(a) Whenever any subdivision of land shall hereafter be laid out within the incorporated limits of the City, or within contiguous territory not more than one and one-half miles beyond the incorporated boundary of the City, the subdivider thereof or his or her agent shall submit both a preliminary and a final subdivision plat to the Planning Commission for its approval. The subdivision plats and all procedures relating thereto shall in all respects be in full compliance with this chapter.
(b) Until plats and plans for the subdivision are approved:
(1) No land shall be subdivided, nor any street laid out, nor any improvements made to the natural land.
(2) No lot, tract or parcel of land within any subdivision shall be offered for sale, nor shall any sale, contract for sale or option be made or given.
(3) No improvements such as sidewalks, water supply, storm water drainage, sanitary sewerage facilities, gas service, electrical service, lighting and grading, paving or surfacing of a street shall hereafter be made by any owner or owners or his, her or their agent, or by any public service corporation at the request of such owner or owners or his, her or their agent.
(4) Lots subject to flooding and lots deemed by the Planning Commission to be uninhabitable shall not be platted for residential occupancy nor for such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property or aggravate a flood hazard. Such land within the plat shall be set aside for such uses as shall not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation or as shall not produce unsatisfactory living conditions.
(c) All offerings or dedications of land to the City for use as streets, alleys, highways, schools, parks, playgrounds or other public use shall be referred to the Planning Commission for review and recommendation before being accepted by the City Council.
(d) Where a tract of land proposed by subdivision is part of a larger, logical subdivision unit in relation to the City as a whole, the Planning Commission may, before approval, cause to be prepared a plan for the entire area or neighborhood, such plan to be used by the Planning Commission as an aid in judging the proposed plat. The Public Works Director shall cooperate with the Planning Commission in the preparation of this plan and shall furnish such surveys and data as may be necessary.
(e) In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements.
(f) No provision of this chapter shall be construed as being in conflict with 765 ILCS 205/0.01 et seq. If any such conflict exists, the conflicting provision of these Codified Ordinances shall be separable and void. All pertinent and applicable provisions of 65 ILCS 5/11-12-4 et seq. and 5/11-15-1 et seq., and of 765 ILCS 205/1 through 205/8, as heretofore or hereafter amended, are incorporated herein by reference.
(1977 Code § 67-104; Ord. 79-23. Passed 5-7-79; Ord. 94-80. Passed 9-19-94.)