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The purpose of this Title One, Subdivision Regulations, shall be to promote and protect the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity or general welfare of the City. It shall be administered to assure the orderly growth and development of the land.
(Ord. 1961-3. Passed 7-31-61.)
The specific purposes of this Title One, Subdivision Regulations, shall be:
(a) To establish standards of design which will promote harmonious, healthful and stable communities;
(b) To provide safe and convenient traffic circulation, both vehicular and pedestrian;
(c) To assure the efficient, adequate and economic supply of utilities and public services;
(d) To provide ample public open spaces for schools, recreational and other public purposes.
(e) To obtain accurate surveying of land, preparing and recording of plats;
(f) To discourage premature, uneconomic or scattered land developments; and
(g) To coordinate land development in accordance with the Zoning Ordinance, Thoroughfare Plan and other plans of the City. (Ord. 1961-3. Passed 7-31-61.)
(a) Intent. The following terms shall have the meaning given herein.
(b) General.
(1) All words used in the present tense shall include the future tense.
(2) The word "shall" is to be interpreted as mandatory and not directory; the word "may" is permissive.
(3) "Subdivision" includes "resubdivision"; and where appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the lands divided.
(4) "Developer" means any individual, firm, association, corporation, trust or any other legal entity commencing proceedings under these regulations to effect a subdivision of land for himself or for another.
(5) "Commission" means the Planning Commission of the City.
(6) "Council" means the Council of the City of Huron.
(c) Subdivision. "Subdivision" means the division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units of the last preceding tax roll into two or more parcels, sites or lots, any of which is less than five acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership; or the improvement of one or more parcels of land for residential, commercial or industrial structures, involving the division or allocation of land for the opening, widening or extension of any street or streets in the incorporated area of the City.
(d) Compliance. The owner of any such parcel of land who proposes to create a subdivision shall proceed in the manner hereinafter prescribed.
(Ord. 1961-3. Passed 7-31-61.)
Title One (Ordinance 1961-3, passed 7-31-61, as amended), of this Planning and Zoning Code shall be known as the Subdivision Regulations of the City of Huron, Ohio, and is hereby adopted and enacted and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and thereupon all legislative enactments and parts thereof, heretofore enacted by Council, that deal with the subdivision and allotment of lands within the corporate limits of the City, or within three miles therefrom shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
(Ord. 1961-3. Passed 7-31-61.)
Where the Planning Commission finds that the land involved in a subdivision is of such size and shape, or is subject to such title limitations, or is affected by such topographical conditions, or is to be devoted to such usage that it is impossible or impracticable in the particular case for the developer to conform fully to such regulation, the Commission may accept such modifications as may be reasonable and within the general interest and purpose of these Regulations. (Ord. 1961-3. Passed 7-31-61.)
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