Chapter 16.05
GENERAL PURPOSE
Sections:
16.05.010 Intent.
16.05.020 General scope.
16.05.030 Specific exemptions.
16.05.040 Mandatory regulations.
16.05.050 Administration.
16.05.010 Intent.
The purpose of these regulations is to protect the safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the city by regulating the layout and the construction of subdivisions, and ensuring that safe and sanitary conditions will be established. The powers, duties, and responsibilities of the planning director, planning commission, and city council under these regulations shall be exercised with due regard for the need to provide adequate access to all of the lots in a subdivision by roadways that will be safe and convenient for travel; for the need to minimize congestion in such roadways and on adjacent public roadways; for the need to reduce danger to life and property in the operation of motor vehicles; for the need to secure safety in cases of fire, flood, and other emergencies; for the need to ensure compliance with all other applicable requirements contained in this land development code; for the need to secure adequate provision for water, sewers, drainage, utility services, fire, police, and other city services; for coordinating the roadways in a subdivision with each other and with the roadways to which those in the proposed subdivision will interconnect; and for the need to provide adequate open space and recreation space. (Ord. 1110 § 2, 2002).
16.05.020 General scope.
Subdivisions, resubdivisions, and short subdivisions created for the purpose of partitioning land shall be reviewed in accordance with these standards. (Ord. 1110 § 2, 2002).
16.05.030 Specific exemptions.
The provisions of these standards shall not apply to the following:
(1) Cemeteries and other burial plots while used for that purpose;
(2) Divisions made by testamentary provisions or the laws of descent;
(3) Assessor’s plats made in compliance with RCW 58.17.240, 58.17.250 and 58.18.010;
(4) A division for the purpose of lease when the land is to be developed as a manufactured home park or a planned residential development has been approved pursuant to these residential performance standards;
(5) Condominiums: a division that is made by subjecting a portion of the land to Chapter 64.32 RCW (condominiums) and for which a planned residential development plan has been approved pursuant to these residential performance standards;
(6) Boundary line adjustments: a division made for the purpose of adjusting boundary lines that does not create any additional lot, tract, parcel, site, or division nor create any lot, tract, parcel, site, or division which contains insufficient area and dimension to meet minimum requirements for width and area for a building site. (Ord. 1110 § 2, 2002).
16.05.040 Mandatory regulations.
Any map, plat, replat, or plan hereafter made of a proposed division of land pursuant to these standards, or any part thereof, shall be presented for approval and be recorded as prescribed by these regulations. No such map, plat, replat, or plan shall be recorded or have any validity unless or until it is approved as may be required by these regulations. No person shall sell, lease, transfer, or offer to sell, lease, or transfer any lot, tract, or parcel subject to these standards without first receiving approval hereunder and filing a map of the approved division with the auditor. However, if performance of an offer or agreement to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer a lot, tract, or parcel following preliminary plat approval is expressly conditioned on the recording of the final plat containing the lot, tract, or parcel, the offer or agreement is not subject to RCW 58.17.200 or 58.17.300 and does not violate any provision of these regulations. All payments on account of an offer or agreement conditioned as provided in these standards shall be deposited in an escrow or other regulated trust account and no disbursement to sellers shall be permitted until the plat is recorded. (Ord. 1110 § 2, 2002).
16.05.050 Administration.
The city of Stanwood planning department is vested with the duty of administering subdivision and platting regulations within the recorded limits of the city, and may prepare and require the use of such forms as are essential to the administration of these regulations. (Ord. 1110 § 2, 2002).