(A) (1) Land subject to flooding as denoted in Caswell Beach's flood plain maps and land deemed by the Planning Board to be uninhabitable for other reasons including, but not limited to, slopes in excess of 25%, slumping soils, wetlands, habitats for endangered species, and historic/archeological sites, shall not be platted for residential occupancy, nor for such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property, or aggravated the flood hazard. Such land within a plan shall be set aside for such uses as will not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation, or will not produce unsatisfactory living conditions.
(2) Past records of flood levels shall be used to determine sufficient area from the centerline of streams to provide adequate protection from the most severe flood of record.
(B) Where land is subdivided into larger parcels than ordinary building lots, such parcels shall be arranged so as to allow for the opening of future streets and logical further subdivision.
(C) Where a proposed residential subdivision contains or is adjacent to a major highway, it shall be planned so as to avoid having lots fronting on the highway in such a manner as to derive their access from said highway, preferably by providing a marginal access street for these lots or by backing the lots to the highway.
(D) Where a proposed subdivision contains or is adjacent to a railroad right-of-way, it shall be planned so as to avoid having residential lots front on a street, which parallels and is adjacent to the railroad right-of-way.
(E) Subdivision showing reserve strips controlling access to public ways will not be approved except when the control and disposition of land comprising such strips is placed within the town's jurisdiction under conditions meeting the approval of the Subdivision Administrator.
(F) All subdivided land shall be part of a usable and numbered lot or it shall be reserved as permanent open space. All major subdivisions shall be required to reserve a minimum of 5% or more of the gross land area as permanent open space, subject to the review of the Planning Board.
(G) If the entire area shown on an approved preliminary plat is not to be recorded at the same time as one unit, but instead, sections or units of the entire subdivision are to be recorded at subsequent time intervals, then the unit boundaries shall be so designated as to permit each unit recorded to function independently of the unit to follow it in the proposed recording schedule of the subdivider. Temporary turnarounds shall be constructed by the developer, as required by the town, at the ends of streets, which are presently dead-end, but are planned as through streets when the adjacent unit ultimately recorded.
(H) Areas that have been used for disposal of solid waste shall not be subdivided unless tests by the Brunswick County Health Department, a structural engineer, and soils expert determine that the land is suitable for the purpose proposed.
(I) The names of the subdivision and street shall not duplicate nor closely approximate the names of any existing subdivision or streets within Caswell Beach or its extraterritorial jurisdiction. The Board of Commissioners has final say regarding names.
(Ord. passed 9-8-83; Am. Res. passed 4-8-10; Am. Ord. passed - -)