[Amended 3-6-2023 by Ord. No. 1058]
No land which is located within the corporate limits of the
City, or which is located entirely or in part in any unincorporated
area within 1 1/ 2 miles of the nearest limits of the City shall,
after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter,
be subdivided and filed for record, nor any street laid out, nor any
improvements made to the land, until the plat or plats of the subdivision
have been certified to and approved by action as specified in this
chapter.
The layout of the proposed subdivision shall be in conformity
with the Comprehensive Plan.
No land shall be subdivided for any use unless access to the
land over streets exists or will be provided by the subdivider.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
In order to conserve time, effort and expense, the owner or
subdivider shall consult with the Zoning Board of Appeals and the
plat officer prior to the preparation of the preliminary plat of the
subdivision. Requirements for streets, school and recreational sites,
shopping centers, community facilities, sanitation, water supply and
drainage, and relationship to other developments, existing and proposed,
in the vicinity, shall be analyzed in advance of the preparation of
the preliminary plat.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
Previous to the filing of an application for conditional approval of the preliminary plat, the subdivider shall submit to the plat officer plans and data as specified in § 260-46. This step shall not require formal application or any fee for the filing of a plat with the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Within five working days after receipt of the plans and data required by § 260-12, the plat officer shall inform the subdivider that the plans and data, as submitted or as modified, do or do not meet the requirements of this chapter. When the plans and data do not meet such objectives, the plat officer shall state the reasons in writing and deliver a copy to the subdivider.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
Twenty copies of the preliminary plat and supplementary material specified in §§ 260-47, 260-48 and 260-49 shall be submitted to the Zoning Board of Appeals with a written application for the conditional approval of the preliminary plat at least five working days prior to the meeting at which it is to be considered.
Following review by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the preliminary
plat and supplementary material submitted for conformity thereof to
this chapter, and negotiations with the subdivider on changes deemed
advisable and the kind and extent of improvement to be made by the
subdivider, the City Council shall express its conditional approval
and state the conditions of such approval, if any, or, if disapproved,
shall express its disapproval and its reasons in writing and deliver
a copy of such reasons to the subdivider.
The action of the City Council shall approve or disapprove the
preliminary plat within 90 days from the date of application, and
such action shall be noted on two copies of the preliminary plat,
to which shall be attached any conditions required. One copy shall
be returned to the subdivider and the other retained by the City Council.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
Conditional approval of the preliminary plat shall be construed
to be an expression of approval of the general layout submitted as
a guide to the preparation of construction plans for required public
improvements, if any, the final plat of subdivision and to be assurance
to the subdivider that the final plat will be approved if it conforms
to the terms of the conditionally approved preliminary plat.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
The application for preliminary plat approval shall be accompanied
by a check or money order in the amount set forth in the fee schedule;
and such amount shall be paid to the general corporate fund of the
City.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
Within one year after conditional approval of the preliminary
plat, or such additional time as the City Council may designate, the
subdivider may submit an intended final plat of the subdivision and
two reproductions thereof to the plat officer, including construction
plans for any required public improvements.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
The final plat and required public improvement construction
plans shall conform to the preliminary plat, as approved, and they
may constitute only that portion of the approved preliminary plat
which the subdivider proposes to record and develop at the time; provided,
however, that such portion conforms to all requirements of this chapter.
Final approval of a final plat shall be granted by the plat officer on the basis of its conformity with the preliminary plat, as approved, and with all pertinent laws, rules, regulations and particularly with the technical requirements of Articles V and VI of this chapter and with the Comprehensive Plan of the City.
In the event only a portion of the approved preliminary plat
is presented for final approval, the plat officer may notify the subdivider
in writing whether or not the preliminary approval of the unrecorded
portion has been renewed for one year. In the absence of such written
notification, the subdivider may, within one year, apply to the Zoning
Board of Appeals for extension of the conditional approval of the
preliminary plat without being required to pay additional fees.
Within 60 days after the approval of the final plat by the plat
officer, said plat shall be filed with the County Recorder of the
county and, if not so filed, shall have no validity and shall not
be recorded without recertification by the plat officer. All plats
(original tracings of said plats), after being recorded, shall become
the property of the county. One reproducible copy and four black-
or blue-line prints of the final plat shall be filed with the plat
officer. At the time of filing with the County Recorder, the plat
officer shall keep a record copy of such final plats.
[Amended 1976 by Ord. No. 472]
A.
Any parcel of land may be divided into two parts, either of which
part is less than five acres, for the purpose of ownership transfer
or building development by recording with the County Recorder an adequate
boundary map made thereof by a licensed Illinois land surveyor; provided,
however, that such division does not create the need for dedicated
easements for access or utility extensions of any kind, or the physical
extension and construction of public utilities or services.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
B.
Such boundary map shall bear a certification of the County Clerk
that there are no delinquent or unpaid general taxes and/or special
assessments against the lands described on the boundary map.
C.
The boundary map shall bear the signature of the plat officer and
shall be drawn with waterproof, nonfading black ink on tracing cloth
or good-quality tracing paper meeting the minimum and maximum size
requirements for document recording of the County Recorder of Deeds.
[Amended 2-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 994]
D.
No such boundary map shall be entitled to record or have validity
until it has been signed by the plat officer. The plat officer shall
keep a record and copy of such boundary maps.
E.
After one such boundary map dividing a tract of land in one ownership
at the time of passage of the ordinance codified in this chapter has
been signed by the plat officer, he shall not sign another boundary
map dividing said land. Further division of said land shall be recorded
only by means of a map or plat of subdivision, as provided in this
chapter, which map or plat of subdivision shall include the parcel
previously divided off by boundary map.
