(A) Purpose:
(1) To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the town;
(2) To guide the future development and renewal of the town in accordance with the comprehensive plan-related policies;
(3) To provide for the safety, comfort and soundness of the built environment and related open spaces;
(4) To protect the compatibility, character, economic stability and orderliness of all development through reasonable design standards; and
(5) To guide public and private policy and action to provide:
(a) Adequate and efficient public and private facilities;
(b) The most aesthetically pleasing and beneficial interrelationship between land uses; and
(c) Conservation of natural resources such as natural beauty, woodlands, open spaces and energy both during and after development.
(B) Authority and jurisdiction.
(1) This chapter which was enacted pursuant to Indiana home rule and planning enabling legislation (I.C. 36-1-3-4 and the I.C. 36-7-4-700 series, as amended) authorizes the Fremont Plan Commission to review and approve or disapprove plats for subdivisions throughout the Fremont jurisdictional area which show lots, blocks or sites with or without new streets or highways. This authority extends to the development or resubdivision of undeveloped portions of already recorded plats.
(2) No building permit or certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any parcel or plat or land which was created by subdivision after the effective date of, and not in conformity with the provisions of this Subdivision Chapter, and no excavation of land or construction of any public or private improvements shall take place or be commenced except in conformity with the provisions contained herein and in conformity with construction standards adopted by the town.
(1996 Code, Chap. 11, § 1.3)