(a) Utility Easements. The Village Board, on the recommendation of appropriate departments, utilities and agencies serving the Village, shall require utility easements for poles, sanitary sewer, wire communications conduits, storm sewers, gas, water and head mains or other utility lines. It is the intent of this Chapter to protect all established easements so as to assure proper grade, assure maintenance of the established grade, prohibit construction of permanent fences or retaining walls over underground installation and prevent the planting of trees in the easement area.
(b) Natural Resource Features Protection/Mitigation, Conservation, Landscape Bufferyard, and Utility Easements Required. The Village, upon the recommendation of the Plan Commission, shall require natural resource features protection/mitigation, conservation, landscape bufferyard, and utility easements of widths deemed adequate for the intended purpose on each side of all rear lot lines and on side lot lines or across lots where necessary or advisable for natural resource feature protection, landscape bufferyards, electric power and communication lines, wires, conduits, storm and sanitary sewers, and gas, water, and other utility lines.
(c) Subdivision, Certified Survey Map, or Condominium Plat Traversed by Watercourse, Drainageway Channel, or Stream. Where a Subdivision, Certified Survey Map, or Condominium Plat is traversed by a watercourse, drainageway channel, or stream, an adequate drainageway or easement shall be provided as required by the Village Board, upon the recommendation of the Plan Commission. The location, width, alignment, and improvement of such drainageway or easement shall be subject to the approval of the Village Board, upon the recommendation of the Plan Commission, and parallel streets or parkways may be required in connection therewith. Where necessary, stormwater drainage shall be maintained by landscaped open channels of adequate size and grade to hydraulically accommodate maximum potential volumes of flow. These design details are subject to review and approval by the Village Engineer.
(d) Easement Locations.
(1) Such easements shall be at least fifteen (15) feet wide, or wider where recommended by the Village Engineer, and may run across lots or alongside of rear or side lot lines. Evidence shall be furnished the Village Board that easements and any easement provisions to be incorporated in the plat or in deeds have been reviewed by the individual utility companies or the organization responsible for furnishing the services involved.
(2) All easements dedicated on final plat or certified survey maps for survey maps for poles, cables or conduits for electricity, telephone or other private utility lines shall be noted thereon as "Utility Easement". All easements for storm and sanitary sewers, water and force mains, pedestrian walks and other public purposes shall be noted thereon as "Public Easement for" followed by reference to the use or uses for which they are intended.
(e) Deed Restrictions for Easements. Deed restrictions shall accompany each final plat or certified survey map, and shall be filed in the Register of Deeds office. In addition to whatever else may be contained therein, such restrictions shall describe the location and width of utility and public easements which are being established; a description by reference to the final plat or certified survey map shall suffice. Such restrictions shall further recite that the utility companies and the public agencies using such easements are granted the right to place, and shall state that the elevation of such easements as graded by the Subdivider/Developer may not be altered thereafter by him/her, or any subsequent landowner by more than six (6) inches.