Chapter 16.04
INTRODUCTION
Sections:
16.04.050 Concurrency for public facilities and utilities.
16.04.060 Planning/public works director.
16.04.070 Expiration of approval.
16.04.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this title includes but is not limited to regulating the subdivision of land and furthering the public health, safety and general welfare by:
A. Providing for the platting, subdivision, dedication and recording of land;
B. Providing for safe and adequate access;
C. Providing for safe and adequate streets, utilities, parks, and recreation facilities, schools, and other public facilities;
D. Providing for minimum levels of light, air, and open space;
E. Implementing the provisions and intent of the zoning code in CMC Title 17;
F. Requiring uniform monumentation and description for subdivided land, and conveyancing by legal description;
G. Providing for binding site plans on land so regulated;
H. Providing expeditious procedures for short subdivisions and lot line adjustments;
I. Providing for the housing and commercial land needs of the city of Cashmere. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008; Ord. 888 § 1, 1996).
16.04.015 Basic requirements.
For all divisions of land, binding site plans, manufactured home developments, plats or subdivisions authorized by this title, the subdivider shall meet the following minimum requirements:
A. Provide adequate public streets to access each parcel of land created as required by this title and meeting the standards of CMC Titles 13 and 15 and the Cashmere Design Standards Manual.
B. Provide water utility service to each lot created, adequate to serve future development at the density authorized by the applicable zoning designation of CMC Title 17 and meeting the standards of CMC Titles 13 and 15 and the Cashmere Design Standards Manual.
C. Provide wastewater utility service to each lot created adequate to serve future development at the density authorized by the applicable zoning designation of CMC Title 17 and meeting the standards of CMC Titles 13 and 15 and the Cashmere Design Standards Manual.
D. Provide adequate control of storm water runoff resulting from development at the density authorized by the applicable zoning designation of CMC Title 17 and meeting the standards of CMC Titles 13 and 15 and the Cashmere Design Standards Manual.
E. Provide adequate measures to mitigate for any adverse environmental impacts as identified by the city’s environmental policy and the State Environmental Policy Act.
F. The city of Cashmere comprehensive plan shall guide the use of all land within Cashmere’s planning area. The type and intensity of land use as shown on the comprehensive plan shall be used as a guide to determine the character of land division, including lot size and arrangements and the type and extent of streets and roads, highways, dedications, improvements, services, and other utilities and public facilities. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008; Ord. 944 §§ 1, 47, 1999).
16.04.020 Scope.
No land shall be divided for the purposes of sale, lease, or development; and no land so divided shall be sold, conveyed, transferred, leased or offered for sale or lease until the owner of the land has fully complied with the provisions of this title and CMC Titles 14, 15, and 17, except land divided for the purpose of adjusting boundary lines when such division does not create:
A. Any additional lot, tract, parcel, site or division; or
B. Any lot, tract, parcel, site or division containing insufficient area or dimensions to qualify as a building site. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008; Ord. 888 § 1, 1996).
16.04.030 Definitions.
The definitions of terms used in this chapter are in CMC Title 17. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008; Ord. 888 § 1, 1996).
16.04.040 Penalties.
Any person, partnership, association, firm or corporation who violates or fails to comply with this title is guilty of a civil infraction and is subject to the civil penalties and remedies and corrective actions as set forth in CMC 14.13.020 which remedies are cumulative, not alternative remedies, and are in addition to any other remedy to which the city may be entitled by law. Any violation of this title is declared to be a public nuisance, subject to abatement or injunctive relief in accordance with the laws of the state of Washington. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008; Ord. 944 § 2, 1999; Ord. 903 § 6, 1997).
16.04.050 Concurrency for public facilities and utilities.
Those public facilities and utilities required to be provided as a condition of approval shall be fully operational concurrently with the use and occupancy of the development, except that concurrency for transportation facilities will be within six years. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008).
16.04.060 Planning/public works director.
The planning/public works director of the city of Cashmere is vested with the duty and responsibility of administering the subdivision and platting regulations contained in this title within incorporated city limits and may prepare and require the use of such forms as are essential to their administration. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008).
16.04.070 Expiration of approval.
Approval of preliminary subdivisions, short subdivisions, and binding site plans shall automatically expire three years after preliminary approval is granted unless a time extension is approved for the project. If a request for an extension of time is not submitted and approved, the preliminary approval expires and the subdivision, short subdivision, or binding site plan is null and void. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008).
16.04.080 Extension of times.
An application form and supporting data for time extension requests must be submitted to the city of Cashmere care of the planning director at least 30 days prior to the expiration of the preliminary plat, short plat, or binding site plan.
The planning/public works director may administratively approve an extension; provided, that there are no changed conditions which would render the filing of the plat or binding site plan contrary to the public health, safety or general welfare.
The planning/public works director may grant one three-year time extension. Additional one-year extensions may be granted by the planning/public works director beyond the initial three-year extension. (Ord. 1119 § 1, 2008).