§ 240-42. Planning Board standards/certain subdivisions.

The Planning Board, as part of its review of subdivisions within 500 feet of the major arteries known as Routes 28, 132, 149 and West Main Street, is hereby authorized to:

A. 

Prescribe, in distance and composition, a vegetation buffer strip between said major arteries and a proposed subdivision.

B. 

Locate streets within a proposed subdivision so that:

(1) 

Ingress and egress onto the aforementioned major arteries is safe, efficient and convenient;

(2) 

A minimum number of roads intersect any such artery. Roads intersecting a major artery on the same side of the artery should, if possible, be not less than 500 feet apart between side lines. Roads intersecting a major artery on the opposite sides of such an artery should, if possible, be not less than 150 feet between center lines.