(a) Upon receipt of all required copies of the preliminary plat for final approval, the Village Council shall examine the same with such assistance and review by the Village Planning Commission, the Village Planner, the Village Engineer and the Village Attorney, and with such advice from other experts, as the Village Council may request. Upon completing its review, the Village Council shall determine whether said proposed preliminary plat complies with the requirements imposed by the Village Council at the time of the tentative approval, whether the proprietor has obtained the required statutory approval of other governmental agencies and, in addition, whether the plat meets the following requirements:
(1) No road grade shall exceed a seven percent grade or be less than a 0.5 percent grade, except upon approval by the Village Engineer.
(2) All grades in excess of three percent shall require the installation of curb and gutter. Said curb and gutter shall be set apart not less than thirty-five feet, as measured from back to back, and shall be fully paved between the lip of the gutters.
(3) All road rights of way within or abutting such plat shall be constructed with not less than six-inch compacted gravel base, twenty-two feet wide and covered with not less than two inches of bituminous aggregate pavement, twenty-feet wide.
(4) All rights of way shall be graded to the full width thereof for proper drainage and prospective future widening and improving. Road grading shall be accomplished so as to establish a one-half foot higher elevation at the boundary of the right of way than at the crown of the traveled roadway. All trees or other obstructions within the right of way which interfere with the grading and/or drainage shall be removed. The foregoing one-half foot elevation and tree and obstruction removal may be varied or adjusted by the Village Council upon recommendation of the Village Engineer, where valuable trees or obstacles are involved and as long as drainage and safety will not be impaired.
(5) Permanent dead-end streets shall be provided at the closed end with a turn-around having an outside improved roadway diameter of at least 100 feet, as measured from the centerline of the gutter or the back of the curb, and a street right-of-way diameter of at least 120 feet. Temporary dead-end streets shall be provided at the closed end with a turn-around constructed the full width of the right of way.
(6) All surface waters shall be adequately drained within each plat by a separate system of drainage structures or through the connection of such separate system to an adequate adjoining system. Where storm sewers are used, inlet basins must not be spaced farther apart than 300 feet except upon express approval of the Village Council, upon recommendation of the Village Engineer, to be granted only where other equivalent and sufficient drainage inlets are provided. Where such outlets are not thus available, such drainage structures may consist of leaching basins so spaced that water shall not be required to run on the surface of the road farther than 250 feet to such basin, or so spaced as to afford equivalent and sufficient drainage. The determination of what is equivalent and sufficient drainage shall be left to the Village Council, upon the recommendation of the Village Engineer.
(7) Connection to sanitary sewers and/or water mains may be required by the Village Council when it determines, in its discretion, that said sewers and/or water mains are reasonably available to the proposed subdivision.
(8) In the discretion of the Village Council, the proprietor shall make arrangements for all distribution lines for telephone, electric, television and other similar services distributed by wire or cable to be placed underground entirely through the residential subdivided area. Electric distribution lines shall be defined in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Michigan Public Service Commission. Such conduits or cables shall be placed within private easements provided to such service companies by the proprietor or within dedicated public ways. All such facilities placed in dedicated public ways shall be planned so as not to conflict with other underground utilities. All such facilities shall be constructed in accordance with standards of construction approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission. Private easements for underground utilities shall be shown on the preliminary plat.
(9) Storm water disposal methods proposed for the subdivision must be adequate to insure that each building site and roadway will not be flooded and that all necessary easements for storm sewers or open drains can feasibly be dedicated to the public for such purposes.
(10) No land within the subdivision may be isolated from a public highway nor may any adjoining land of the proprietor or others be isolated from a public thoroughfare, thereby creating land-locked parcels.
(11) Street lighting may be required by the Village Council if it determines that street lighting is necessary for the public health, safety and welfare.
(12) Pedestrian and bicycle paths may be required by the Village Council when the Village Council determines, in its opinion, that paths are necessary for pedestrian safety, public health and welfare. When required, paths shall be constructed of concrete or asphalt, four feet in width and four inches in depth, upon a two-inch minimum sand base.
(b) The Village Council shall complete the review and consideration of the proposed preliminary plat submitted for final approval at the next regular meeting of the Council or within twenty days after the date of submittal of the proposed preliminary plat. If the Village Council determines that the preliminary plat has obtained the required statutory approval of other governmental agencies and complies with the requirements set forth in this chapter, the Village Council shall grant final approval of the preliminary plat, which shall confer upon the proprietor, for a period of two years from the date of approval, the conditional right that the general terms and conditions under which said approval was granted will not be changed. Said two-year period may be extended in the discretion of the Village Council upon application by the proprietor.
(Ord. 95-26. Passed 2-13-95.)