(A) General. In order that the public health, safety, welfare and convenience of the inhabitants of the village may be promoted, protected and assured by the furnishing of adequate police and fire protection, waste collection, water supply, drainage and sewage disposal, no parcel of land within the corporate limits of the village shall be divided or subdivided into smaller parcels or lots for sale for building purposes, the subsection or paragraph constituting a land subdivision as herein defined, nor shall any land be dedicated or made the subject of easement for public or private streets or any other public use, unless the owner or owners thereof shall comply with the provisions of this chapter; and until the provisions have been complied with, no building shall be constructed on the land nor shall a permit for the building be issued by the Building Commissioner of the village, nor shall any public improvements as herein defined be constructed by the owner or owners or accepted for operation and maintenance by the village.
(B) Recording. The owner or owners of land located within the corporate limits of the village, or any other person, firm or corporation making a land subdivision as defined herein, within the village, shall record or register a map or plat of the same in the Recorder’s office or the office of the Register of Titles of the county, as provided by law, except that the recording or registration of a map or plat of subdivision need not be made in any case of a subdivision involving only a rearrangement of the division lines of real estate already included within a duly recorded or registered subdivision, not involving any change in public or private street lines and not creating any subdivided parcel or lot which does not abut upon a public street or upon a private street connecting with a public street, which private street the owner of any subdivided parcel or lot, by virtue of a recorded or registered instrument, has a right to use for access to the subdivided parcel or lot.
(C) Approval. Before any land subdivision shall be entitled to record or shall be valid, it shall be approved by the Plan Commission and Board of Trustees of the village.
(D) Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FRONTAGE. All the property fronting on one side of a street, measured along the street, between an intersecting or intercepting street and another intersecting or intercepting street, a right-of- way in excess of 30 feet, an end of a dead-end street, a watercourse or a village boundary.
LAND SUBDIVISION. Any change or rearrangement in the boundary or division lines of any parcel or parcels of real estate, or any public thoroughfare.
LOT FRONTAGE. Any front lot line or side lot line abutting a public street.
LOT LINE. Any line bounding a lot.
LOT LINE, FRONT. The boundary of a lot along a public street; provided that in the case of a corner lot, the front line shall be the shorter lot boundary along a public street.
LOT LINE, REAR.
(a) In the case of lots that are generally rectangular or trapezoidal in shape, the lot line that is most distant from and most parallel to the front lot line; or
(b) In the case of all other lots, either:
1. Those lot lines that serve as all or part of the rear lot line for more than one contiguous lot; or
2. Where no lot line serves as all or part of the rear lot line for more than one contiguous lot, an imaginary line 20 feet in length, entirely within the lot and parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE. Any boundary of a lot which is not a front or rear lot line.
LOT, THROUGH. A lot having lot lines on two non-intersecting streets or on substantially parallel sections of two intersecting streets.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT. Any sewer, water main, pavement, sidewalk or similar facility, provided to serve the residents of a land subdivision and for which the village is responsible for maintenance and operation.
(1959 Code, § 32-1) (Ord. 951, passed 4-10-2006; Ord. 956, passed 5-8-2006)