(a) General Suitability of Land for Development. If the Planning Commission and the Village Council find that land proposed to be subdivided is unsuitable for subdivision development due to flooding, poor drainage, topography or inadequate water supply, wastewater treatment facilities, transportation facilities, or such other conditions as may endanger health, life or property, and if, from investigations conducted by the public agencies concerned, it is determined that, in the best interest of the public, the land should not be developed for the subdivision proposed, the Planning Commission and the Village Council shall not approve the land for the proposed subdivision unless adequate methods are advanced by the applicant for solving the problems that will be created by the development of the land.
(b) Projection of Improvements. Where adjoining areas are not subdivided or developed, the arrangement of streets and utilities in new subdivisions shall make provision for the proper projection of streets (i.e., provide for temporary dead-end streets and utilities where street connections can be made to the adjacent land) as required by the Zoning Administrator. Such arrangements shall be made to the subdivision boundary or up to the edge of the phase of buildable lots.
(c) Topography, Floodplain Areas, Wetlands, and Natural Areas.
(1) Natural amenities (including views, mature trees, creeks, riparian corridors, rock outcrops, and similar features) shall be preserved and incorporated into proposed development to the greatest extent feasible.
(2) All subdivisions of land and installation of public improvements involving areas subject to flooding, as defined by National Flood Insurance Program Maps and Data, shall conform to all applicable floodplain regulations and the requirements of adopted regulations involving the Village's participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.
(3) Land which is determined by the Village to be unsuitable for subdivision or development due to flooding, the presence of Federal Jurisdiction Wetlands, or other features which will reasonably be harmful to the safety, health and general welfare of the present or future inhabitants of the subdivision and/or its surrounding areas shall not be subdivided or developed unless methods adequate to resolve the problems are formulated by the applicant and approved by the Planning Commission and upon advice of the Zoning Administrator.
(4) The natural topography shall be retained wherever possible in order to reduce excessive runoff onto adjoining property and to avoid extensive regrading of the site.
(d) Inspection Fees. The applicant shall provide all necessary engineering and surveying services for preparing the plat and improvement plans. The Village will inspect the installation of improvements and private utilities. The applicant shall reimburse the Village the actual cost of these inspections before the plat is placed upon a Planning Commission agenda.
(e) Debris and Waste. No cut trees, diseased trees, timber, debris, earth, rocks, stones, soil, junk, rubbish or other waste materials of any kind shall be buried in any land, or left or deposited on any lot or street at the time of the issuance of a zoning certificate. No items and materials as described in the preceding sentence shall be left or deposited in any area of the subdivision at the time public improvements are accepted by the Village.
(f) Monuments and Markers.
(1) Monuments and monument boxes shall be installed at the intersection of all centerlines of all streets, points of curvature and points of tangency on all curves.
(2) Property pins shall be set at all lot corners, points of tangency and points of curvature.
(3) Steel rods shall be used for property pins permanently installed that comply with the State of Ohio's requirements.
(4) Monuments and lot corner markers shall be of a design approved by the Zoning Administrator and meeting State of Ohio Minimum Standards for Boundary Surveys.
(Ord. 2023-16. Passed 6-5-23.)