[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.010), 4-1-2002]
These regulations entitled the "Harrisonville Subdivision Regulations" prescribe minimum design requirements and uniform approval procedures for the development of new subdivisions and resubdivisions of land in Harrisonville, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.020), 4-1-2002; Ord. No. 3637, 3-20-2023]
Responsible land subdivision is the initial step in the process of orderly community development. Once land has been divided into streets, lots and blocks and publicly recorded, the correction of defects is difficult and costly. These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
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To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the City.
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To guide the future growth and development of the City in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan.
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To provide for adequate light, air and privacy, to secure safety from fire, flood and other danger and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of population.
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To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the City and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of the community through appropriate growth management techniques.
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To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the City and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
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To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewer, schools, parks, recreation and other public facilities.
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To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the City, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.
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To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
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To ensure that public facilities and services are available concurrent with development and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision and that the City will be required to bear no more than its fair share of the cost of providing the facilities and services through requiring the developer to pay fees, furnish land or establish mitigation measure to ensure that the development provides its fair share of infrastructure needs generated by the development.
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To prevent the pollution of air, streams and ponds; assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the municipality in order to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the City and the value of the land.
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To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the City and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.
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To provide for open spaces through the most efficient design and layout of the land, including the use of average density in providing for minimum width and area of lots, while preserving the density of development as established in the Zoning Ordinance of the City.
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To ensure that land is subdivided only when subdivision is necessary to provide for uses of land for which market demand exists and which are in the public interest.
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To remedy the problems associated with inappropriately subdivided land, including premature subdivision, excess subdivision, partial or incomplete subdivision, scattered and low-grade subdivision.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.030), 4-1-2002]
The requirements and recommendations set forth herein are designed to encourage orderly growth for the City of Harrisonville through responsible land subdivision and are adopted under the authority established by Sections 89.300 through 89.480, RSMo., and by other applicable laws, Statutes, orders and regulations of the State of Missouri and the City of Harrisonville.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.040), 4-1-2002]
This Section shall apply to all subdivision of land within the corporate limits of the City of Harrisonville as presently exists or as hereafter established and to unincorporated land in Cass County within one (1) mile of the corporate limits or within one-half (½) mile of the limits of intended annexation.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.050), 4-1-2002; Ord. No. 3637, 3-20-2023]
The requirements of these subdivision regulations shall apply to any owner or owners desiring to:
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Divide, further divide land; or
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Otherwise alter the boundaries of lots or parcels of land; or
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Dedicate land for use as streets, alleys, sidewalks or for other public or private purposes.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.060), 4-1-2002; Ord. No. 3638, 3-20-2023]
Notwithstanding the requirements of Sections 410.030 through 410.050, these subdivision regulations shall not apply in the following instances or transactions:
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The division or further division of land into lots or parcels, each of which contains more than forty (40) acres, where such subdivision does not involve the creation of any new streets, access easements or landlocked parcels.
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A transaction between owners of adjoining land which involves only a change in the boundary between the land owned by such persons and does not create an additional lot or non-conformity.
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A conveyance of land or interest therein for use as right-of-way or other public utilities subject to State or Federal regulation, where no new street or easement of access is created.
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A conveyance made to correct a description in a prior conveyance.
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Any transfer by operation of law.
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A division of property through inheritance, the probate of an estate, or by order of a court of law.
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The creation of a leasehold for a space within a multi-occupant building or a commercial building site, provided that the property is a part of an approved subdivision or addition and regulated in accordance with the site plan requirements.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.070), 4-1-2002; Ord. No. 3503, 8-3-2020; Ord. No. 3638, 3-20-2023]
In order to prevent the premature development of land which might pose a threat to the health, safety or general welfare of the community at large, or the occupants of land in the particular area of the City, it shall be the policy of the City that no application for preliminary or final plat shall be approved unless public facilities and services, which are adequate to serve the development, are either:
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Presently available; or
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Are to be provided as a condition of approval of the application; or
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Are planned to be available reasonably concurrent with the anticipated impacts of the proposed development as determined by the affected utility, agency or department.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.080), 4-1-2002; Ord. No. 3503, 8-3-2020; Ord. No. 3638, 3-20-2023]
The Director shall be responsible for enforcing the following requirements regarding the subdivision and platting of property:
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No subdivision (except a minor subdivision as defined herein) may be developed in the City until both a preliminary and a final plat have been submitted and approved and all applicable conditions of this Chapter have been satisfied.
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No person shall create a minor subdivision, plat amendment, resurvey or any other similar act within the City, except in conformance with the provisions of this Chapter.
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No lot, tract or parcel of land shall be divided by a metes and bounds description for the purpose of sale, transfer, or lease except in conformity with these regulations.
