Sketch plans submitted to the Commission, prepared in pen or pencil, shall be drawn to a convenient scale of not more than 100 feet to an inch and shall show the following information (see Figure 6-1).
(1) Name.
(a) Name of subdivision if property is within an existing subdivision;
(b) Proposed name, if not within a previously platted subdivision. The proposed name shall not duplicate the name of any subdivision plat previously recorded nor for which primary approval is still in effect; and
(c) Name of property if no subdivision name has been chosen (this is commonly the name by which the property is locally known).
(2) Ownership.
(a) Name and address, including telephone number, of legal owner or agent of property and citation of last instrument conveying title to each parcel of property involved in the proposed subdivision, giving grantor, grantee, date and land records reference;
(b) Citation of any existing legal rights-of-way or easements affecting the property;
(c) A complete copy of any existing covenants on the property; and
(d) Name and address, including telephone number, of the professional person(s) responsible for subdivision design, for the design of the public improvements and for surveys.
(3) Description. Location of property, name of local jurisdiction, lot, section, township, range and county, graphic, scale, north arrow and date.
(4) Features to be included on sketch plans.
(a) Location of property lines, existing easements, burial grounds, railroad rights-of-way, watercourses and existing wooded areas, location, width and names of all existing or platted streets or other public ways within or immediately adjacent to the tract, names of adjacent and adjoining property owners;
(b) Location, sizes, elevations and slopes of existing sewers, water mains, culverts and other underground structures within the tract and immediately adjacent thereto; existing permanent buildings and utility poles on or immediately adjacent to the site and utility rights-of-way;
(c) Approximate topography, at the same scale as the sketch plan (normally showing two-foot contour intervals, but the Administrator may require one-foot intervals on very flat land or permit five-foot intervals on very steep slopes);
(d) The approximate location and widths of proposed streets;
(e) Preliminary proposals for connection with existing water supply and sanitary sewage systems or alternative means of providing water supply and sanitary waste treatment and disposal; preliminary provisions for collecting and discharging surface water drainage;
(f) The approximate location, dimensions and areas of all proposed of existing lots;
(g) The approximate location, dimensions and areas of all parcels of land proposed to be set aside for park or playground use or other public use or for the use of property owners in the proposed subdivision;
(h) The location of temporary stakes to enable the Commission to find and appraise features of the sketch plan in the field;
(i) Whenever the sketch plan covers only a part of an applicant’s contiguous holdings, the applicant shall submit, at the scale of no more than 200 feet to the inch, a sketch in pen or pencil of the proposed subdivision area, together with its proposed street system and an indication of the probable future street and drainage system of the remaining portion of the tract;
(j) A vicinity map showing street and other general development of the surrounding area; and
(k) If the subdivision is classified as a minor subdivision, the sketch plan must also comply with § 6.2.