After meeting informally with the Plan Commission, the subdivider shall cause to be prepared a preliminary plat as required herein.
(A) Procedure.
(1) Five copies of the preliminary plat and required supplemental material shall be filed with the Administrative Assistant of the town, unless otherwise provided for by ordinance. Such filing shall take place at least 30 days prior to a regularly scheduled meeting of the Plan Commission, at which time the preliminary plat is to be considered.
(2) Preliminary plats shall generally comply with the reviewed sketch plan and specifically include any terms and conditions established at the advisory meeting. Preliminary plats must include names and addresses of the owner, developer, and surveyor or engineer.
(3) The plat shall be accompanied by an “application for preliminary plat” available at Town Hall and a filing fee of $50 plus $1 for each lot. Such fee will be utilized to cover the cost of checking and verifying the proposed plat. If the preliminary plat is amended to change the lot layout or make any other major changes, an additional filing fee of $50 plus $1 per lot will be required to cover the cost of reviewing the revised plans.
(4) Upon receipt of the application or an amended preliminary plat, the Plan Commission shall schedule a public hearing on the preliminary plat or amended plat. Notice of such public hearing shall be advertised in one local newspaper of general circulation ten days prior to the hearing as required by and in accordance with I.C. 5-3-1. The applicant shall be responsible for notifying all adjoining property owners, by certified mail, as to the date, time, place, and purpose of the public hearing. The applicant must file the return receipts, provided by the post office, to verify that the notifications were delivered, or, if delivery failed, the certified mail receipts showing that they were sent with the Commission at the time of the public hearing.
(5) Following the public hearing and upon due consideration of the preliminary plat, the Plan Commission shall approve, disapprove, or modify the proposed plat and shall impose those requirements or grant those variances in conformance with this chapter deemed necessary and appropriate for final approval.
(6) Approval of the preliminary plat by the Plan Commission shall not constitute approval to begin improvements. Such approval shall be given only upon submittal and approval of construction plans. Approval of construction plans is an integral part of the preliminary plat process; if construction plans have not been specifically approved at the time that a preliminary plat is approved, such approval shall be deemed contingent upon later approval of construction plans.
(7) The approval of the preliminary plat shall lapse unless a final plat based thereon is submitted within 18 months from the date of such approval. An extension of time may be granted by the Plan Commission upon application by the subdivider.
(8) One copy of the preliminary plat shall be returned to the applicant with the date of approval, conditional approval, or disapproval and, when requested by the applicant, the reasons therefor accompanying the plat within 30 days following the public hearing.
(B) Preliminary plat data.
(1) Accompanying the preliminary plat, the developer will submit the form entitled site environmental assessment. This form, to be completed by a registered surveyor or engineer, will provide information as to the existing site conditions, soil suitability, and proposed site treatment techniques.
(a) Scale of 100 feet to one inch or larger;
(b) Name of subdivision, along with recorded deed information; names and addresses of the owners, the engineer or surveyor, the developer (if different from the owner), and the owners of adjacent property;
(c) A vicinity sketch at a scale of 200 feet to one inch or less;
(d) Date, approximate north point, and graphic scale;
(e) Legal description of the land to be subdivided, including acreage;
(f) Existing contours at an interval of not greater than two feet or at a lesser interval if deemed necessary by the Plan Commission;
(g) Existing streams, gullies, wooded areas, buildings, and other natural or human-made features;
(h) Survey data including section, township and range, latitude and longitude; and boundary lines of area to be subdivided and their bearings and distances;
(i) Existing and proposed easements and their locations, widths, and distances within 500 feet;
(j) Existing and proposed zoning on and adjacent to the tract;
(k) Existing and proposed platting of adjacent property, showing owners’ names;
(l) Existing or proposed streets on and adjacent to the tract and their names, right-of way widths, approximate grades, and other dimensions as may be required;
(m) Lot lines with dimensions and lot numbers;
(n) Sites and their acreages, if any, currently or to be reserved or dedicated for parks, playgrounds, schools, or other public uses;
(o) Existing sewers, water mains, culverts, or other underground facilities within the tract or within 500 feet thereof, indicating pipe sizes, grades, and exact locations, as obtained from public record;
(p) Sites, if any, for semi-public, commercial, industrial, or multi-family use. Proposed building location and internal circulation should be shown, especially the location and number of entrances onto public streets;
(q) Minimum building setback lines showing dimensions;
(r) Approximate locations of 100-year flood elevations along all streams; and
(s) If the proposed subdivision is within the two-mile fringe of the town, then the plat shall contain the following language: “The owner/developer of this subdivision does hereby waive, for himself or herself and all successors and assigns, any objection or remonstrance to the annexation of this tract, and each lot therein, by the Town of Hanover, Indiana, which waiver of remonstrance to annexation shall be a covenant running with the land.”
(3) Whenever part of a tract is proposed to be subdivided and it is intended to subdivide additional parts of the tract in the future, a sketch plan for the entire tract shall be submitted to the Plan Commission at the same time the preliminary plat for the first part of the tract to be platted is submitted.
(Ord. 2005-5, passed 6-7-2005)