension of an existing cul_de_sac, that curves back to intersect with itself.
20. Lot: The unit or units into which land is divided or proposed to be divided with the intention of offering such units for sale, lease or other conveyance, either as developed or undeveloped sites.
21. Plan and Profile: The drawing(s) depicting respectively the horizontal and vertical design for street construction and drainage, and containing all information required by Chapter IV, Section 3 of these Regulations.
22. Preliminary Layout: The preliminary drawing(s) and all required supporting data as required by Chapter IV, Section 1 of these Regulations, indicating the proposed manner and layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Commission for consideration.
23. Print: A blueprint, photostat, lithoprint, or other copy which reproduces exactly the data on the original drawing(s) from which it is made.
24. Reserve Strip: Land controlling public access to an area dedicated or to be dedicated to public use, including streets, street connections, pedestrian ways, parks, or other land dedicated to public use.
25. Resubdivision: A change in 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 of recording of such map.
26. Sediment: Solid material, either mineral or organic, that is in suspension, and is transported, or has been moved from, its site of origin.
27. Standard Specifications and Details: The Standard Specifications and Details for construction and materials dated May, 1975, as the same may have been amended by the Commission from time to time, and which are made a part of these Regulations.
28. Street: A street, avenue, lane, or any right_of_way: (a) dedicated and legally accepted by the Town or the State of Connecticut for the purpose of public travel; OR (b) shown on a subdivision duly approved by the Commission and complying with all requirements of these Regulations, recorded in the Office of the Town Clerk, and bonded or constructed in accordance with these Regulations.
29. Street Line: That line separating the public right_of_way of a Street from adjoining properties.
30. Street Pavement: The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
31. Street Width: The distance between Street Lines.
32. Subdivider: See, "Applicant".
33. Subdivision: The division of a tract or parcel of land into three (3) or more parts or lots for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development expressly excluding development for municipal, conservation, or agricultural purposes, and includes resubdivision.
34. These Regulations: The Subdivision Regulations of the Town of Willington, including amendments thereto.
35. Town: The Town of Willington, County of Tolland, Connecticut.
36. Traveled Width: The distance between curb faces, i.e., the width of the Street Pavement.
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