[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
Where a proposed school, neighborhood park or recreation area or public access to water frontage, shown on the official City plan, is located in whole or in part in the applicant's subdivision, the Planning Commission may require as a condition of final approval that such space within the subdivision be reserved and not developed for a period not to exceed one (1) year from the date of such final approval so that within the period the appropriate public agency may acquire the land in the manner provided by law and before it is developed for some purpose not conforming to the official plan. If it is not so acquired and no legal action is filed within such period, such reservation shall be of no further effect and such lands then may be used for other purposes.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
Where stormwater from adjacent areas naturally passes through a subdivision, adequate provision shall be included in the grading or construction in the subdivision for facilities similar to grass swales or pipe sewers to route the stormwater through the subdivision to its natural outlet.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014; Ord. No. 3559, 10-18-2023]
All plats shall comply with Section 400.485 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
All subdivision boundary corners, street intersection corners and points of tangency and curvature shall be marked with survey monuments equivalent to concrete posts four (4) inches in diameter, three (3) feet long, flush with the finished grade. All other lot corners shall be marked with three-fourths-inch by twenty-four-inch iron pipe driven flush with the grade.
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A suitable curb and gutter shall be constructed along the outside lines of all street pavements. The type of curb and gutter shall be subject to the approval of the Director of Public Works.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
Concrete sidewalks at least four (4) feet wide and five (5) inches thick with a four-inch crushed stone base shall be constructed on both sides of each street, provided that the Planning Commission may recommend to the Council waiver or reduction of this requirement if it is established that the reasonably anticipated growth of the area and the probable nature of its development, its distance from concentrated urban development and developments creating pedestrian travel and the estimated volume of vehicular travel on the streets make such sidewalks unnecessary for the protection of the public safety and welfare.
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Cross Reference — Streets, sidewalks and other public places, Ch. 510.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
No topsoil shall be removed from the site or used as soil. Topsoil removed during the course of construction shall be stored during construction and redistributed so as to provide at least five (5) inches of cover to all areas of the subdivision and shall be established by seeding, sodding or planting.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
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Along Streets. The streets shall be provided with two (2) hardwood nursery-grown shade trees having a trunk diameter of two and one-half (2 1/2) inches measured at a height of six (6) inches above the finished ground level. Street trees shall be suitable for local soil and climate conditions and adapted to street use and approved by the Tree Board.
B. 
In Yards. One (1) shade tree having a trunk diameter of two and one-half (2 1/2) inches measured at a height of six (6) inches above the finished ground level shall be planted in the front yard of each improved lot after which time maintenance shall become the responsibility of the lot owner. Shade trees shall be so located as not to interfere with buildings, utilities or sidewalks and shall be placed from thirty-five (35) to forty-five (45) feet apart. At street corners, trees shall be located a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet back from the intersection of street right-of-way lines. Yard trees shall be suitable for local soil and climate conditions and approved by the Tree Board.
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Cross Reference — Planting and trimming of street trees, §§510.090510.100.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
An approved four-way metal street sign shall be installed at each street intersection. The letters shall be at least three and one-half (3 1/2) inches and conform to existing signs in design.
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Cross Reference — Signs and advertising devices, Ch. 410.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
All electric and telephone service for new subdivisions shall be installed underground. This Section does not apply to transmission lines that supply service to the subdivision.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
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Generally. A streetlight shall be provided at each intersection of streets within a subdivision, at each intersection of a street with a pedestrianway and at each circular turnaround, but in no event shall there be fewer than one (1) streetlight for each four hundred (400) linear feet or portion thereof of street frontage between intersections or between a street intersection and the terminus of a dead-end street. Lighting intensity of each streetlight shall be equivalent to a six thousand eight hundred (6,800) mercury luminaire lamp or a one-hundred-seventy-five-watt lamp, and the streetlight posts shall be at least sixteen (16) feet in height. Equivalents to these standards may be proposed and used when approved by the Director of Public Works.
B. 
Maintenance Agreement. Unless the Council hereafter provides by ordinance for other procedures, the developer shall submit to the Director of Public Works a maintenance agreement, a trust indenture or other similar instrument setting forth the person, corporation, trustees or other agency responsible for the assessment as well as the collection of the monies necessary for the operation of the streetlighting system within the subdivision and the methods of collection of said monies.
C. 
