Chapter 17.28
FINAL PLATS
Sections:
17.28.010 Generally.
17.28.020 Specific requirements.
17.28.010 Generally.
A. The final plat shall be prepared in ink on mylar eighteen inches by twenty-four inches in size, with borders of one-half inch. All documents shall contain the name and address of the subdivider, his surveyor, and the name of the subdivision.
B. The final plat shall contain a legal description of the subdivision property.
C. The final plat shall provide space for the approving signatures of the administrator, city engineer and the mayor, and the city clerk shall attest the signatures.
D. The final plat shall contain the following certificate of the professional land surveyor:
I__________________, professional land surveyor, do hereby certify that the plat of (name of subdivision) is based on an actual survey and that the distances, courses, and angles are shown thereon correctly and that monuments have been set and lot corners staked on the ground as shown on the plat.
(Signature of land surveyor)
E. If the final plat contains dedication of land for public purposes, it shall contain the following statement:
Know all men by these presents that (name of subdivider) do hereby declare this plat and dedicate to the public forever all roads and ways and other public property shown hereon, and the use thereof for any and all public purposes, with the right to make all necessary slopes for cuts and fills, and the right to continue to drain the roads and ways over and across any lot or lots, where water might take a natural course, in the original reasonable grading of the roads and ways shown hereon.
Following original reasonable grading of roads and ways hereon, no drainage waters on any lot or lots shall be diverted or blocked from their natural course so as to discharge upon any public road rights-of-way, or to hamper proper road drainage. Any enclosing of drainage waters in culverts or drains or rerouting thereof across any lot as may be undertaken by or for the owner of such lot shall be done by and at the expense of such owner, but only after approval by the city engineer.
F. Homeowners Association. A homeowners association established for purposes of tract ownership and maintenance pursuant to this title shall be incorporated as a profit or nonprofit corporation and shall remain the owner unless tract ownership by all lots within the subdivision is authorized pursuant to the plat alteration process. In the event that a homeowners association established pursuant to this title should be dissolved, then each lot shall have an equal and undivided ownership interest in the tracts previously owned by the association as well as responsibility for maintaining the tracts. A covenant that requires maintenance of the tracts consistent with city code, that restricts use of the tracts to that specified in the approved preliminary plat, and that requires compliance with the city regulations and conditions of subdivision approval specified on the plat must be approved by the city and recorded with the county auditor. Said covenant shall be binding upon and inure, to the benefit of the homeowners association, the owners of all lots within the short subdivision and all others having any interest in the tracts or lots. Prior to the recording of the final plat, the community development department shall receive evidence that the articles of incorporation for the homeowners association have been prepared and are ready for filing with the subdivision, and a copy of the recorded articles of incorporation shall be provided to the department.
G. The final plat shall be submitted to the city engineer for final field and office checking. A filing fee in an amount set by the city council by periodic resolution shall be made with this submittal.
H. Upon final approval by the administrator and city signatories, it shall be filed for record with the Snohomish County auditor and a mylar copy, a blueline copy and a copy reduced to eight and one-half by eleven inches containing an auditor’s recording number shall be filed with the administrator. (Ord. 1257, 2002; Ord. 1203, 2000; Ord. 1061, 1995)
17.28.020 Specific requirements.
All final plats shall contain:
A. The date, scale, designation of north, and the date on which the survey was made;
B. Boundary lines with accurate distances and bearings, location and width of all previously recorded public highways approaching and intersecting boundaries of the subdivision referred to U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Datum, or the plain coordinate system of the state of Washington, or other data acceptable to the city engineer;
C. Boundary lines of parks and playgrounds and rights-of-way of public highways contained in the subdivision with a statement of dedication of such public lands;
D. Lines and names of streets, parks, playgrounds and easements for public dedication;
E. Lines and names of existing platted streets, parks, playgrounds and easements adjacent to the subdivisions, including municipal boundaries, township, and section lines;
F. Lengths and bearings of all straight lines, curve radii, arcs, and central angle of all curves;
G. All dimensions along lines of each lot, with true bearings and any other data necessary to locate lot lines in the field;
H. Suitable primary control points, acceptable to the city engineer, or descriptions and ties to such control points, to which all dimensions, angles, bearings, and similar data given on the plat shall be referred;
I. Monuments at all street intersections, boundary angle points, points of curves in streets, and at such intermediate points as may be required by the city engineer;
J. Names of all contiguous subdivisions;
K. Boundaries of the subdivision property with courses and distances marked thereon, as determined by a field survey made by a professional land surveyor registered in the state of Washington, in accordance with WAC 332-130-090;
L. Street names which shall be approved by the city engineer;
M. Complete field and computation notes shall be available upon request of the city engineer;
N. Where partial or complete section subdivision is required to determine boundaries of the property, a drawing showing the section subdivision shall be submitted with the final plat to be placed on file with the county auditor. (Ord. 1061, 1995)