[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]
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The purposes of this Chapter are:
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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;
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To provide minimum requirements for the preliminary and final plats;
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To provide for minimum standards of physical improvements in new subdivisions;
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To provide for adequate open space for traffic, recreation, light and air; and
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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:
ALLEY
A passage or way affording generally a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation.
BOARD
The Board of Aldermen of Camdenton.
CITY
The City of Camdenton, Missouri.
CITY PLAN
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.
CUL-DE-SAC
A short street having one (1) end open to traffic and being terminated at the other end by a vehicular turn-around.
EASEMENT
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.
LOT
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.
OPEN SPACE
PUBLIC
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.
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
The Camdenton Planning and Zoning Commission.
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE
The City Administrator of the City of Camdenton for matters pertaining to the subdivision of land.
ROADWAY WIDTH OR SURFACE WIDTH
That portion of any street designated for vehicular traffic and, where curbs are laid, that portion of the street between the curbs.
STREETS
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:
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Major streets and highways are those which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic.
2. 
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.
3. 
Local and minor streets are those used primarily to provide direct access to individual lots and for local traffic movements.
SUBDIVISION
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.
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR
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.
SUBDIVISION, MINOR
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.
THOROUGHFARE
A major street.
THOROUGHFARE - PRIMARY, SECONDARY
A major street so designated in the official thoroughfare plan.
ZONING ORDINANCE
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]
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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]
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Subdivisions shall be classified as either minor or major in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
B. 
Classifications of subdivisions shall be made by the Zoning Inspector in accordance with these provisions and the definitions as outlined in Article I, Section 405.020.
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.