(A) Conformance to applicable rules and regulations. In addition to the requirements established herein, all subdivision plats shall comply with the following laws, rules and regulations:
(1) All applicable state and local statutory provisions;
(2) The Zoning Ordnance, Building and Housing Codes and all other applicable laws and ordinances of the appropriate jurisdictions;
(3) The Comprehensive Plan and official map, including all streets, drainage systems and parks shown on the official map or Comprehensive Plan as adopted;
(4) The special requirements of these regulations and any rules of the Health Department and/or appropriate state agencies;
(5) The rules and regulations of the State Department of Transportation if the subdivision or any lot contained therein abut a state highway or state frontage road;
(6) The highway and drainage standards and regulations adopted by the County Engineer and all boards, commissions, agencies and officials of the county and/or city; and
(7) All pertinent standards contained within valid planning guides published by the Plan Commission.
(B) Plat approval. Plat approval may be withheld if a subdivision is not in conformity with the above guides and requirements or with the policies and purposes of these regulations established in § 155.003 above.
(C) Self-imposed restrictions. If the owner places restrictions on any of the land contained in the subdivision greater than those required by the Zoning Ordinance or these regulations, the restrictions or reference thereto may be required to be indicated on the subdivision plat, or the Commission will require that restrictive covenants be recorded with the County Recorder in a form to be approved by the Commission Attorney.
(D) Plats straddling municipal boundaries.
(1) Whenever access to the subdivision is required across land in another jurisdiction, the Commission may request assurance that the access is legally established, and from the City Engineer (within corporate limits) or County Engineer (within jurisdictional area) that the access road is adequately improved, or that a performance bond has been duly executed and is sufficient in the amount to assure the construction of the access road.
(2) Lot lines shall be laid out so as not to cross municipal boundary lines.
(E) Boundary improvements.
(1) The subdivider shall have placed, under the supervision of a registered land surveyor, concrete monuments four inches square or four inches in diameter.
(a) The center of all monuments shall be marked on the top by a steel dowel at least one-half-inch in diameter, set flush with the top.
(b) Monuments shall be set so that the top is slightly below the adjoining established grade and shall be installed at the following points, following grading of each phase of the subdivision:
1. At the intersection of street and alley right-of-way lines;
2. At the beginning and ending of all street curves on both right-of-way lines; and
3. At all boundary corners of the dedicated plat area and dedicated public areas.
(2) The subdivider shall have placed, under the supervision of a registered land surveyor, iron pipe or iron and steel bars, at least five-eighths-inch in diameter by three feet in length at the corners of each lot not marked by monuments required above.
(a) The top of the pipe or bar shall be set level with the established grade adjoining it.
(b) They shall be set prior to the issuance of any improvement location permit.
(F) Character of the land. Land which the Commission finds to be unsuitable for subdivision or development because of flooding, improper drainage, steep slopes, rock formations, adverse earth formations or topography, utility easements or other features which might reasonably be harmful to the safety, health and general welfare of the present or future inhabitants of the subdivision and/or its surrounding areas, shall not be subdivided or developed unless adequate methods are formulated by the developer and approved by the Commission, upon recommendation of the County and/or City Engineer, to solve the problems created by the unsuitable land conditions. the land shall be set aside for the uses permitted by the Zoning Ordinance as shall not involve any danger.
(G) Subdivision name.
(1) The proposed name of the subdivision shall not duplicate, or too closely approximate phonetically, the name of any other subdivision in the area covered by these regulations.
(2) The Commission shall have final authority to designate the name of the subdivision which shall be determined at the time of primary approval.
(Ord. 615, passed 2-22-1999)