Article 1357
PLAN REQUIREMENTS
Sections:
1357.03 Offer of dedication may be noted on final plat.
1357.04 Streets, parks and other improvements private until dedicated or condemned.
1357.01 Preliminary plat.
Each subdivider shall submit to the city clerk for transmittal to the planning commission a preliminary plat, together with a completed application for approval. Each application for approval of any preliminary plat shall be accompanied by one inked or inked (existing) and pencil (proposed) drawing on tracing cloth and four legible black and white copies. If the subdivision is located outside the city limits, one black and white copy shall also be given to the municipality in which the subdivision is located. The remaining copies shall be filed by the city. A preliminary plat shall have a horizontal scale of not more than 100 feet to the inch, a vertical scale of not more than 40 feet to the inch, and an overall sheet size of 24 inches by 36 inches. Separate sheets shall be numbered to show their relation to the total sheets. The preliminary plat shall show or be accompanied by the following information:
(A) Tract boundary lines: bearings and distances.
(B) Easements: (existing) location, width and purpose.
(C) Streets on and adjacent to the tract: (existing) name and right-of-way width and location; type, width and elevation of surfacing; any legally established center line elevations; walks, curbs, gutters, culverts, etc.
(D) Utilities on and adjacent to the tract: (existing) location, size and invert elevation of sanitary, storm and combined sewers; location and size of water mains; location of gas lines, fire hydrants, electric and telephone poles and street lights; if water mains and sewers are not on or adjacent to the tract, the direction and distance to; and size of nearest ones, including invert elevation of sewers.
(E) Ground elevations on the tract: (existing) based on U.S.G.S. datum plane or one approved by the city engineer; for land that slopes less than two percent, spot elevations at all breaks in grade along all drainage channels or swales, and at selected points, not more than 100 feet apart in all directions; for land that slopes more than two percent, either contours with an interval of not more than five feet if ground slope is regular, or not more than two feet if ground slope is irregular.
(F) Subsurface conditions on the tract: (if required by the planning commission), location and results of tests made to ascertain subsurface soil, rock and ground water conditions; depth to ground water unless test pits are dry at a depth of five feet; location and results of solid percolation tests, if individual sewage disposal systems are proposed.
(G) Other conditions on the tract: watercourses, marshes, rock outcrop, wooded areas, isolated preservable trees one foot or more in diameter, houses, barns, shacks and other significant features.
(H) Other conditions on adjacent land: approximate direction and gradient of ground slope, including any embankments or retaining walls; character and location of buildings, railroads, power lines, towers and other nearby nonresidential land uses or adverse influences; owners of adjacent unplatted land; for adjacent platted land, refer to the subdivision plat by name, recordation date and number, and show approximate percent built-up, typical lot size and dwelling type.
(I) Zoning district boundaries: if any on or within 300 feet of the tract.
(J) Public improvements: highway or other major improvements planned by public authorities for future construction on or near the tract.
(K) Key map (on the plat): including proposed street system of any adjoining land owned by subdivider.
(L) Streets: (proposed) names; right-of-way and roadway widths; approximate grades and gradients; cross sections; profiles; similar data for alleys, if any; preliminary design of bridges or culverts, if any.
(M) Other rights-of-way or easements: (proposed) location, width and purpose, including street extensions as are necessary to provide adequate street connections to adjacent land.
(N) Location of utilities: (proposed) including sizes and grades.
(O) Lot lines, lot numbers and block numbers.
(P) Sites: (if any) for multiple-family dwellings, shopping centers, churches, industry or other nonpublic uses exclusive of one-family detached dwellings.
(Q) Sites: (if any) reserved or dedicated for parks, playgrounds, or other public uses.
(R) Minimum setback building lines.
(S) Site data: including number of residential lots, typical lot size and acres in parks, etc.
(T) Title and certificates: title under which proposed subdivision is to be recorded, with names and addresses of owner(s) and subdivider(s), notation stating acreage, scale, north arrow, datum, bench marks, certification and seal of professional engineer or land surveyor, date of survey.
(U) Approval certificates: places for signatures of chairman and secretary of the planning commission and date of conditional approval by the planning commission; place for the certificate of the city engineer. (Ord. 2624, 1965)
1357.02 Final plat.
Each subdivider shall submit to the city clerk for transmittal to the planning commission a final plat together with a completed application for approval. Each application for approval of any final plat shall be accompanied by two (three for a subdivision located outside the city limits) inked drawings on tracing cloth and four legible black and white copies. If the subdivision is located outside the city limits, one black and white copy shall also be given to the municipality in which the subdivision is located. One inked drawing on tracing cloth and the remaining black and white copies shall be filed by the city. A final plat shall have a horizontal scale of not more than 100 feet to the inch, a vertical scale of not more than 40 feet to the inch, an overall sheet size of 24 inches by 36 inches, and separate sheets shall be numbered to show their relation to the total sheets. For large subdivisions, the final plat may be submitted for approval in contiguous sections. The final plat shall show the following information:
(A) Primary control points and datum plane: to which all dimensions, angles, bearings, elevations and similar data are referred.
(B) Lines, dimensions, bearings or deflection angles, radii, arcs, central angles: tract boundary, easements, rights-of-way, lots, other sites, curves (dimensions in feet and hundredths of feet and angles in degrees and minutes).
(C) Streets: names, cross sections and profiles.
(D) Easements: location and purpose.
(E) Utilities: cross sections and profiles (including inlets, manholes and culverts).
(F) Lots: numbers, block numbers and size of each lot in square feet or acreage.
(G) Sites other than residential lots: name, purpose and size in square feet or acreage.
(H) Minimum setback building lines: lots and other sites.
(I) Monuments: location and description.
(J) Adjoining unplatted land: names of record owners as it appears in the county courthouse.
(K) Adjoining platted land: reference by record name, date and number as it appears in the county courthouse.
(L) Key map.
(M) Titles and certificates: title under which the subdivision is to be recorded; municipality in which the subdivision is located; names and addresses of owner(s) and subdivider(s); notarized affidavit of the applicant that he is the recorded owner(s) of the plat and he approves the plat; scale, north arrow; name, address and certification of the professional engineer or land surveyor; date of the survey.
(N) Approval certificates: if the subdivision is within the city, a certificate by the city engineer that either the subdivider has installed all the improvements required by the requirements of the land subdivision regulations or a proper completion guarantee has been posted which is available to the city, and in sufficient amount to assure the completion of all required improvements or a proposed method for the installation of required improvements in accordance with Act 247 (The Municipalities Planning Code); place for the signatures of the chairman and secretary of the planning commission and date approved by the planning commission; place for the signatures of the chief officer and attesting officer of the legislative body in which the subdivision is located and the resolution number and date of final approval; place for the certificate of the city engineer. (Ord. 2624, 1965)
1357.03 Offer of dedication may be noted on final plat.
Streets, parks and other public improvements shown on a subdivision plan to be recorded may be offered for dedication to the municipality by formal notation thereof on the plan, or the owner may note on the plan that such improvements have not been offered for dedication to the municipality. (Ord. 2624, 1965)
1357.04 Streets, parks and other improvements private until dedicated or condemned.
Every street, park or other improvement shown on a subdivision plan that is recorded, as provided herein, shall be deemed to be a private street, park or improvement until such time as the same has been offered for dedication to the municipality and accepted by council, or until it has been condemned for use as a public street, park or other improvement, or until the proper authorities of the municipality shall have made actual appropriation of the same by acceptance, entry, use or improvement. (Ord. 2624, 1965)