[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. I §101, 2-7-1968]
In pursuance of the authority conferred by Chapter 89, RSMo.,
1963, as amended, the City of Mound City, Missouri, does hereby enact
into law the following Articles and Sections.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. II §201, 2-7-1968]
This Chapter shall be known and cited as the "Subdivision Regulations
of the City of Mound City, Missouri".
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. III §301, 2-7-1968]
The subdivision regulations as herein set forth are intended
to assist orderly, efficient and integrated development within the
territorial jurisdiction; to promote the health, safety, morals and
general welfare of the residents of the City and environs; to ensure
conformance of subdivision plans with the capital improvement plans
of the City and environs; and to secure equitable handling of all
subdivision plats by providing uniform procedures and standards for
observance both by subdividers and the Commission.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. IV §401, 2-7-1968]
The provisions of these regulations shall apply to all land
located within the legal boundaries of the City of Mound City, Missouri,
as the same may be amended by subsequent annexation.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. IV §402, 2-7-1968]
A.
When
the Commission of Mound City adopts a Comprehensive Development 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 County
Recorder of Holt County, Missouri, no plat of a subdivision of land
lying within the territorial jurisdiction of Mound City 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
of Aldermen has approved the plat as provided by law.
B.
Whenever
the Commission adopts the Comprehensive Development Plan of Mound
City or any part 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 Comprehensive Development Plan or portions thereof,
shall be constructed or authorized in Mound City until the location,
extent and character thereof has been submitted to and acted upon
by the Commission.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. V §501, 2-7-1968]
In interpreting and applying these regulations, they shall be
held to be minimum requirements for the promotion of the public safety,
health, convenience, comfort, morals, prosperity and general welfare.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. IX §901, 2-7-1968]
A.
Unless
otherwise approved by the Commission, provision must be made for the
extension of major and collector streets as shown on the Comprehensive
Development Plan of the City and local streets must provide free circulation
within the subdivision.
1.
The system of streets designated for the subdivision, except in unusual
cases, must connect with streets already dedicated in adjacent subdivisions;
and where no adjacent connections are platted, must in general be
the reasonable projection of streets in the nearest subdivisions;
and must be continued to the boundaries of the tract subdivided, so
that other subdivisions may connect therewith.
2.
Rights-of-way providing for the future opening and extension of such
streets may at the discretion of the Commission be made a requirement
of the plat.
3.
Off-center street intersections will not be approved except in unusual
cases.
4.
In general, streets shall be of a width at least as great as that
of the streets so continued or projected.
5.
Local streets shall be arranged to discourage through traffic.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. IX §902, 2-7-1968]
Where the parcel of land is subdivided into larger tracts than
ordinarily used for building lots, such parcel shall be divided as
to allow for the opening of major streets and the ultimate extension
of adjacent collector and minor streets.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. IX §903, 2-7-1968]
Every lot within a subdivision shall front on a publicly dedicated
street.
[Ord. No. 636 Sub. Art. IX §904, 2-7-1968]
A.
Land
subject to flooding, improper drainage and erosion, and any land deemed
to be topographically unsuitable for residential use shall not be
platted for residential occupancy nor shall such land be platted for
any other uses as may continue such conditions or increase danger
to health, safety, life or property unless steps are taken to diminish
the above mentioned hazards.
