[R.O. 1992 § 410.015; Ord. No. 16-11557, 8-15-2016, effective 3-1-2017]
A. 
Conformance With Rules And Regulations.
1. 
All proposed subdivisions shall conform to the following laws, rules and regulations:
a. 
The approved Comprehensive Plan or update thereafter;
b. 
City of Washington Zoning Ordinance and Building Codes, as applicable;[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 400, Zoning, and Ch. 500, Building Code.
c. 
Other standards and regulations adopted by the City Council or by other applicable boards, commissions, agencies, or departments of the City of Washington;
d. 
Established goals, objectives and policies of the City Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission; and
e. 
Applicable standards or regulations of other federal, state, county or regional agencies.
2. 
Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, any plat for the sale or exchange of parcels of land between owners of adjoining properties for the purpose of adjustments in boundaries shall be submitted to the City Council for approval and shall not be required to be first submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission, provided that additional lots are not thereby created, that the original lots are not reduced below the minimum size required by this Chapter or the Zoning Code of the City of Washington, Missouri, and that the plats otherwise comply with the requirements of this Chapter.
B. 
Enforcement.
1. 
Recording Of Plat. No property description of any subdivision shall be entitled to be recorded in the Franklin County Recorder of Deed's Office or have any validity until it shall have been approved in the manner prescribed herein. In the event any such unapproved property description is recorded, it shall be considered invalid, and the City Attorney may cause proceedings to be instituted to have such plat or deed declared invalid.
2. 
Sale Of Land In Subdivision. No owner or agent of the owner of any land shall transfer, sell, offer, or agree to sell any land by reference to, exhibition of, or by use of a property description, nor shall any person purchase such land or agree to buy such land before such property description has been approved and recorded in accordance with these regulations.
3. 
Permits. The City Engineer, or any authorized representative of the City, shall not issue permits for any structure except where a property description has been approved in the manner prescribed herein. Except as provided herein in Section 410.055, the City Engineer, or any authorized representative of the City, shall not issue permits for construction of any structure except where waterlines, sewer lines and streets have been constructed adjacent to or across land upon which the structure is to be constructed or financial assurances have been given to assure construction of waterlines, sewer lines and streets.
4. 
Public Improvements. The City and its boards, commissions, and agents shall withhold all public improvements of whatever nature, including the furnishing or maintenance of streets, utilities and sewage facilities from all subdivisions subject to this Chapter which have not been approved, and from all areas dedicated to the public which have not been accepted by the City Council, in the manner prescribed herein.
5. 
Revision Of Plat After Approval. No changes, erasures, modifications or revisions shall be made in any final plat of a subdivision or in any metes and bounds description after final approval has been given under the provisions of these regulations.
6. 
Severability. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City of Washington that the provisions of this Chapter are severable. If any element of this Chapter is declared invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not affect or impair the integrity or validity of the remainder of this Chapter or its application to other persons, property or circumstances. The City Council of the City of Washington declares that the portions of this Chapter not judged invalid would have been enacted even without the portions or applications held valid.
C. 
Misrepresentation As To Construction, Supervision Or Inspection Of Improvements. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning an addition or subdivision or subdivision of land within the City to represent that any improvements upon any of the streets, alleys, or avenues of that said addition or subdivision, or a sewer in said addition or subdivision has been constructed according to the plans and specifications approved by the City Engineer, or has been supervised or inspected by him/her, when such improvement is not so constructed, supervised or inspected.
[R.O. 1992 § 410.020; Ord. No. 16-11557, 8-15-2016, effective 3-1-2017]
A. 
General Statement. The provisions of Chapter 410, Section 410.010, shall apply, and, in addition, words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular number shall include the plural and the plural the singular; the word "building" shall include the word "structure," the word "shall" is mandatory; the word "may" is permissive.
B. 
