1111.07 REQUIREMENTS FOR PRELIMINARY PLANS AND FINAL PLATS.
   (a)    Filing Fee. At the time of submission of the following, the applicant shall pay a filing fee to the City in the amounts set forth at Section 145.03(a)(1).
(Ord. 1686-07. Passed 10-25-07.)
   (b)    Preliminary Plan. Whenever a person seeks approval of a subdivision plat he shall submit the required number of prints of the preliminary plan to the Planning Commission as prescribed in the Administrative Rules and Procedures for the Review of Preliminary Plans and Final Plats. Replats shall be exempt from this provision. Plats containing two lots or less may be exempted from the provision relating to preliminary plans but shall be subject to all the requirements of final plat. Approval of a preliminary plan shall be subject to reappraisal after twelve months unless a section of the plat has been submitted for final approval.
 
   (c)    Preliminary Plan Data. The preliminary plan shall show the following data:
      (1)    North point, scale and date.
       (2)    Location of the plat by section, town, range or by existing plats or thoroughfares.
      (3)    Plat boundary by a heavy line with approximate acreage.
       (4)    All section, township, corporation and county lines which pass through the plat, and their approximate distance from the boundary lines of the property.
      (5)    Name of the plat and names and addresses of owners and subdividing engineer or surveyor. Plat name shall not duplicate or too closely approximate the name of existing plat of record.
      (6)    Name of adjacent subdivisions and owners of unsubdivided land and City lot numbers of adjacent lots.
      (7)    Contours with intervals of not more than five feet where the slope is greater than ten percent (10%) and not more than two feet where the slope is less than ten percent (10%).
      (8)    Sketch plans or written statements, if required, regarding grades and typical cross sections of proposed streets, and any other proposed improvements within the subdivision, including the facilities for storm drainage and a typical swale diagram for the lots and a letter assuring compliance with the drainage plan.
      (9)    Size and location of existing sanitary sewers, water or storm sewer lines within or adjacent to the plat.
      (10)   Proposed names of streets and location of all streets, alleys, crosswalks, utility and drainage easements with right-of-way widths thereof.
      (11)    Lot layout with lot numbers and approximate dimensions including dimensions at the building line when the lot is located on a curve or the side lot lines are not parallel.
      (12)    Land to be reserved for public use.
      (13)    Location, width and name of existing or platted streets or proposed thoroughfares, railroad right of way, public utility easements and public open spaces.
      (14)    Existing physical features including wooded areas, drainage channels and permanent buildings.
      (15)    Building setback lines with dimensions.
      (16)    Vicinity sketch.
      (17)    Typewritten copy of protective covenants, if required.
 
   (d)    Preliminary Plan Approval. The approval of the preliminary plan as required herein does not constitute final approval of the plat, but merely indicates that the final plat will be approved whenever it conforms to the requirements of these regulations and conforms to the requirements of the approved preliminary plan. The approval of the preliminary plan is authority for the subdivider to proceed with the plans and specifications for all improvements required in Section 1111.06, as well as the preparation of the final plat in a form satisfactory for recording. After the plans and specifications for the improvements have been approved by the proper authorities, the subdivider may proceed with their installation.
   (e)    Final Plat. The final plat on tracing cloth and the required number of prints of the final plat, as prescribed in the Administrative Rules and Procedures for the Review of Preliminary Plans and Final Plats shall be submitted not later than twelve months after the date of preliminary plat approval. The final plat is to be drawn at a scale of not more than 100 feet to the inch from an accurate survey, and shall be prepared by a registered surveyor.
 
   (f)    Final Plat Data. The final plat shall show the following data:
      (1)    North point, scale and date.
      (2)    All plat boundaries with lengths of courses to hundredths of a foot and bearings to half minutes. The error of closure shall not exceed 1 to 10,000.
When required, all calculations and field notes shall be submitted. Plat boundary shall be shown by red line.
      (3)    The name of plat with the correct description of the property being subdivided and its location by section, town, range or City lot number, with deed book and page reference and acreage to hundredths.
      (4)    The names, exact location and width along the property lines of all existing or recorded streets intersecting or paralleling the plat boundaries.
      (5)    The names of record of all abutting tracts with their deed book and page reference and the plat book reference of all abutting plats or City lot numbers.
      (6)    Bearings and distances to nearest established street boundaries, section lines or other recognized monuments, which monuments shall be located and accurately described on the plat.
      (7)    Any section lines, corporation limits, township and county lines shall be accurately monumented and located on the plat and their names lettered thereon.
      (8)    All thoroughfares as shown on the official Thoroughfare Plan wherever they traverse the plat.
      (9)    The street names and street and alley lines with bearings or angles of intersection and widths including the width along the lines of any obliquely intersecting street.
      (10)    The length of all arcs, radii, points of curvature and tangent bearings. In cases where the intersection of property lines is rounded, the radius, central angle and tangent distance shall be noted.
      (11)    All easements or rights of way where provided for or owned by public utilities.
      (12)    All lot lines with dimensions in feet and hundredths including scaled dimensions on the building line when the side lot lines are not parallel or measured along a line tangent to the center of the arc when the lot is located on a curve.
      (13)    The accurate location and material of all monuments. The type of lot corner markers shall be clearly indicated on the plat.
      (14)    All public property on the plat accurately outlined and described.
      (15)    Protective covenants and restrictions.
      (16)    Building setback lines.
      (17)    The certificate of the registered surveyor, attesting to the accuracy of the survey and the correct location of all monuments shown.
      (18)    Acknowledgment of the owner or owners to the plat and restrictions, including dedications to public use of all streets, alleys, parks or other open spaces shown thereon and the granting of the required easements, as shall be indicated by the following statement on the plat tracing: "Easements shown on this plat are for the construction, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement or removal of water, gas, sewer, electric, telephone or other utilities or services, and for the express privilege of removing any and all trees or other obstructions to the free use of said utilities and for providing of ingress and egress to the property for said purposes, and are to be maintained as such forever."
   (g)    Recording. After the final plat has been approved by the Planning Commission and by the City Engineer, the necessary approvals endorsed in writing thereon, it shall then be filed for recording in the office of the County Recorder as required by law within sixty days after the date of final approval.
   (h)    File Copies. The subdivider shall then submit one reproducible drawing of plats within the City and two reproducible drawings of plats within a three-mile limit to the Planning Commission within thirty days after recording of the plat.
(Ord. 304. Passed 4-14-70.)