[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-101), 2-22-1999]
A. The rules
and regulations set out in this Chapter are intended to serve the
following purposes:
1. To assist
orderly, efficient and integrated development within the territorial
jurisdiction of the City.
2. To promote
the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the residents of
the City and its environs.
3. To ensure
conformance of subdivision plans with the public improvement plans
of the City and its environs.
4. To assure
equitable handling of all subdivision plans by providing uniform procedures
and standards for observance both by subdivider and the Planning and
Zoning Commission.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-102), 2-22-1999]
The rules and regulations set out in this Chapter pertain to
development of subdivisions within the City and may impose greater
or different restrictions than are currently imposed in the corresponding
zoning regulations.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-103), 2-22-1999]
Any subdivider of land within the territorial jurisdiction shall
submit to the Planning and Zoning Commission plats of the subdivision
and plans for indicated improvements according to the regulations
of this Title. In considering the approval of a plat, the Planning
and Zoning Commission shall observe the requirements and procedures
set forth herein. In the case of a plat constituting a replat of land
into two (2) or more lots, all of which will be served by an existing
street or streets, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall have the
power to vary the requirements so that substantial justice maybe done
and the public interest served.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-104), 2-22-1999]
The provisions of this Chapter shall be administered by the
Planning and Zoning Commission. The Commission may from time to time
suggest instructions and operating procedures to be followed in the
administration of these regulations to the end that the public may
be informed and that approval of plats be expedited.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-105), 2-22-1999; Ord. No. 7170 §1(9-105), 6-27-2005]
A. Each
subdivider shall pay fees to the City Clerk in accord with the following
schedule:
1. The
fee for each application for approval of a preliminary plat is three
hundred thirty-six dollars ($336.00).
2. The
fee for each additional review of a preliminary plat is one hundred
six dollars ($106.00).
3. The
fee for each review of the infrastructure of each plat is two hundred
seventy dollars ($270.00).
4. The
fee for each application for approval of a final plat is one hundred
fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
B. No fee
shall be charged for land to be dedicated to the public.
C. The Planning
and Zoning Commission shall calculate the fee for each application.
D. Fees
shall be payable in advance of processing the plat.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-106), 2-22-1999]
No subdivider proposing to make or having made a subdivision
within the territorial jurisdiction shall proceed with any construction
work on the proposed subdivision, including grading, before obtaining
from the Planning and Zoning Commission a certificate of final preliminary
approval.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-107), 2-22-1999]
No owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the
planning jurisdiction of the City, knowingly or with intent to defraud,
may transfer, sell, agree to sell or negotiate to sell that land by
reference to or by other use of a plat of any purported subdivision
of the land before the plat has been approved by the Planning and
Zoning Commission and/or City Council and recorded in the office of
the Jasper County Recorder. Any person violating the provisions of
this Section shall forfeit and pay to the municipality a penalty not
to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each lot transferred
or sold or agreed to be or negotiated to be sold; and the description
by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document
used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the
transaction from this penalty. The City may enjoin or vacate the transfer
or sale or agreement by legal action and may recover the penalty in
such action.