Definitions. For the purpose of these regulations, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
ALLEY
A public or private right-of-way primarily designed to serve as secondary access to the side or rear of those properties whose principal frontage is on some other street.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shorelines of waterways, or boundary lines of municipalities.
BUILDING
Any structure built for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind, and includes any structure.
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which carries or is proposed to carry intermediate volumes of traffic from minor streets to major streets and which may or may not be continuous.
CULS-DE-SAC
A local access street with only one (1) outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his/her property.
FINAL PLAT
The map or plan or record of a subdivision and any accompanying material, as described in these regulations.
FRONTAGE
That side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the ordinary side of a corner lot.
FRONTAGE STREET
Any street to be constructed by the developer or any existing street in which development shall take place on both sides.
GRADE
The slope of a road, street or other public way, specified in percentage terms.
LOCAL ACCESS STREET
A street used primarily for access to abutting properties, providing for minimum speeds and traffic volumes.
LOT
A tract, plat or portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or for building development.
LOT IMPROVEMENT
Any building, structure, place, work of art, or other object or improvement of the land on which they are situated constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of such betterment. Certain lot improvements shall be properly bonded as provided in these regulations.
LOT, CORNER
A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) streets, the interior angle of such intersection not exceeding one hundred thirty-five degrees (135°).
MAJOR STREET
A street designed or utilized primarily for higher vehicular speeds or for heavy volumes of traffic on a continuous route, with intersections at grade, and which may have direct access to abutting properties, and on which geometric design and traffic-control measures are used to expedite the safe movement of through traffic.
OWNER
Any person, group of persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, or any other legal entity having legal title to or sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be subdivided under these regulations.
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT
A tract of land which is developed as a unit under single ownership or control and which includes two (2) or more main or principal structures.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
Any drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sideway, pedestrianway, tree, lawn, off-street parking area, lot improvement or other facility for which the City may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation of which may affect an improvement for which City responsibility is established. All such improvements shall be properly bonded.
REGISTERED ENGINEER
An engineer properly licensed and registered in the State of Missouri.
REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR
A land surveyor properly licensed and registered in the State of Missouri.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk, railroad, road, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, or for other special use. The usage of the term "right-of-way" for land-platting purposes shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a final plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way, and not included within the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels. Rights-of-way intended for streets, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm drains, or any other use involving maintenance by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the marker of the plat on which such right-of-way is established.
ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY WIDTH
The distance between property lines measured at right angles to the center line of the street.
SALE or LEASE
Any immediate or future transfer of ownership, including contract of sale or transfer, of an interest in a subdivision or part thereof, whether such transfer is of fee simple title or some lesser estate, including leasehold estate, and whether by metes and bounds, deed, contract, plat, map or other written instrument.
SETBACK
The distance between a building and the street line nearest thereto.
STRUCTURE
Any construction above or below ground.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person who:
a. 
Having an interest in land, causes it, directly or indirectly, to be divided into a subdivision; or
b. 
Directly or indirectly, sells, leases or develops or offers to sell, lease or develop, or advertises for sale, lease or development, any interest, lot, parcel, site, unit or plot in a subdivision; or
c. 
Engages directly or through an agent in the business of selling, leasing, developing or offering for sale, lease or development a subdivision or any interest, lot, parcel, site, unit or plat in a subdivision; and
d. 
Is directly or indirectly controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with any of the foregoing.
SUBDIVISION
Any land, improved or unimproved, or any portion thereof, shown on the last preceding tax roll as a unit or as contiguous units, which is divided into two (2) or more lots, plots, sites or other divisions of land for the purpose of offering for sale, lease or development, including resubdivision. "Subdivision" includes the division or development of residential and non-residential zoned land, including planned developments, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, map, plat or other recorded instrument and the dedication, opening or widening of any proposed or existing right-of-way for a public or private street.
SUBDIVISION PLAT
The final map or drawing, described in these regulations, on which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission for approval and which, if approved, may be submitted to the County Recorder of Deeds for filing.