The purposes of this article are:
(1) 
To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the town.
(2) 
To promote and provide for the safe, orderly and healthy development of the town.
(3) 
To guide the future growth and development of the town in accordance with the comprehensive plan and thoroughfare plan.
(4) 
To ensure safety from fire, flood, and other danger, and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of population.
(5) 
To guide public and private development in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, wastewater, drainage and other public requirements and facilities.
(6) 
To provide for the circulation of traffic and pedestrians required for the beneficial use of land and buildings and to avoid congestion throughout the town.
(7) 
To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for platting to further the orderly layout and use of land to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of platted land.
(8) 
To prevent the pollution of streams, ponds and lakes; to ensure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table, and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources and enhance the stability and beauty of the community and the value of the land.
(9) 
To provide for open spaces through the most effective design and layout of the land.
(10) 
To remedy the problems associated with inappropriately platted lands, include premature subdivision, incomplete subdivision and scattered subdivision.
(Ordinance 2023-09 adopted 7/10/2023)
(a) 
Except as provided in article 10.03 of this chapter, any owner of land inside the corporate limits or the extraterritorial jurisdiction ("E.T.J.") of the town wishing to subdivide such land shall submit to the planning and zoning commission a plan of subdivision which conforms to the minimum requirements set forth in these regulations.
(b) 
No subdivision plat shall be filed or recorded and no lot in a subdivision inside corporate limits or the E.T.J. of the town shall be improved or sold until a final plat has been considered by the planning and zoning commission and approved by the town council.
(c) 
No building permit shall be issued for the erection of any building in the town or within the town's E.T.J. on any piece of property other than the original building site or resubdivided lot in a duly approved and recorded subdivision or on an approved building site in accordance with the zoning regulations, without the written approval of a plat by the town council in compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Ordinance 2023-09 adopted 7/10/2023)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any owner, or agent of any owner, to lay out, subdivide, or plat any land into lots and blocks with or without any easement or rights-of-way within the town or its E.T.J., or to sell or improve such property, which has not been first platted according to these regulations and rules of the planning and zoning commission.
(b) 
Any violation of any provision of this chapter outside the corporate limits of the town shall not constitute a misdemeanor under this chapter nor shall any fine provided for in this chapter be applicable to a violation within such extraterritorial jurisdiction, however, the town may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive relief and damages as allowed by law.
(c) 
No officer or employee of the town shall perform, or cause to be performed, any work upon any streets of any addition or subdivision within the town unless all requirements of these regulations have been complied with by the owner of the addition or subdivision.
(d) 
The town declares its policy to be that it will withhold improvements of any nature whatsoever, including issuance of building permits, until a final plat of the subdivision has been approved by the town council and filed with the county clerk. No improvements shall be initiated nor any contracts executed until written approval has been obtained by the subdivider.
(Ordinance 2023-09 adopted 7/10/2023)