[R.O. 1992 § 405.010; CC 1984 § 43.010; Ord. No. 2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
The rules and regulations governing plats of subdivisions of
land contained herein shall apply within the corporate limits of the
City of Camdenton in accordance with the provisions of Section 89.300,
RSMo., et seq.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.015; Ord. No.
2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
A.
The purposes of this Chapter are:
1.
To provide for the coordination of streets within subdivisions
with other existing or planned streets or with other features of the
Comprehensive Plan of the City;
2.
To provide minimum requirements for the preliminary and final
plats;
3.
To provide for minimum standards of physical improvements in
new subdivisions;
4.
To provide for adequate open space for traffic, recreation,
light and air; and
5.
To provide for a distribution of population and traffic for
the health, safety and general welfare of the community.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.020; CC 1984 § 43.020; Ord. No. 2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
For the purpose of interpreting this Chapter, certain terms
are defined as follows:
A passage or way affording generally a secondary means of
vehicular access to abutting properties and not intended for general
traffic circulation.
The Board of Aldermen of Camdenton.
The City of Camdenton, Missouri.
The Comprehensive Plan of the City of Camdenton, whether
in whole or in part, as adopted by the Planning and Zoning Commission,
approved by the Board of Aldermen and duly recorded in the office
of the County Recorder of Camden County. It may consist of several
maps, data and other descriptive matter for the physical development
of the City or any portion thereto, including any amendment, extension
or additions thereof adopted by the Board of Aldermen indicating the
general locations for major streets, parks, schools or other public
open spaces, public building sites, routes for public utilities, zoning
districts or other similar information.
A short street having one (1) end open to traffic and being
terminated at the other end by a vehicular turn-around.
A grant by the property owner of the use, for a specific
purpose or purposes, of a strip of land by the general public, utility
companies or private individuals.
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a
building together with its accessary building, including open space
for light and air as required by the Zoning Ordinance.
Land which may be dedicated or reserved for acquisition for
general use by the public, including parks, recreation areas, school
sites, community or public building sites and other lands.
The Camdenton Planning and Zoning Commission.
The City Administrator of the City of Camdenton for matters
pertaining to the subdivision of land.
That portion of any street designated for vehicular traffic
and, where curbs are laid, that portion of the street between the
curbs.
The full width between the property lines bounding every
way of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to use by the
public as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic
and whether designated as a street, highway, freeway, expressway,
thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane,
place, circle or however otherwise designated:
Major streets and highways are those which are used primarily
for fast or heavy traffic.
Collector streets are those which provide for traffic movement
between major streets and highways and local streets including principal
entrance streets or residential developments and streets for circulation
within such developments.
Local and minor streets are those used primarily to provide
direct access to individual lots and for local traffic movements.
The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more lots
or other divisions of land; it includes resubdivision and, when appropriate
to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land
or territory subdivided.
All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions, including,
but not limited to, subdivisions of five (5) or more lots, or any
size subdivision requiring any new street or extension of City facilities
or the installation of any public improvements.
Any subdivision containing not more than four (4) lots fronting
on any existing and/or platted street, not involving any new street
or road, or the extension of municipal facilities or the creation
of any public improvements, and not adversely affecting the remainder
of the parcel or adjoining property, and not in conflict with any
provision or portion of the City Plan, official Zoning Map, Zoning
Ordinances or these regulations.
A major street.
A major street so designated in the official thoroughfare
plan.
The Official Zoning Ordinance of the City of Camdenton.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.030; CC 1984 § 43.030; Ord. No. 2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person being the owner, agent or person
having control of any land within the City to subdivide or lay out
such land in lots unless by plat in accordance with this Chapter.
No lots shall be sold nor building permits issued for nor any plat
recorded until such plat has been approved as provided in this Chapter.
B.
No owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the platting
jurisdiction of any municipality, 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 appropriate
County Recorder unless the owner or agent shall disclose in writing
that such plat has not been approved by such Board of Aldermen or
planning commission and the sale is contingent upon the approval of
such plat by such Board of Aldermen or planning commission. 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. A municipality may enjoin
or vacate the transfer or sale or agreement by legal action, and may
recover the penalty in such action.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.040; CC 1984 § 43.040; Ord. No. 2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
A.
No plat of a subdivision shall be recorded unless and until it shall
have been submitted and approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission
and Board of Aldermen in accordance with the regulations set forth
in this Code and so certified by the City Clerk.
B.
Any owner or any proprietor of any tract of land situated within
the corporate limits of the City who subdivides the same shall cause
a certified copy of the plat of such subdivision, with reference to
known or permanent monuments, to be made and recorded in the office
of the Recorder of Deeds of Camden County.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.050; CC 1984 § 43.050; Ord. No. 2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
This Chapter may be changed and amended from time to time by
the Board of Aldermen; provided, however, that such changes or amendments
shall not become effective until after a study and report by the Planning
and Zoning Commission and until after a public hearing has been held,
public notice of which shall have been given in a newspaper of general
circulation at least fifteen (15) days prior to such hearing.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.060; CC 1984 § 43.060; Ord. No. 2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
Every plat shall be prepared by a registered professional surveyor,
duly licensed by the State, who shall endorse upon each such plat
a certificate signed by him/her setting forth the source of the title
of the owner of the land subdivided and the place of record of the
last instrument in the chain of the title and shall cause his/her
seal to be affixed on the face of the plat.
[R.O. 1992 § 405.070; CC 1984 § 43.070; Ord. No. 2269-08 § 1, 8-19-2008]
A.
Subdivisions shall be classified as either minor or major in accordance
with the provisions of this Section.
C.
The classification of a subdivision as a "minor subdivision" shall
not be construed as a waiver of the platting requirements of the Subdivision
Regulations nor the provisions of any other Ordinance or Statute pertaining
to the property.