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No subdivision shall contain a lot that is less than the minimum dimensional standards set out in the applicable zoning district regulations.
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No lot, tract or parcel of land as part of any plat or replat of any subdivision shall be sold or offered for sale, traded or otherwise conveyed unless the plat or replat first shall have been approved in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and recorded in the Office of the Cass County Recorder of Deeds.
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No building permit shall be issued for the construction of any building or structure located on a lot, tract or parcel or plat divided or sold in violation of the provisions of this Chapter.
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No building permit shall be issued for a lot that is not platted as required by this Chapter.
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No person shall change any recorded subdivision plat if the change affects any street layout shown on the plat, or area reserved for public use, or any lot line, or if it affects any map legally recorded prior to the effective date of this Chapter, unless the parcel shall be approved by the City under the procedures established by this Chapter.
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No changes, erasures, modifications or revisions shall be made to any plat after approval has been given by the Governing Body unless the plat is first resubmitted for review and approval as required by this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.090), 4-1-2002; Ord. No. 3637, 3-20-2023]
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In their interpretation and application, the provisions of these subdivision regulations shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety and general welfare.
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Conflict With Public And Private Provisions.
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Public Provisions. These regulations are not intended to interfere with, abrogate or annul any other City ordinance, rule or regulation, statute or other provision of law. Where any provision of these subdivision regulations imposes restrictions different from those imposed by any other provision of these subdivision regulations or any other City ordinance, rule or regulation or other provision of law, whichever provisions are more restrictive or impose higher standards shall control.
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Private Provisions. These regulations are not intended to abrogate any easement, covenant or any other private agreement or restriction, provided that where the provisions of these subdivision regulations are more restrictive or impose higher standards or regulations than such easement, covenant or other private agreement or restriction, the requirements of these subdivision regulations shall govern. Where the provisions of the easement, covenant or private agreement or restriction impose duties and obligations more restrictive or higher standards than the requirements of these subdivision regulations or the determinations of the Planning and Zoning Commission or the Board of Aldermen in approving a subdivision or in enforcing these subdivision regulations or determinations thereunder, then such private provisions shall be operative and supplemental to these subdivision regulations and determination made thereunder.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.100), 4-1-2002]
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A subdivision of land which was not lawfully existing at the time of the adoption of these subdivision regulations shall not become or be made lawful solely by reason of the adoption of these subdivision regulations.
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The provisions of these subdivision regulations are cumulative and additional limitations upon all other laws and ordinances heretofore passed or which may be passed hereafter governing any subject matter set forth in the provisions of these subdivision regulations.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.110), 4-1-2002]
If any part or provision of these subdivision regulations or application thereof to any person or circumstances is adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this Chapter or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances. The Planning and Zoning Commission hereby declares that it would have enacted the remainder of these subdivision regulations even without any such part, provision or application.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.120), 4-1-2002]
A. 
The subdivision of land is a privilege conferred upon the developer by the laws of the State of Missouri and through these subdivision regulations. It is the developer who is seeking to acquire the advantages of lot subdivision and upon him/her rests the duty of compliance with reasonable conditions imposed by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Aldermen. The Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Aldermen are hereby authorized to impose such conditions upon the approval of a preliminary plat or final plat, as applicable, in order to ensure that this Chapter's purposes are achieved.
B. 
In addition to any such conditions imposed by the Planning and Zoning Commission and/or the Board of Aldermen, the developer of a subdivision has the duty to comply with the conditions and requirements provided in this Chapter for design, dedication, improvement and restrictive use of land so as to conform to the physical and economic development of the City and to the safety and general welfare of future lot owners in such subdivision and of the community at large.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.130), 4-1-2002]
The adoption of these Subdivision Regulations repeals the existing Harrisonville Subdivision Regulations contained in Ordinance 1831 dated June 10, 1991. Despite the repeal of regulations existing at the time of adoption of these regulations, nothing contained in these Subdivision Regulations shall affect any rights accrued or liabilities incurred under said previously existing regulations.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.140), 4-1-2002]
These regulations, being designated as the "Subdivision Regulations of Harrisonville, Missouri", shall be in full force and effect from and after their passage and publication as provided by law.
[Ord. No. 2766 §1(120.150), 4-1-2002]
These Subdivision Regulations may be changed or amended in accordance with Section 89.400 et. seq., RSMo. Such changes or amendments may be adopted at any time after the Planning and Zoning Commission has held at least one (1) duly advertised public hearing on the proposed change or amendment. No changes or amendments adopted by the Planning and Zoning Commission shall become effective unless and until the same have been submitted to and approved by the Board of Aldermen after a duly advertised public hearing.