CHAPTER 154: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
Section
   154.01   Purpose, authority and jurisdiction
   154.02   Definitions
   154.03   Advisory meeting with Planning Commission
   154.04   General requirements and minimum standards of design
   154.05   Preliminary plat approval
   154.06   Development prerequisite to final approval
   154.07   Final plat approval
   154.08   Variances
   154.09   Enforcement
 
   154.99   Penalty
§ 154.01 PURPOSE, AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION.
   (A)   Purpose.
      (1)   Land subdivision is the first step in the process of community development. Once land has been segmented into streets, lots and blocks, and publicly recorded, the correction of defects is costly and difficult. Subdivision of land sooner or later becomes a public responsibility, in that, roads and streets must be maintained and various public services customary to urban areas must be provided. The welfare and tax burden of the entire community is thereby affected in any important respects. It is therefore to the interest of the public, the developer and the future owners that subdivisions be conceived, designed and developed in accordance with sound rules and proper minimum standards.
      (2)   The following subdivisions regulations guiding the Planning and Zoning Commission are designed to provide for the harmonious development of the planning region; to secure a coordinated layout and adequate provision for traffic and also to secure adequate provision for light, air, recreation, transportation, water, drainage, sewer and other sanitary facilities.
   (B)   Authority. These subdivision standards are adopted under the authority granted by the KRS Chapter 100. The City Planning and Zoning Commission, which was established in accordance with the KRS Chapter 100, has fulfilled the requirements set forth in the applicable sections of Kentucky Revised Statutes as prerequisites for the adoption of the regulations.
   (C)   Jurisdiction. These regulations shall govern all subdivision of land within the corporate limits of the city, as now or hereafter established and additionally, the subdivision control jurisdiction of the city subdivision regulations shall apply within the area within a one mile radius of the city limit boundary nearest the appropriate development. Any owner of land within this area who wishes to subdivide the land or a portion thereof shall submit a plat of the proposed subdivision to the City Planning and Zoning Commission according to the requirements set forth in these regulations.
(2000 Code, App. A, Art. I)
§ 154.02 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, which shall be known as and which may be cited as "Subdivision Regulations of Campbellsville, Kentucky", the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ACCESS. Provision for, or means of vehicular entrance to or exit from, a street:
      (1)   Limited access is access only at specified intervals provided for in the design of a street, usually an interchange; and/or
      (2)   Controlled ACCESS is access at points to be designated by the Planning Commission as to type, number and location along a street.
   DEVELOPMENT PLAN. Written and graphic material for the provision of a development, including any or all of the following: location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of use, density of development, streets, ways, parking facilities, signs, drainage of surface water, access points, a plan for screening or buffering, utilities, existing human-made and natural conditions, and all other conditions agreed to by the applicant.
   STREET. A way set aside for vehicular traffic whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, pike, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, drive, court or otherwise designated.
      (1)   ALLEYS. Minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the backs or to the sides of properties which otherwise abut on streets.
      (2)   ARTERIAL STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. Those designed or utilized primarily for high vehicular speeds or for heavy volumes of traffic.
      (3)   COLLECTOR STREETS. Those which carry or will carry intermediate volumes of traffic from minor streets to arterial streets.
      (4)   MARGINAL ACCESS STREETS. Minor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which serve to reduce the number of access points to the arterial streets and thereby increase traffic safety.
      (5)   MINOR STREETS. Those which are used or will be used primarily for access to abutting properties and which carry or will carry limited volumes of traffic.
   SUBDIVIDER. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, estate or other group or combination acting as a unit dividing or proposing to divide land in a manner that constitutes a subdivision as defined herein. The term SUBDIVIDER shall include any agent of any subdivider.
   SUBDIVISION.
      (1)   The division of a parcel of land into two or more lots or parcels; for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, lease or building development, or if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land; provided that a division of land for agricultural use and not involving a new street shall not be deemed a SUBDIVISION.
      (2)   The term includes RESUBDIVISION, and when subdivision or to the land subdivided; any division or redivision of land into parcels of less than one acre occurring within 12 months following a division of the same land shall be deemed a SUBDIVISION within the meaning of this section.
(2000 Code, App. A, Art. I)
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