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Section I
SECTION I - TITLE, AUTHORITY, PURPOSE, AND VALIDITY
A. TITLE
These regulations shall be known as the Town of Nottingham Subdivision Regulations.
B. AUTHORITY
In accordance with the RSA's listed below, any section of the Subdivision Rules and Regulations may be waived upon written application to the Planning Board. These regulations are revised and adopted by the Nottingham Planning Board pursuant to the authority granted by New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated 1983, Chapter 674, Sections 35 to 50 inclusive, Chapters 675, Sections 6 through 9 inclusive, and Chapter 676, Sections 4 and 16.
C. PURPOSE
The purpose of the regulations is to provide:
1.Against such scattered or premature subdivisions of land as would involve danger or injury to health, safety, or prosperity by reason of the lack of water supply, drainage, erosion control, transportation, schools, fire protection, traffic safety, or other public services, or necessitate the excessive expenditure of public funds for the supply of such services.
2.For the harmonious development of the Town and its environs.
3.A requirement for proper arrangement and coordination of streets within subdivisions in relation to other existing or planned streets, or with features of the official map of Nottingham.
4.For open spaces of adequate proportions.
5.A requirement for suitably located streets of sufficient width to accommodate existing and prospective traffic, and to afford adequate light, air, and access for the fire-fighting apparatus and equipment to buildings, and be coordinated so as to compose a convenient system.
6.A requirement, in proper cases, that plats showing new streets or narrowing or widening of such streets submitted to the Planning Board for approval, shall show a park or parks suitably located for playground, wetlands protection, suitable erosion and sediment control measures, or other recreational uses.
7.A requirement that proposed parks shall be of reasonable size for neighborhood playgrounds or other recreational purposes.
8.A requirement that the land indicated in the plats submitted to the Planning Board shall be of such character that it can be used for building purposes without danger to health (including air and noise pollution) and to the environment.
9.Minimum area of lots so as to assure conformance with local zoning ordinances and to assure such additional areas as may be needed for each lot for on-site sanitary facilities.
10.Provisions which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience, or prosperity, commensurate with the subdivision's geographical location and size.
11.Stipulations, as a condition precedent to the approval of a plat,the extent to which and the manner in which streets shall be graded and improved, and to which water, sewer, drainage, and other utility mains, piping, connections, or other facilities shall be installed.
D.REPEALER
All regulations inconsistent with these regulations are hereby repealed.
E.VALIDITY
If any article, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of these regulations shall for any reason be found null and void, such finding shall apply only to such article, section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase.
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