The preliminary plat of the proposed subdivision
shall comply with the requirements and contain the information as
herein set forth.
The following information shall be shown:
A. The proposed subdivision name, which shall not duplicate
nor closely approximate the name of any other subdivision in Worcester
County.
B. The names and addresses of the owner and the designer,
surveyor or engineer.
C. A description of the subdivision location, by streets,
tract, political subdivision, etc.
D. The scale, North point and date.
E. A general layout of any proposed phasing or partial
platting of the subdivision.
The following information as to existing physical
conditions shall be as shown:
A. An outline survey of the land being subdivided, showing
all metes and bounds and the square footage or acreage.
B. Topographic contours, referenced to United States
Geological Survey datum, at five-foot intervals except where the average
slope is less than 3%, in which case two-foot contours will be required.
Contours shall extend 100 feet beyond the subdivision boundary except
across a public road.
C. Watercourses, important trees, wooded areas, buildings,
transmission lines, pipelines, other utilities, bridges and any other
significant physical items, with the sizes and grades of any water
or sewer lines.
D. The locations, widths and names of all existing streets,
alleys or other public ways within or adjoining the subdivision or
intersecting any street that bounds it; those recorded but unimproved
(shown by dotted lines); railroad, utility or other rights-of-way
or easements; parks and other public spaces, subdivisions, lots and
property lines; municipal corporation lines; and the approximate locations
and outlines of permanent buildings.
E. Existing zoning of the tract and adjacent properties.
F. The location of adjoining property lines and the names
of the owners.
G. The location and outline of all areas subject to flooding,
including information of regulatory flood elevations and boundaries
of the one-hundred-year floodplain as defined by the United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development, areas designated as state
and private wetlands on the wetlands boundaries maps of the State
Department of Natural Resources, all areas designated as nontidal
or upland wetlands by the United States Department of the Interior,
Fish and Wildlife Service or other appropriate agency and all areas
affected by or subject to the Chesapeake Bay critical areas legislation
of the State of Maryland or the Town of Snow Hill.