Subdivision Regulations - Articles VI and VII

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(Note: This online version of the Town of Chester Subdivision Regulations is for informational purposes only and may not be the most up to date version available. Please ask at the Town Hall for an Official Version.)

 ARTICLE VI-WAIVERS

Section 6.01 WAIVER

The Planning Board may waive when reasonable, any requirements or improvements for the approval, approval with modifications or disapproval of subdivisions submitted for its approval. Any such waiver, which shall be subject to appropriate conditions, may be exercised in the event any such requirements or improvements are found not to be requisite in the interest of the public health, safety, and general welfare or inappropriate because of inadequacy or lack of connecting facilities adjacent or in proximity to the subdivision.

Section 6.02 Conditions

In granting waivers, the Planning Board shall impose such conditions as will substantially assume that the objectives of the standards or requirements so waived are met.


ARTICLE VII- SEPARABILITY

Section 7.01 Separability

Should any section or provision of the regulations contained herein or as amended hereafter be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the regulations as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid.