[CC 1974 §405.020; Ord. No. 772 §§2, 5, 6-1967]
A.
The Board
of Aldermen of the City of Versailles shall adopt, amend and carry
out a City plan and appoint a Planning Commission with the powers
and duties as set forth in this Chapter.
B.
The Commission
shall make and adopt a City plan for the physical development of the
City of Versailles. The City plan, with the accompanying maps, plats,
charts and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the Commission's
recommendations for the physical development and uses of land, and
may include, among other things, the general location, character and
extent of streets and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces;
the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals,
whether publicly or privately owned; the acceptance, widening, removal,
extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change
of use of any of the foregoing; the general character, extent and
layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas. The
Commission may also prepare a zoning plan for the regulation of the
height, area, bulk, location and use of private, non-profit and public
structures and premises, and of population density, but the adoption,
enforcement and administration of the zoning plan shall conform to
the provisions of Sections 89.010 to 89.250, RSMo.
[CC 1974 §405.050; Ord. No. 772 §5, 6-1967]
In the preparation of the City plan the Commission shall make
careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions
and probable future growth of the municipality. The plan shall be
made with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated development
of the municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future
needs, best promote the general welfare as well as efficiency and
economy in the process of development.
[CC 1974 §405.060; Ord. No. 772 §7, 6-1967]
The Commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution
or, as the work of making the whole City plan progresses, may from
time to time adopt a part or parts thereof, any part to correspond
generally with one (1) or more of the functional subdivisions of the
subject matter of the plan. Before the adoption, amendment or extension
of the plan or portion thereof, the Commission shall hold at least
one (1) public hearing thereon. Fifteen (15) days' notice of the time
and place of such hearing shall be published in at least one (1) newspaper
having general circulation within the City of Versailles. The hearing
may be adjourned from time to time. The adoption of the plan requires
a majority vote of the full membership of the Planning Commission.
The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter
and other matters intended by the Commission to form the whole or
part of the plan and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted
plan or part thereof by the identifying signature of the Secretary
of the Commission and filed in the office of the Commission, identified
properly by file number, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall
be certified to the Board of Aldermen and the Municipal Clerk, and
a copy shall be available in the office of the Morgan County Recorder
of Deeds and shall be available at the Municipal Clerk's office for
public inspection during normal office hours.
[CC 1974 §405.070; Ord. No. 772 §8, 6-1967]
All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the Commission
within a reasonable time all available information it requires for
its work. The Commission, its members and employees in the performance
of its functions may enter upon any land to make examinations and
surveys. In general, the Commission shall have the power necessary
to enable it to perform its functions and promote municipal planning.
[CC 1974 §405.080; Ord. No. 772 §9, 6-1967]
Whenever the Commission adopts the plan of the City of Versailles
or any department thereof, no street or other public facilities, or
no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, and the location,
extent and character thereof having been included in the recommendations
and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed
or authorized in the municipality until the location, extent and character
thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Plan Commission.
In case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons
to the Board of Aldermen, and the Board, by vote of not less than
two-thirds (2/3) of its entire membership, may overrule the disapproval
and, upon the overruling, the Board or the appropriate board or officer
may proceed, except that if the public facility or utility is one
the authorization or financing of which does not fall within the province
of the Board, then the submission to the Planning Commission shall
be the board having jurisdiction, and the Planning Commission's disapproval
may be overruled by that board by a vote of not less than two-thirds
(2/3) of its entire membership. The acceptance, widening, removal,
extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of
use, acquisition of land for sale or lease of any street or other
public facility is subject to similar submission and approval, and
the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure of
the Commission to act within sixty (60) days after the date of official
submission to it shall be deemed approval.
[CC 1974 §405.090; Ord. No. 772 §10, 6-1967]
The Commission shall have and perform all of the functions of
the Zoning Commission provided for in Chapter 89, RSMo., and shall
have and perform all of the functions of a Planning Commission as
outlined in said Chapter.
