(a) Whenever any plan for the development of a subdivision is initially filed with the City Planning Commission, it shall have attached to it a listing of all persons, with their addresses of record, who, at the date of filing, own land which at any point abuts any land within the proposed subdivision.
(b) Upon the filing of such plan, the City Engineer shall forthwith cause written notice to be sent by regular U.S. mail to each landowner so identified. The notice shall advise the landowner that a plan has been submitted to the City for the development of land which abuts his or her land, that details of the proposal and its status may be obtained at the office of the City Engineer and that the landowner may submit comments to the City concerning the proposal. The notice may be sent by postcard. The actual costs for postage and processing of such notice shall be charged to and reimbursed by the person who submitted the plan for approval. A period of no less than seven days shall elapse between the mailing of the notice to those identified in subsection (a) hereof and the meeting of the Commission where the plan will be discussed.
(c) If the proposed plan is submitted in preliminary and then final form or is amended during the course of its evaluation by the City, and if there is a substantial change made in the layout of the proposed subdivision, an additional notice shall be given as set forth in subsection (b) hereof before any final approval is given by the Commission
(d) The Commission shall not give final approval to any subdivision until at least fourteen days have passed from its first public meeting thereon, during which time residents shall be permitted to voice objections thereto.
(e) If a notice required under this section is unintentionally not sent by the City Engineer or, having been sent, is not delivered or not received or not received timely by the landowner, such failure shall not affect the validity of approval by the City of any subdivision which is in all other respects lawfully given.
(Ord. 161-86. Passed 10-20-86; Ord. 273-86. Passed 12-1-86.)