CHAPTER 153: SUBDIVISIONS
Section
General Provisions
   153.001   Title
   153.002   Purposes
   153.003   Statutory authorization
   153.004   Jurisdiction
   153.005   Enactment
   153.006   Reservation and repeals
   153.007   Amendments
   153.008   Interpretation, conflict and separability
   153.009   Saving provision
   153.010   Variances to the regulations
   153.011   Enforcement
   153.012   Fees
Definitions
   153.025   Usage
   153.026   Words and terms defined
Subdivision Application Procedure and Approval Process
   153.040   General procedures for subdivisions
   153.041   Pre-application procedure
   153.042   Metes and bounds survey
   153.043   Sketch plat
   153.044   Environmental review
   153.045   Preliminary plat procedure
   153.046   Amendments to preliminary plat
   153.047   Final plat procedure
   153.048   Signing and recording of subdivision plat
   153.049   Vested rights
   153.050   Appeals to City Council
   153.051   Vacation of plats, rights-of-way and public easements
   153.052   Resubdivisions of land
   153.053   Lot reconfigurations
Assurance for Completion and Maintenance of Improvements
   153.065   Improvements and developer’s agreement
   153.066   Inspection of improvements
   153.067   Acceptance of land dedications and public improvements
   153.068   Deferral or waiver of required improvements
Requirements for Improvements, Reservations and Design
   153.080   General design philosophy
   153.081   Blocks and lots
   153.082   Monuments
   153.083   Highways, streets and alleys
   153.084   Grading, drainage and stormwater facilities
   153.085   Sanitary sewer
   153.086   Water supply
   153.087   Utilities
   153.088   Public sites, parks and open space
   153.089   Trails and sidewalks
   153.090   Street lights and signs
   153.091   Street trees
   153.092   Solar access
   153.093   Non-residential subdivisions
   153.094   Wetland delineations, wetland buffers, wetland structure setbacks
Submittal Requirements
   153.105   Sketch plat
   153.106   Preliminary plat
   153.107   Final plat
   153.108   Construction plans
   153.109   Title work
   153.110   Recording documents
   153.111   Mapping documents
   153.112   Metes and bounds survey
 
   153.999   Penalty
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 153.001 TITLE.
   These regulations shall officially be known, cited, and referred to as the subdivision regulations of Harris, Minnesota (hereinafter “regulations”).
(Ord. passed 1-23-2001)
§ 153.002 PURPOSES.
   These regulations are adopted for the following purposes.
   (A)   To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the municipality.
   (B)   To guide the future growth and development of the municipality in accordance with the comprehensive plan.
   (C)   To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
   (D)   To ensure that public facilities and services are available concurrent with development and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision. In addition, the community will be required to bear no more than its fair share of the cost of providing facilities and services through requiring the developer to pay fees, furnish land, or establish mitigation measures to ensure that the development provides its fair share of capital facilities needs generated by the development.
   (E)   To encourage the orderly development of the community through appropriate growth management techniques assuring the timing and sequencing of development, promotion of infill development in existing neighborhoods and nonresidential areas with adequate public facilities, and to protect environmentally critical areas and areas premature for urban development.
   (F)   To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the municipality, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings. To provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.
   (G)   To prevent the pollution of air and water resources including ground water; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the municipality in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of the land.
   (H)   To provide for open spaces through the most efficient design and layout of the land.
   (I)   To ensure that land is subdivided only when subdivision is necessary to provide for uses of land for which market demand exists and which are in the public interest.
   (J)   To remedy the problems associated with inappropriately subdivided lands, including premature subdivision, excess subdivision, partial or incomplete subdivision, scattered and low-grade subdivision.
(Ord. passed 1-23-2001)
§ 153.003 STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION.
   This chapter is adopted pursuant to the authority contained in M.S. §§ 462.351 to 462.365, and Chapter 505, as they may be amended from time to time.
(Ord. passed 1-23-2001)
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