Property Of City. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (B), all subdivision streetlighting shall become the property of the City for maintenance and operational cost on July 1 next after completion of the subdivision, unless requested otherwise by the subdivision trustees.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
A. 
When the subdivision is located within the service area of a public water supply system, water mains not less than six (6) inches in diameter shall be constructed throughout the entire subdivision in such manner as to serve adequately all lots and tracts with connection to such public system together with shut-off valves and fire hydrants.
B. 
Fire hydrants shall be installed throughout the entire system at intervals of approximately four hundred (400) feet if within the service area of a public water supply system.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
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Permit Required For Construction. Before starting construction on a sanitary sewerage system in a development, the developer shall first obtain a written permit signed by the Director of Public Works. Construction drawings and specifications, together with such design calculations as may be required, prepared by a professional engineer registered by the State shall be submitted to the Director of Public Works for review at the time of request for a permit.
B. 
Existing Service Area.
1. 
Where an approved publicly or privately owned sanitary sewer system is located within two hundred (200) feet and reasonably accessible and meets the requirements of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Public Works, the developer shall connect with such sanitary sewer and provide an adequate service connection to each lot. Sewer connections and subdivision sewer systems shall comply with the regulations of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD), within its limits and the Department of Public Works and shall be constructed under the observation and inspection of MSD, when within its limits, or the Department of Public Works, where applicable, and shall be approved by same or a privately owned sewer company, when applicable.
2. 
Where an approved publicly or privately owned sanitary sewer is not reasonably accessible, but where plans for installation of sanitary sewers in the vicinity of the subdivision have been prepared and approved by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Public Works and MSD within its boundary limits, the developer shall install sewers in conformity with such plans, although a connection to an existing main may not be immediately practicable. In such cases and until a connection is made with an approved publicly or privately owned sewer system, the use of a sewage treatment facility will be permitted, provided that such disposal facilities are constructed in accordance with the regulations and requirements of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Zoning Ordinance and constructed under the observation and inspection of MSD, when within its limits, or the Department of Public Works.
3. 
Where no sewers are accessible and no plans for same have been prepared, the developer shall install sewer lines and a disposal system in accordance with the requirements of the preceding Subsection. A developer may install an individual sewage disposal system for each lot, if the following criteria are met:
a. 
If the lots have been created after the adoption of this Section, they must have MSD approval when within its limits;
b. 
The lots must have a minimum width of one hundred (100) feet and contain a minimum area of one hundred thirty thousand six hundred eighty (130,680) square feet when no public water system is available; sixty-five thousand three hundred forty (65,340) square feet where public water is available;
c. 
The individual sewage disposal system shall comply with the regulations and requirements of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources:
d. 
Each disposal system shall be constructed under the observation and inspection and approval by the Department of Public Works, by MSD when within its operating limit and other applicable agencies;
e. 
Individual sewage disposal systems shall not be used in a subdivision containing more than ten (10) lots, except in large-lot subdivisions, nor allowed within MSD limits unless approved by MSD.
4. 
In no event shall any residence or non-residential improvements be occupied nor shall an occupancy permit be issued until such residence or non-residential improvements are connected to sanitary sewage facilities conforming to this Section and all other governing ordinances and laws.
C. 
New Construction. All subdivisions developed in the future within the City shall, at the expense of the subdivider, be provided with a sanitary sewerage system that shall be connected to the municipal sewerage system. After completion of construction and after inspection and acceptance by the Director of Public Works, the system shall be dedicated to the City and shall become a part of the municipal sewerage system.
D. 
Placing Lines Under Concrete Pavements. Main, trunk or collector sewers constructed by developers shall not be constructed under concrete street pavements, except where crossing under such pavements. Where such crossings are made, they shall be made perpendicularly, or as nearly perpendicularly as practicable, to the longitudinal center line of the street pavement. If undue hardship is occasioned to the developer by such prohibition, the sewer may be constructed under the concrete street pavement, provided that written permission to do so is secured from the Director of Public Works.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
The detailed plans for the proper disposal of stormwater affecting the proposed subdivision shall show the location of all open drainage channels, together with such improvements which may be necessary, such as widening, straightening, surfacing or other improvements of such channels, reconstruction or construction of new bridges, culverts and the construction of all grass swales and underground enclosed pipe sewers and surface accessories necessary to efficiently carry off the stormwater and prevent ponding on the surface of the proposed subdivision and adjacent properties. The plans for these facilities shall be shown both in plan and profile with details of all necessary accessories. The data regarding the area to be served by the facilities and the estimated runoff, based on local criteria, from the area tributary to the facilities beyond the subdivision shall accompany the detailed plans.
