In considering applications for subdivision of land, the Zoning Board shall be guided by the standards set forth hereinafter. The said standards shall be considered to be minimum requirements and shall be waived by the Board only under circumstances set forth in Article
V herein.
All street names shown on a preliminary plat or subdivision
plat shall be approved by the Zoning Board. In general, streets shall
have names and not numbers or letters. Proposed street names shall
be substantially different so as not to be confused in sound or spelling
with present names, except that streets which join or are in alignment
with streets of an abutting or neighboring property shall bear the
same name. Generally, no street should change direction by more than
90° without a change in street name.
Adequate storm drainage systems shall be required in all new
subdivisions. The drainage system shall be designed by a person licensed
to perform such work.
A. Removal of spring- and surface water. Any spring- or surface water
that may exist either previous to or as a result of the subdivision
shall be carried away by pipe or open ditch. Such drainage facilities
shall be located in the street right-of-way, where feasible, or in
permanent easements having a minimum width of 20 feet and are subject
to approval of the Village Engineer.
B. Drainage structure to accommodate potential development upstream. A culvert or other drainage facility shall, in each case, be large enough to accommodate potential runoff from its entire upstream drainage area, whether inside or outside the subdivision. The Village Engineer shall approve the design and size of facility based on anticipated runoff from a ten-year storm under conditions of total potential development permitted by Chapter
295, Zoning, in the watershed. The cost of a culvert or other drainage facility in excess of that required for the particular subdivision may be deemed to be the responsibility of the Village or may be prorated among the upstream property owners.
C. Responsibility for drainage downstream. The subdivider's engineer
shall also study the effect of each subdivision on the existing downstream
drainage facilities outside the area of the subdivision; and this
study shall be reviewed by the Village Engineer. When it is anticipated
that the additional runoff incident to the development of the subdivision
will overload an existing downstream drainage facility during a five-year
storm, the Zoning Board shall notify the Village Board of such potential
condition. In such case, the Zoning Board shall not approve the subdivision
until provision has been made for the improvement of said condition.
D. Land subject to flooding. Land subject to flooding or land deemed by the Zoning Board to be uninhabitable because of flooding, soil conditions or other such hazards to person or property shall not be platted for residential occupancy nor for such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property or aggravate the flood hazard, but such land within the plat shall be set aside for such uses as shall not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation or improved in a manner satisfactory to the Zoning Board and Village Board to remedy said hazardous conditions, in compliance with Chapter
153, Flood Damage Prevention, of this Code.
[Amended 12-8-1986 by L.L. No. 1-1986]
E. All subdividers shall present an individual lot drainage plan for each lot in their proposed subdivision. Such plan shall be used in the grading of lots before a certificate of occupancy is granted, as required by Chapter
295, Zoning. No roof leaders or footing drains which carry stormwater will be permitted to use a sanitary sewer nor a so-called dry well in an area where the dominant soil is hardpan, but such stormwater shall be adequately disposed of upon the ground surface.
[Added 12-7-2006 by L.L. No. 7-2006]
A. Stormwater pollution prevention plan. A stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) consistent with the requirements Chapter
240, Part
2, Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control, shall be required for preliminary subdivision plat approval. The SWPPP shall meet the performance and design criteria and standards in Chapter
240, Part
2. The approved preliminary subdivision plat shall be consistent with the provisions of Chapter
240, Part
2. This requirement is applicable only if such plan is otherwise required by Chapter
240, Part
2.
B. Stormwater pollution prevention plan. A stormwater pollution prevention plan consistent with the requirements of Chapter
240, Part
2, Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control, and with the terms of preliminary plan approval shall be required for final subdivision plat approval. The SWPPP shall meet the performance and design criteria and standards in Chapter
240, Part
2. The approved final subdivision plat shall be consistent with the provisions of Chapter
240, Part
2. This requirement is applicable only if such plan is otherwise required by Chapter
240, Part
2.