Division IV. Land Division
Chapter 11.140
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections:
11.140.020 Scope and compliance.
11.140.010 Purpose.
The purpose of Division IV, Land Division, is to:
A. Regulate the division of land and promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the residents of Ritzville in accordance with standards established by the state to prevent the overcrowding of land;
B. Provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout Ritzville, with particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways, the provision of suitable ingress and egress, and the creation of safe and adequate pedestrian and traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings;
C. Protect the character and the social and economic stability of Ritzville and encourage the orderly and beneficial development of the community through appropriate growth management techniques assuring the timing and sequencing of development;
D. Ensure that public facilities, such as streets, water, sewerage, parks and recreation areas and other public services are sufficient and concurrent with development;
E. Ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of divided land; and
F. Provide for the expeditious review and approval of proposed subdivisions which conform to the comprehensive plan, zoning standards and local plans as adopted under the Growth Management Act. (Ord. 2041 § 1 (Exh. A), 2010; Ord. 1024 § 11.04.010, 2001).
11.140.020 Scope and compliance.
A. Any division, redivision, platting or subdivision or any division of land containing a dedication of any part to any public purpose, such as a public street, highway, or public open space, shall comply with the provisions of this chapter.
B. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the following:
1. Cemeteries and burial plots while used for that purpose;
2. Division of land into lots or tracts, each of which is one-sixty-fourth of a section of land or larger, or 10 acres or larger, if the land is not capable of description as a fraction of a section of land. For purposes of computing the size of any lot under this subsection which borders on a street or road, excluding limited-access streets or roads, the lot size shall be expanded to include that area which would be bounded by the centerline of the road or street, and the side lot lines of the lot running perpendicular to the centerline;
3. Divisions of land which are the result of the actions of governmental agencies, such as condemnation for road construction purposes;
4. Division of land made by testamentary provisions, or the laws of descent;
5. A division made for the purpose of adjusting boundary lines which 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, depth, and area for a building site;
6. Divisions of land into lots or tracts classified for industrial or commercial use when the city has approved a binding site plan for the use of the land in accordance with city regulations;
7. A division for the purpose of lease when no residential structures other than mobile homes or travel trailers are to be placed upon the land when a binding site plan has been approved for the use of the land;
8. A division for the purpose of alteration by adjusting boundary lines, between platted or unplatted lots or both, which does not create any additional lot, tract, parcel, site, or division which contains insufficient area for a building site; and
9. Divisions of land into lots or tracts if:
a. The improvements constructed or to be constructed thereon will be included in one or more condominiums or owned by an association or other legal entity in which the owners of units therein or their owners’ associations have a membership or other legal or beneficial interest;
b. A city, town or county has approved a binding site plan for such land; and
c. The binding site plan contains thereunto the following statement:
All development of the land described herein shall be in accordance with the binding site plan, as it may be amended. Upon completion, the improvements on the land shall be included in one or more condominiums or owned by an association or other legal entity in which the owners of units therein or their owners’ associations have a membership or other legal or beneficial interest.
(Ord. 2041 § 1 (Exh. A), 2010; Ord. 1024 § 11.04.020, 2001).