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Cross Reference — Flood damage prevention, Ch. 420.
A. 
Required, Amount. Every person, firm, partnership, corporation or association using the public streets of the City in connection with the improvement of real or personal property, including the erection and construction of buildings in the City, or any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association engaged in the establishment and construction of public or private streets or driveways entering into existing public streets of the City shall deposit with the City, in addition to any permit fees or other deposits, cash in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each new single-family residence.
B. 
When Paid. Any deposit required under the provisions of this Section shall be made at the time of application for any permit which may be required for such improvement, construction, project, endeavor or enterprise; or, in the event no permit is required, at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the time such improvement, construction, project, endeavor or enterprise is begun.
C. 
Prerequisite For Building Permit. No building permit shall be valid unless the cash deposit required under the provisions of this Section has been made and a receipt therefor attached to or noted upon such building permit.
D. 
Additional To All Other Fees, Etc. These provisions are not intended to nor shall they supplant any existing ordinance of the City but shall be complementary to all other ordinances of the City.
E. 
Exemptions. The provisions of this Section shall not be applicable to any construction, improvement, project, endeavor or enterprise, under the direction of City officials, by employees of the City or by any contractor of the City performing work for and on behalf of the City.
F. 
Security For Performance.
1. 
Such deposit shall serve as security for the repair of any damage to or clean up of any litter upon the public streets in the City caused by the depositor's employees, agents, contractors, subcontractors or material men, either directly or indirectly, in connection with the construction of the depositor's street, driveway or other improvements.
2. 
All such damage done to City streets during the progress of depositor's construction, project, endeavor or enterprise shall be repaired by the depositor. Materials and standards for such repair shall conform to the requirements of any applicable City Code ordinance or specification. If the depositor, after request by the Director of Public Works, fails within seventy-two (72) hours to furnish the necessary labor and materials for such repair, the Director of Public Works is empowered to cause the necessary labor and materials to be furnished by the City, and the cost thereof shall be charged against and paid for out of the deposit required and established under the provisions of this Section.
3. 
As any improvement, construction, project, endeavor or enterprise progresses, all streets shall be thoroughly cleaned of all rubbish, ice, earth, mud, rocks, gravel, sand, cement, concrete, mortar, plaster or any other construction materials or debris resulting from such work. All cleanup operations shall be done by and at the expense of the contractor or the person by whom or for whose benefit the improvement, construction, project, endeavor or enterprise has been undertaken. All cleanup operations shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works. Cleanup operations shall be done from time to time as may be ordered by the Superintendent of Public Works and in any event shall be done daily. Upon a failure to clean up after notification to do so has been given by the Director of Public Works, such cleanup may be done by City employees and the cost thereof shall be charged against and paid for out of the deposit required under the provisions of this Section.
G. 
Separate Account Required. Cash deposits required to be made under the provisions of this Section shall be turned over to the City Treasurer who shall deposit them in a separate account established to receive only such deposits.
H. 
Refund. Any such deposit or the residue thereof, in the event of deduction for damage to or cleanup of public streets, shall be returned to the depositor upon order of the Council following application therefor in writing by the depositor after the completion of the depositor's improvement, construction, project, endeavor or enterprise and after certification in writing by the Director of Public Works that all repairs or cleanup required of the depositor has been satisfactorily completed.
I. 
Violation, Penalty. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association convicted of violating the provisions of this Section by commencing, entering into or proceeding with any improvement, construction, project, endeavor or enterprise without making the required cash deposit shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00); and each day that work or effort upon such improvement, construction, project, endeavor or enterprise continues without the required deposit being made shall constitute and be deemed a separate offense.
[Ord. No. 3187 §1, 11-5-2014]
A. 
Time Limit. Building construction must commence within a ninety-day period after the foundation is poured on any residential lot within the City.
B. 
Extension. Upon a showing of good cause, the Council may grant the developer an extension of the aforementioned ninety-day time limit for commencing of construction.
C. 
Restoration. If construction is not commenced within the ninety-day period and an extension of time has not been granted by the Council, the developer must return the ground to its original state by filling in the excavation and appropriate landscaping.
D. 
Penalty. Each day after the ninety-days or such time as extended by the Council that such ground is not returned to its original state shall constitute a separate violation.