Chapter 8.25
PRELIMINARY SUBDIVISION REVIEW
Sections:
8.25.020 Approval of preliminary plat.
8.25.010 Preliminary plat.
The preliminary plat shall comply with the following requirements:
(A) Submission Requirement. Submit four standard 22-inch by 34-inch copies (see standard drawing No. 1), one reduced to 11-inch by 17-inch (one-half scale) copy, plus one PDF copy of the preliminary plat, for review at least two weeks prior to the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Planning Commission, in accordance with the Community Development submittal policy. Once a complete application has been received, the Community Development Department shall schedule a public hearing within a reasonable time in light of the complexity of the application, the number of other applications received, available staff resources, and applicable public notice requirements. Such notice shall be given in accordance with SCC 10.20.050. The Community Development Director shall, if a complete application is not so submitted in a timely manner, postpone scheduling a public hearing for consideration thereof until complete.
(B) General Information Required.
(1) The proposed name of the subdivision.
(2) The location of the subdivision, including the address of the section, township and range.
(3) Date of preparation.
(4) The location of the nearest bench mark and monument.
(5) The boundary of the proposed subdivision.
(6) Legal description of the subdivision and acreage included.
(7) Location, width and name of existing streets within 200 feet of the subdivision and of all prior platted streets and other public ways, railroad and utilities rights-of-way, parks and other public open spaces, permanent buildings and structures, houses or permanent easements, and section and corporate lines within and adjacent to the tract.
(8) Easements for water, sewer, drainage, utility lines, fencing, and other appropriate purposes.
(9) The layout, number, area, and typical dimensions of lots, streets, and utilities.
(10) Parcels of land intended to be dedicated or temporarily reserved for public use or set aside for use of property owners in a subdivision including, but not limited to, sites to be reserved or dedicated for parks, playgrounds, schools or other public uses.
(11) Current inset City map showing location of subdivision.
(12) Boundary lines of adjacent tracts of undivided land showing ownership.
(13) Location of all wells, proposed, active and abandoned, and of all reservoirs within the tract and to a distance of at least 100 feet beyond the tract boundaries.
(14) Existing sewers, field drains, water mains, culverts or other underground facilities within the tract and to a distance of at least 100 feet beyond the tract boundaries, indicating pipe size, grades, manholes and exact location.
(15) Existing ditches, canals, natural drainage channels, open waterways, and proposed alignments within the tract and to a distance of at least 100 feet beyond the tract boundaries.
(16) Contours at two-foot intervals for predominate ground slopes within the subdivision between level and 10 percent, and five-foot contours for predominate ground slopes within the subdivision greater than 10 percent.
(17) The plat shall be drawn to a scale of not less than one inch equals 100 feet and shall indicate the base of bearing true north.
(18) The developer’s detailed plan for protecting future residents of his development from such hazards as open ditches, canals or waterways, nonaccess streets, open reservoirs or bodies of water, railroad rights-of-way and other such features of a potentially hazardous nature located on, crossing, contiguous or near to the property being subdivided, with the exception that the developer’s plan need not cover those features which the Planning Commission determines would not be a hazard to life and/or where the conforming structure designed to protect the future residents would itself create a hazard to the safety of the public. The foregoing does not relieve the developer of the duty to investigate all possible means of protecting future residents from a potential hazard before a determination is made that the only conceivable means of protection is potentially more hazardous than the hazard itself.
(19) Location of existing and proposed land drains. [Ord. 14-23 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 13-15 § 1; Ord. 13-02 § 1 (Exhibit); amended 1997; Code 1971 § 8-5-1.]
8.25.020 Approval of preliminary plat.
Members of the Development Review Committee shall prepare reports of compliance with City ordinance for the Planning Commission. Following this investigation and after holding a duly noticed public hearing, the Planning Commission shall approve the preliminary plat as submitted or modified, or disapprove by indicating findings for the disapproval. The Planning Commission may also table the preliminary plat for the purpose of obtaining additional information, or to allow the developer to modify the plat submittal.
Except as provided in SCC 10.75.090 and 10.82.080, Planning Commission approval of the preliminary plat shall authorize the developer to proceed with preparation of the final plat. Approval of a preliminary plat by the City Council will extend for a period of one year. If work or subsequent action by the developer to proceed to final plan review does not occur within the year following initial approval, the plan must be resubmitted and become subject to reapproval under the latest City ordinances and specifications. [Ord. 21-03 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 14-23 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 13-02 § 1 (Exhibit); amended 1999; Code 1971 § 8-5-2.]
8.25.030 Severability.
If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given independent effect. To this end, the provisions of this chapter are severable. [Ord. 14-23 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 13-02 § 1 (Exhibit).]