[CC 1974 §405.100; Ord. No. 772 §11, 6-1967]
After the Planning Commission of the City of Versailles adopts
a City plan which includes at least a major street plan or progresses
in its City planning to the making and adoption of a major street
plan and files a certified copy of the major street plan in the office
of the Recorder of Deeds of Morgan County, then no plat of a subdivision
of land lying within the municipality shall be filed or recorded until
it has been submitted to and a report and recommendation thereon made
by the Commission to the Board of Aldermen, and the Board has approved
the plat as provided by law.
[CC 1974 §405.110; Ord. No. 772 §§12, 6-1967]
Before adoption of any subdivision regulations or any amendment
thereof by the Board of Aldermen, a duly advertised public hearing
thereof may be held by the Board.
[CC 1974 §405.120; Ord. No. 884 §§1 — 3, 3-1971; Ord. No. 947 §§13 — 14, 9-1974]
A.
Within
sixty (60) days after submission of a subdivision plat to the Commission,
the Commission shall approve or disapprove the plat, otherwise the
plat is deemed approved by the Commission; except that the Commission,
with the consent of the applicant for the approval, may extend the
sixty (60) day period. The ground of disapproval of any plat by the
Commission shall be made a matter of record.
B.
The approval
of a plat by the Commission does not constitute or effect an acceptance
by the municipality or public of the dedication to public use of any
street or other ground shown upon the plat.
C.
All plats
hereafter presented for approval as subdivisions shall be prepared
by a licensed Missouri surveyor, drawn to a legible scale, and shall
show the boundary lines of all proposed lots, tracts, streets, alleys
and easements, and said boundary lines shall specify the length and
course of each said boundary line.
D.
There
shall further be furnished, with each plat so presented, a contour
profile plan of said proposed subdivision, said profile to show contour
elevations not less than each three (3) feet in elevation.
E.
No plat
shall be shown on said plat, shall have had the topsoil removed therefrom,
and shall have been established at a grade to insure drainage of surface
water, which grade shall first be approved by the Street Commission
of the City of Versailles and which shall be surfaced with a minimum
six (6) inch base with four (4) inches of asphalt or six (6) inches
of concrete.
[CC 1974 §405.130; Ord. No. 772 §15, 6-1967]
No owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the
planning jurisdiction of the City of Versailles, 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 Board of Aldermen or Planning Commission and recorded in the
office of the Morgan 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 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. Said penalty shall be set by the Board of Aldermen.
The City of Versailles may enjoin or vacate the transfer or sale or
agreement by legal action and may recover the penalty in such action.
[CC 1974 §405.140; Ord. No. 772 §16, 6-1967]
Upon adoption of a major street plan and subdivision regulations,
the City of Versailles shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade,
pave or light any street, lay or authorize the laying of water mains,
sewers, connections or other utilities in any street within the municipality
unless the street has received the legal status of a public street
prior to the adoption of a City plan; or unless the street corresponds
in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat
approved by the Board of Aldermen or the Planning Commission or on
a street plan made by and adopted by the Commission. The Board of
Aldermen may locate and construct or may accept any other street if
the ordinance or other measure for the location and construction or
for the acceptance is first submitted to the Commission for its approval
and approved by the Commission or, if disapproved by the Commission,
is passed by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3)
of the entire membership of the Board of Aldermen.
[CC 1974 §405.150]
After the adoption of a major street plan, no building permit
shall be issued for and no building shall be erected on any lot within
the territorial jurisdiction of the Commission unless the street giving
access to the lot upon which the building is proposed to be placed
conforms to the requirements above-described.
[CC 1974 §405.160; Ord. No. 772 §18, 6-1967]
Whenever a plan for major streets has been adopted, the Board
of Aldermen upon recommendation of the Planning Commission is authorized
and empowered to establish, regulate and limit and amend, by ordinance,
building or setback lines on major streets and to prohibit any new
building being located within building or setback lines. When a plan
for proposed major streets or other public improvements has been adopted,
the Board of Aldermen may prohibit any new building being located
within the proposed site or right-of-way when the centerline of the
proposed street or the limits of the proposed sites have been carefully
determined and are accurately delineated on maps approved by the Planning
Commission and adopted by the Board.
