§ 6.01 
General subdivision information shall describe or outline the existing conditions of the site and the proposed development as necessary to supplement the drawings required below. This information may include data on existing covenants, land characteristics, and available community facilities and utilities; and information describing the subdivision proposal such as number of residential lots, typical lot width and depth, business areas, playgrounds, park areas, and other public areas, proposed protective covenants and proposed utilities and street improvements.
§ 6.02 
Sketch plan on topographic or aerial survey shall show in simple sketch form the proposed layout of streets, lots, and other features in relation to existing conditions. The sketch plan may be a free hand pencil sketch made directly on a print of the topographic survey. In any event, the sketch plan shall include sufficient information to permit reasonably accurate advice by the Planning Department.
§ 6.11 
Data required as a basis for the preliminary plat in § 6.12 shall include any or all existing conditions as follows, when specified by the Planning Commission.
(1) 
Boundary lines: bearings and distances of tract.
(2) 
Easements: location, width, and purpose.
(3) 
Streets on and adjacent to the tract: name and right-of-way width and location; type, width and elevation of surfacing; any legally established center line elevations; walks, curbs, gutters, culverts, etc.
(4) 
Utilities on and adjacent to the tract: location, size, and invert elevation of sanitary and storm sewers; location and size of water mains; location of fire hydrants; if water mains and sewers are not on or adjacent to the tract, indicate the direction and distance to, and size of nearest ones, showing invert elevation of sewers. The City shall provide such data and recommendations as may be pertinent to this requirement.
(5) 
Ground elevations on the tract: based on a datum plan approved by the City Engineer: for land that slopes less than approximately 2% show spot elevations at all breaks in grade, along all drainage channels or swales, and at selected points not more than 100 feet apart in all directions; contours with an interval of not more than two feet shall be shown for all lands on a plan with a scale of 200 feet per inch or larger.
(6) 
Subsurface conditions on the tract, if required by the Health Officer: location and results of at least one test per acre made to ascertain subsurface soil, rock and groundwater conditions, depth to groundwater unless test pits are dry at a depth of eight feet; location and results of soil percolation tests if individual sewage disposal systems are proposed.
(7) 
Other conditions on the tract: watercourse, marshes, rock outcrop, wooded areas, isolated preservable trees one foot or more in diameter, houses, barns, shacks, and other significant features.
(8) 
Title and certificates: present tract designation according to official records in office of County Register of Deeds; title under which proposed subdivision is to be recorded, with names and addresses of owners, notation stating acreage, scale, north arrow, datum, benchmarks, certification of registered civil engineer or surveyor, date of survey.
§ 6.12 
Preliminary plat shall be at a scale of 200 feet to one inch or larger (preferred scale of 100 feet to one inch). It shall show all existing conditions required above in § 6.11, and shall show all proposals including the following:
(1) 
Streets: names; right-of-way and roadway widths; approximate grades and gradients; similar data for alleys, if any.
(2) 
Other rights-of-way or easements: location, width and purpose.
(3) 
Location of sewer and water facilities and fire hydrants, if not shown on other exhibits.
(4) 
Lot lines and lot numbers.
(5) 
Sites, if any, to be reserved or dedicated for parks, playgrounds, or other public uses.
(6) 
Sites, if any, for multifamily dwellings, shopping centers, churches, industry or other nonpublic uses exclusive of single-family dwellings.
(7) 
Site data, including total acres, number of lots, typical lot dimensions and area, lineal feet in streets, acres in streets, parks, etc.
(8) 
Title, scale, north arrow and date.
§ 6.13 
Other preliminary plans. When required by the Planning Commission, the preliminary plat shall be accompanied by profiles showing existing ground surface and proposed street grades, including extensions for a reasonable distance beyond the limits of the proposed subdivision; typical cross sections of the proposed grading, roadway and sidewalk; and preliminary plan of proposed sanitary and stormwater sewers with grades and sizes indicated. All elevations shall be based on a datum plane approved by the City Engineer.
§ 6.21 
Final plat shall be drawn in ink on tracing cloth on sheets 18 inches wide by 24 inches long and shall be at a scale of 100 feet to one inch or larger. Where necessary, the plat may be on several sheets accompanied by an index sheet showing the entire subdivision. For large subdivisions the final plat may be submitted for approval progressively in contiguous sections satisfactory to the Planning Commission. The final plat shall show the following:
(1) 
Primary control points, approved by the City Engineer, or descriptions and "ties" to such control points, to which all dimensions, angles, bearings, and similar data on the plat shall be referred.
(2) 
Tract boundary lines, right-of-way lines of streets, easements and other rights-of-way, and property lines of residential lots and other sites; with accurate dimensions, bearings or deflection angles, and radii, arcs, and central angles of all curves.
(3) 
Name and right-of-way width of each street or other right-of-way.
(4) 
Location, dimensions and purpose of any easements.
(5) 
Number to identify each lot or site.
(6) 
Purpose for which sites, other than residential lots, are dedicated or reserved.
(7) 
Minimum building setback line on all lots and other sites.
(8) 
Location and description of monuments.
(9) 
Names of record owners of adjoining unplatted land.
(10) 
Reference to recorded subdivision plats of adjoining platted land by record name, date and number.
(11) 
Certification by surveyor or engineer certifying to accuracy of survey and plat.
(12) 
Certification of title showing that applicant is the landowner. Said certification shall be in the form of either an attorney's opinion or title insurance.
(13) 
Statement by owner dedicating streets, rights-of-way and any sites for public uses.
(14) 
Certification by the City Treasurer and the County Treasurer showing that all taxes and assessments have been paid.
(15) 
Title, scale, north arrow, and date.
§ 6.22 
Cross sections and profiles of streets showing grades approved by the City Engineer. The profiles shall be drawn to city standard scales and elevations and shall be based on a datum plane approved by the City Engineer.
§ 6.23 
A certificate by the City Engineer certifying that the subdivider has complied with one of the following alternatives:
(1) 
All improvements have been installed in accord with the requirements of these regulations and with the action of the Planning Commission giving Conditional Approval of the preliminary plat, or
(2) 
A bond or certified check has been posted, which is available to the City of Kalamazoo, and in sufficient amount to assure such completion of all required improvements within two years after approval of the final plat.
§ 6.24 
Other data: Such other certificates, affidavits, endorsements, or deductions as may be required by the Planning Commission in the enforcement of these regulations.