(A) If the state’s Department of Transportation has determined the specific location and size of any road or right-of-way improvements necessitating the reservation of land, and this information appears in its officially adopted transportation improvement program, the Planning Board shall immediately notify the Department of Transportation whenever a preliminary plat for a subdivision is submitted, which includes all or part of a road improvement area to be reserved.
(B) If the Department of Transportation does not wish to reserve the site, it shall so notify the Planning Board. If the Department of Transportation does wish to reserve the site, the subdivision shall not be approved without a reservation. The Department of Transportation shall then have 18 months beginning on the date of final approval of the subdivision within which to acquire the site by purchase or by initiating condemnation proceedings.
(C) If the Department of Transportation has not purchased or begun proceedings to condemn the site within 18 months, the subdivider may treat the land as freed of the reservation.
(Ord. 21- , passed - -2021)