(A) Purpose. To regulate the subdividing of land within the city so that new additions will be integrated with the Comprehensive Plan and will contribute to an attractive, stable and wholesome community development.
(B) Legal authority. Minnesota Laws 1965, Chapter 670, being M.S. §§ 462.351 et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.
(C) Geographic jurisdiction. The area within the corporate limits of the city, and the area extending two miles beyond its corporate limits, except within a township which has adopted subdivision regulations.
(D) Conveyance by metes and bounds.
(1) No conveyance of land in which the land conveyed is described by metes and bounds, or by reference to an unapproved registered land survey made after the effective date of Laws 1961, Chapter 626, being M.S. § 462.358, at it may be amended from time to time, shall be made or recorded unless the parcel described in the conveyance:
(a) Was a separate parcel of record on the effective date of this chapter;
(b) Was the subject of a written agreement to convey entered into prior to that date;
(c) Was a separate parcel of not less than two and one-half acres in area and 150 feet in width on the effective date of this chapter; or
(d) Is a single parcel of land not less than five acres in area and 300 feet in width.
(2) Building permits shall be withheld for structures on tracts which have been subdivided and conveyed by this method, and the city may refuse to take over tracts as streets or roads or to improve, repair or maintain any such tracts.
(2003 Code, § 10.01)