(a) Staff Granted the Authority of Review and Approval. The City Engineer is authorized to represent the Planning Commission in the review and approval of a minor subdivision, and to endorse the conveyance of a parcel or parcels of land in a minor subdivision for transfer without plat.
(b) Submission of Minor Subdivision. Any person proposing to create a minor subdivision shall submit the following to the City Engineer:
(1) A legal description of the parcel or parcels sought to be transferred, on a conveyance of such parcel or parcels.
(2) Two copies of property line survey by a registered surveyor of the parcel or parcels sought to be transferred.
(Ord. 143-96. Passed 9-23-96.)
(3) Each application shall be accompanied by the payment of the fee established in Chapter 1108 of the Planning and Zoning Code. In addition, the City Engineer, where appropriate, may refer an application to qualified consultants for a report if the City Engineer deems the proposed use may require special study. The cost of such report shall be at the expense of the applicant, in accordance with a policy established and amended from time to time by Council.
(Ord. 50-05. Passed 2-28-05.)
(Ord. 50-05. Passed 2-28-05.)
(c) Action by the City Engineer. Within seven working days after submission of a minor subdivision, or within a mutually agreed upon extension, the City Engineer shall either approve or disapprove the application for transfer without plat. If the City Engineer does not approve the transfer without plat, the applicant shall be notified in writing of the reason for disapproval. If the City Engineer approves the transfer without plat, the conveyance shall be stamped: "Approved by Medina City Planning Commission; no plat required, " and the signature of the City Engineer shall be affixed along with the date of such approval. The approval shall expire at the end of sixty days, unless the conveyances are recorded in the office of the County Recorder during such period.
(d) Action by the Health Commissioner. The City Engineer shall within seven days after submission of a minor subdivision, which would require an individual sewer system, submit the proposed subdivision to the Health Commissioner who shall approve or disapprove building sites for individual sewer systems. If disapproved the Health Commissioner shall notify the owner of the reasons for disapproval.
(e) Three-Mile Area. The Planning Director is authorized to represent the Planning Commission in the review and approval of a minor subdivision and to endorse the conveyance of a parcel or parcels of land in a minor subdivision for transfer without plat. Subdivision outside the City but within the City's three-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction, shall not be approved by the Planning Director until the survey plat is given zoning approval by the applicable township.