A. The Planning Commission may recommend and the City Council may require such changes or revisions as deemed necessary for the health, safety, general welfare and convenience of the City. The City Council may deny a subdivision application if it has been determined that the property does not comply with the requirements of this ordinance, is not consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, or is not consistent with the Zoning Ordinance or other parts of the City Code.
B. Approval of a preliminary plat by the City Council means that the general layout of the plat is acceptable. Subsequent approval will be required of the engineering proposals, pertaining to water supply, storm drainage, and sewage disposal, sidewalks, gas and electric service, minimum finished floor elevations, minimum finished grade elevations, grading, stormwater management, gradients and roadway widths and surfacing of streets.
C. The approval of a preliminary plat shall be null and void unless a final plat or plats, that is prepared in accordance with the conditions of the preliminary plat approval that was granted by the City Council, is submitted to the Zoning Administrator one year from the date of the last required approval of the preliminary plat.
D. No plan will be approved for a subdivision which covers an area subject to periodic flooding or which has a relatively high water table (evidenced by water or mottled soil) or which contains extremely poor drainage facilities and which would make adequate drainage of the streets and lots impossible, unless the applicant agrees to make improvements which will, in the opinion of the City Engineer, make the area completely safe for occupancy, and provide adequate street and lot drainage.
E. No lot, parcel or tract of resubdivision land shall be subdivided by the proposed plat boundary to create a residue parcel of metes-and-bounds description lying outside the proposed plat boundary.
F. If the preliminary plat is not approved by the City Council, the reasons for such action shall be recorded in the proceedings of the City Council and transmitted in writing to the applicant, together with notification to the applicant that he/she has thirty days from the date of the City Council's decision to apply for an extension of time in which to correct the preliminary plat.
[§8-502, amended by Ord. No. 89-3, effective April 21, 1989, Ord. No. 92-2, effective April 17, 1992, Ord. No. 93-8, effective October 7, 1994, and Ord. No. 01-08, effective January 17, 2002, amended by Ord. No. 07-02, effective March 1, 2007.]