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<br /> OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF CITIES, ETC. 41 § 81Q
<br /> hundred and sixty, other than an easement appurtenant to a lot abutting the turnaround,
<br /> shall terminate upon the approval and recording of a pian showing extension of said way,
<br /> except in such portion of said turnaround as is included in said extension, and the
<br /> recording of a certificate by the planning board of the construction of such extension.
<br /> Such rules and regulations may set forth a requirement that underground distribution
<br /> systems be provided for any and all utility services, including electrical and telephone
<br /> services, as may be specified in such rules and regulations, and may set forth a
<br /> requirement that poles and any associated overhead structures, of a design approved by r
<br /> the planning board, be provided for use for police and fire alarm boxes and any similar
<br /> municipal equipment and for use for street lighting. The rules and regulations may
<br /> encourage the use of solar energy systems and protect to the extent feasible the access to
<br /> direct sunlight of solar energy systems. Such rules and regulations may include
<br /> standards for the orientation of new streets, lots and buildings; building set back
<br /> requirements from property fines; limitations on the type, height and placement, of
<br /> vegetation; and restrictive covenants protecting solar access not inconsistent with exist-
<br /> ing local ordinances or by-laws. Except in so far as it may require compliance with the
<br /> requirements of existing zoning ordinances or by-laws, no rule or regulation shall relate
<br /> to the size, shape, width, frontage or use of lots within a subdivision, or to the buildings
<br /> which may be constructed thereon, or shall be inconsistent with the regulations and
<br /> requirements of any other municipal board acting within its jurisdiction. No rule or .
<br /> regulation shall require, and no planning board shall impose, as a condition for the
<br /> approval of a plan of a subdivision, that any of the land within said subdivision be
<br /> dedicated to the public use, or conveyed or released to the commonwealth or to the
<br /> county, city or town in which the subdivision is located, for use as a public way, public F :
<br /> park or playground, or for any other public purpose, without just compensation to the j
<br /> owner thereof. The rules and regulations may, however, provide that not more than one
<br /> building designed or available for use for dwelling purposes shall be erected or placed or
<br /> converted to use as such on any lot in a subdivision, or elsewhere in the city or town,
<br /> without the consent of the planning board,and that such consent may be conditional upon !
<br /> the providing of adequate ways furnishing access to each site for such building, in the
<br /> same manner as otherwise required for lots within a subdivision. A true copy of the rules
<br /> and regulations, with their most recent amendments, shall be kept on file available for
<br /> inspection in the office of the planning board of the city or town by which they were ;
<br /> adopted,and in the office of the clerk of such city or town. A conn certified by such clerk
<br /> of any such rules and regulations, or any amendment thereof, adopted afterthe =test day
<br /> or anuary, nineteen hundred and tir -four snail e transmitted forthwith by suchi
<br /> planning oara to the register of deeds and recorder of a land court, and no nue or
<br /> regulation, or amendment thereor, adopted therearter. under t= section sna a efree-
<br /> e until certined conies thereoi have een so transmiOnce a definitive plan hasbee � y
<br /> a submitted to a planning board, and written notice has been given to the city or town
<br /> clerk pursuant to section eighty-one T and until final action has been taken thereon by the
<br /> planning board or the time for such action prescribed by section eighty-one U has elapsed, jam'
<br /> the rules and regulations governing such plan shall be those in effect relative to
<br /> subdivision control at the time of the submission of such plan. When a preliminary plan
<br /> referred to in section eighty-one S has been submitted to a planning board, and written
<br /> notice of the submission of such plan has been given to the city or town clerk, such
<br /> preliminary plan and the definitive plan evolved therefrom shall be governed by the rules
<br /> and regulations relative to subdivision control in effect at the time of the submission of
<br /> the preliminary plan, provided that the-definitive plan is duly submitted within seven
<br /> months from the date on which the preliminary plan was submitted.
<br /> Amended by SL1981, c. 459; SL1985, c. 637. § 9.
<br /> 1981 Amendment- SL1981, c. 459, approved 1955 ArnendmenL SL1985, c. 63T, § 9, ap-
<br /> Oct 15. 1981, added the proviso in the fourth proved Dec. 23, 1985, inserted the eighth and i
<br /> sentence. ninth sentences. '
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