Subdividers shall file four copies of every subdivision plat which is intended for recording, which plat shall be prepared by a certified professional engineer or licensed land surveyor, who shall endorse upon each such plat a certificate signed by him 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 title; when the plat is of land acquired from more than one source of title, the outlines of the several tracts shall be indicated upon such plat; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit the preparation of preliminary studies, plans or plats of a proposed subdivision by the owner of the land, urban planners, land planners, architects, landscape architects or others having training or experience in subdivision planning and design. No final plat of any subdivision requiring a special exception shall be recorded unless and until it shall have been approved by the governing body in the form of granting such special exception as provided for in Chapter
170, Zoning, of the Code of Rappahannock County.
The Commission shall render a recommendation
on the final plat within 60 days after filing of said plat.
The governing body retains unto itself the authority
of final approval of final plats, which authority it may delegate
to its agent. The Commission's recommendations on each final plat
shall be considered. The governing body or its agent shall indicate
approval or disapproval of all subdivision plats received for consideration
as final plats within 60 days of filing of the same.
The subdivision plats submitted for final approval by the governing body or the agent and subsequent recording shall be clearly and legibly drawn in ink upon tracing cloth at a scale of 100 feet to the inch on sheets having a size of nine by fifteen (9 x 15) inches. All final plat requirements are subject to any requirements contained in the Chapter
170, Zoning, of the Code of Rappahannock County as may apply. In addition to the requirements of the preliminary plat and those outlined elsewhere in this chapter, the final plat shall include, as a minimum:
A. The name of the subdivision, magisterial district,
County, state, owner(s), true North point, scale of drawing and number
of sheets. If shown on more than one sheet, match lines shall clearly
indicate where the several sheets join. A blank oblong space at least
three by five (3 x 5) inches shall be reserved for the use of the
approving authority.
B. The boundary lines of the area being subdivided, to
be determined by an accurate field survey, with bearings shown in
degrees, minutes and seconds to the nearest 10 seconds and dimensions
to be shown in feet to the nearest hundredth of a foot to the accuracy
of one in 10,000 relative to the true meridian. Total acres in each
proposed use, including floodplain, shall be delineated.
C. The accurate location and dimensions by bearings and
distances, with all curve data on all lots and street lines and center
lines of streets; the boundaries of all proposed or existing easements,
parks, school sites or other public areas; the number and area of
all building sites; all existing public and private streets, their
names, numbers and widths; existing utilities and those to be provided,
such as sanitary sewers, storm drains, water mains, manholes and underground
conduits, including their size and type; watercourses and their names;
and the names of the owners and their property lines, both within
the boundary of the subdivision and adjoining said boundaries. All
plats containing streets to be dedicated to public use shall be accompanied
by a certification from the VDOT Resident Engineer that all highway
specifications have been met.
D. Certificates signed by the surveyor or engineer, setting
forth the source of the title of the owners of the land subdivided
and the place of record of the last instrument(s) in the chain of
title.
E. When the subdivision consists of land acquired from
more than one source of title and the outlines of the various tracts
shall be indicated by dashlines, identification of the respective
tracts shall be placed on the plat.
F. The location and material of all permanent reference
monuments.
G. The data of all curves along the street frontage,
to be shown in detail at the curve or in a curve data table containing
the following: delta, radius, arc, tangent, chord and chord bearings.
H. The date and North point.
I. Private restrictions and their period of existence.
Should these restrictions be of such length as to make their enumeration
on the plat impractical and do not necessitate the preparation of
a separate instrument, reference shall be made thereto on the plat.