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(A) The developer shall, for all major subdivisions, agree to complete all improvements in accordance with these regulations or such other improvements as the city and/or Commission may require in the public interest as a prerequisite to approval of the final plan.
(B) No plan shall receive final plan approval by the Commission unless the developer shall have completed all such improvements and the standards required by these regulations or shall have filed with
the city by performance bond, certified check, letter from a financial institution guaranteeing the completion of improvements, or other acceptable performance assurance. All such assurances shall be approved by City Council.
(C) The city may require their Engineer to check final construction plans for the correctness and to inspect the construction of improvements. If the city decides that the developer pays for the engineering, the developer shall, prior to approval of the final plan, agree to pay for any such checking and inspection at a current schedule of fees as shall be mutually agreed upon between the developer and the Engineer selected.
(D) Upon completion of the improvements in accordance with the specifications of the city and these regulations, the developer shall take the final steps to dedicate the improvements and have the same accepted by the city.
(E) Improvements shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:
(1) Monuments or markers;
(2) Grading and streets;
(3) Curbs and walks (if required);
(4) Sewers or on-lot disposal units;
(5) Water service or on-lot water supplies;
(6) Storm drainage as required; and
(7) Erosion and sedimentation control measurers.
(F) Where grading conditions or other circumstances prohibit the placing of lot markers or street monuments at the time of submission of final plat, a cash deposit shall be made with the city in an amount sufficient to cover the installation of such monumentation at a future date. Should installation of the above monuments and markers not be completed within three months after completion date of subdivision by the subdivider, the city shall cause such installation to be completed and pay therefore from cash deposits.
(Ord. 1286, passed 6-7-1982)
(A) An assurance of proper completion of the improvements in the subdivision shall be made by one of the following methods, or such other method as shall be satisfactory to the Commission and the City Counci1.
(1) A certificate from the developer and signed by the city, that all improvements and installation in the subdivision required by these regulations have been made or installed in accordance with specifications;
(2) A certificate from the developer and signed by the city that a bond, a certified check, or other security satisfactory to City Council has been filed with the city; or
(3) (a) The Commission shall require a bond, certified check, or other security satisfactory to City Council and the Commission which shall:
1. Run or be made payable to the city; and
2. Be in the amount determined by the city and Commission to be sufficient to complete the improvements and installations in compliance with these regulations.
(b) In the case of a bond, it shall also:
1. Be with surety satisfactory to the city; and
2. Be in form, sufficiency and execution acceptable to the city.
(B) The bond, certified check or other securities shall specify the time for the completion of the required improvements. Such time shall be satisfactory to the city and Commission. When the improvements have been completed and approval by the city and Commission, the guarantee shall be released and returned. When a portion of the required improvements has been completed and approved by the city and Commission, a portion of the bond, monies or security commensurate with the cost of the improvements may be released and returned.
(C) In the event that cash or its equivalent is deposited as an improvement guarantee, it shall be held in an escrow fund, which may bear interest to the credit of the developer, but the developer shall pay all costs for the maintaining of such escrow fund. All interest earned shall remain in the escrow account until such time the work is satisfactorily completed.
(Ord. 1286, passed 6-7-1982)
DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
(A) It is the policy of the city that these regulations shall state minimum standards for development in the city. Whenever the city in its zoning, building codes, sign ordinances, road ordinances, or other ordinances, resolutions, or regulations require standards that exceed these minimum standards, other city standards shall apply. Also, whenever the County Health Department or state or federal law shall require lot sizes larger than those required herein, their regulations shall prevail. Should the standards of these subdivision regulations exceed those of the city zoning ordinance, the standards of these regulations shall apply.
(B) The following requirements and guiding principles for land subdivision shall be observed by all developers, and the Commission shall consider the suitability as to location of any proposed subdivision with respect to the following:
(1) (a) Land subject to severe flooding (identified by current flood zone maps of the Department of Housing and Urban Development) and land if deemed for specific reasons as may have developed in the planning process by the Commission to be uninhabitable for other reasons shall not be platted for residential occupancy nor for other such uses as may increase danger to health, life, or property or aggravate the flood hazard but such land within a plan shall be set aside for such uses as will not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation.
(b) Any development in areas considered by the Commission as habitable yet subject to periodic or occasional innundation shall comply with the regulations and standards as established under § 154.103 and any other federal, state, or local regulations concerning such development of flood plains.
(2) The subdivision plan shall conform to such municipal maps or plans or such parts thereof as shall have been prepared by the Commission of city agencies and approved by the city.
(3) No subdivision showing reserve strips controlling the access to public ways will be approved, except where the control and disposal of the land comprising such strips are definitely placed within the jurisdiction of the municipality.
(4) Lot lines shall, where possible, follow municipal and county boundary lines rather than cross them.
(5) The availability of drinking water and sewage disposal shall be a prime consideration for the size and configuration of development.
(Ord. 1286, passed 6-7-1982)
PLAN REQUIREMENTS
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