(A) Sketch plats submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission may be prepared in pen or pencil, and shall be drawn to a convenient scale of not more than 100 feet to an inch, and shall show the following information:
(1) Name of the subdivision if the property is within an existing subdivision or the proposed name if not within a previously platted subdivision. The name shall not duplicate the name of any plat previously recorded;
(2) Ownership, including the name, address and telephone number of the legal owner and agent, if any, of the property, and citation of the last instrument conveying title to each parcel of property involved in the proposed subdivision, giving grantor, grantee, date and land records reference;
(3) Citation of any existing legal rights-of-way or easements affecting the property;
(4) Existing covenants on the property, if any;
(5) Name and address, including telephone number, of the professional person(s) responsible for subdivision design, for the design of public improvements and for surveys;
(6) Physical description of the location of the property by government lot, section, township, range and county and the graphic scale, north arrow and date; and
(7) Features included in the sketch plat include:
(a) Location of property lines, existing easements, burial grounds, section lines, railroad rights-of-way, watercourses and existing wooded areas of trees eight inches or more in diameter, measured 12 inches above ground level; location, width and names of all existing or platted streets or other public ways within or immediately adjacent to the tract; location of floodways or flood hazard areas; and names of adjoining property owners from the latest assessment rolls within 500 feet of any perimeter boundary of the subdivision;
(b) Locations and sizes of sewers, water mains, culverts and other underground structures within the tract and immediately adjacent thereto; and existing permanent buildings and utility poles on or immediately adjacent to the site and public and private utility rights-of-way;
(c) Approximate topography, at the same horizontal scale as the sketch plat;
(d) The approximate locations and widths of proposed streets;
(e) Preliminary proposals for connection with existing water supply and sanitary sewage systems or alternative means of providing water supply and sanitary waste treatment and disposal; preliminary provisions for collecting and discharging surface water drainage;
(f) The approximate locations, dimensions and areas of all proposed and existing lots;
(g) The locations of temporary stakes to enable the Planning and Zoning Commission to find and appraise features of the sketch plat in the field;
(h) The approximate locations, dimensions and area of all parcels of land proposed to be set aside for park or playground use or other public use, or for the common use of property owners in the proposed subdivision;
(i) Contour intervals of ten feet or less; and
(j) Certifications (owner, treasurer, equalization and the like).
(B) Whenever the sketch plat covers only a part of an applicant’s contiguous holdings, the applicant shall submit, at the scale of not more than 200 feet to the inch, a sketch in pen or pencil of the proposed subdivision area, together with its proposed street system, and an indication of the probable future street and drainage system of the remaining portion of the tract.
(Prior Code, § Q-12-303)