Required improvements and facilities shall be installed in conformance with the following conditions and specifications:
A. Monuments: Monuments shall be set in accordance with Idaho Code 50-1301 et seq., as amended from time to time.
B. Streets; Water And Sewer:
1. Streets: All streets shall be constructed in accordance with “Highway Standards For The Associated Highway Districts Of Kootenai County, Idaho”, latest edition, “Idaho Standards For Public Works Construction”, and supplemental standards adopted by the city council or required by the city engineer or the Public Works Director.
2. Water And Sewer: Water and sewer line construction shall be governed by the “Standard Specifications For Municipal Public Works Construction”, published by the American Public Works Association, latest edition, and supplemental standards adopted by the city council or required by the city engineer or the Public Works Director.
C. Surface Drainage: Surface drainage from streets and other areas shall be disposed of through a system approved by the city engineer and/or public works director.
D. Available Public Water Supply: Available public water supply shall be provided in conformance with standards adopted by the council and the Idaho department of health and welfare.
E. Fire Protection: Adequate provisions for fire protection shall be made in accordance to fire district standards and the uniform fire code.
F. Street Signs; Lighting; Traffic Control Devices: Street signs corresponding in design to those adopted as standard for the city shall be installed at each intersection for convenient identification of streets. Streetlights 1 and traffic control devices shall be installed and paid for by the developer, as required by the city or governmental agencies.
G. Curbs And Sidewalks 2 : Curbs and sidewalks on both sides of all streets and streetlights shall be installed by developers of any subdivision prior to the issuance of any building permit.
H. Underground Utilities: Underground utilities shall be provided for all residential lots.
I. Common Open Spaces, Tracts, and Required Landscape Buffers:
1. Landscape Buffer Along Exterior Streets:
a. The buffer must be located outside of any planned future right of way, and should not be used for future roadway improvements.
b. The width of the buffer along exterior streets must be a minimum of ten feet (10') in width.
c. Buffer zones must be dedicated to the city on the final plat as tracts.
2. Landscape Buffer Design Standards: The design of the buffer must comply with the following standards:
a. Landscaping, as used herein, must include as a minimum, grass, native and other drought resistant vegetation and street trees as required by the city. Nonvegetative materials, such as decorative rock, bark, and permabark, may not be used in lieu of landscaping. However, nonvegetative material may be used to augment the landscape or around the base of shrub groupings or flowerbeds as long as the coverage does not exceed twenty percent (20%). The use of bark or other loose material shall be designed or located to keep the bark from being blown onto the paved path.
b. The twenty percent (20%) limitation on nonvegetative material does not apply if the landscape is designed by a licensed landscape architect and the nonvegetative material is used to complement or visually enhance the vegetative material.
c. A permanent irrigation system must be provided for all landscaped areas. The use of hose bibs on the exterior of existing or proposed structures is not an acceptable method of landscape irrigation, unless the landscaped area is adjacent to the existing or proposed structure. All irrigation systems and landscaped areas must be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained so as to promote water conservation and prevent overflow or seepage into adjacent streets or sidewalks/trails.
3. Maintenance of Common Open Spaces, Tracts, and Required Landscape Buffers: The developer is required to form a property owners’ association prior to final plat, with said buffers to be maintained by a perpetual property owners’ association. Alternatively, if the subdivision has only one lot fronting on a collector or minor arterial, a homeowners’ association will not be required for the maintenance of the greenbelt if a nonrevocable covenant, approved by the city, is recorded against the property fronting the greenbelt memorializing the obligation.
a. If the property owners’ association, that is formed pursuant to this Chapter, is ever dissolved, discontinued, or abandoned in any way without an alternative maintenance program being created and utilized for the maintenance of common open spaces, tracts, and required landscape buffers, the city shall have the right to take over the maintenance of said common open spaces, tracts, and required landscape buffers.
b. If the city takes over the maintenance of said common open spaces, tracts, and required landscape buffers, the city shall charge each property located within the adjacent subdivision, as shown on the recorded plat map, a fee for said maintenance, which will not exceed the actual cost of the maintenance. Said fee shall be added to the owner’s utility bill and shall be subject to the same due date and default proceedings as utility billings, as described in Title 8, Chapter 1.
c. The owner and occupant of any such premises for which a maitentance fee is due shall be jointly and severally liable for all fees and charges assessed by the city. Such charges shall become a lien upon and against the property for which the user charge or fee is assessed to the extent permitted by the laws of the state and this code and may be collected in any manner permitted or hereafter permitted by law.
4. Completion Time:
a. All improvements required by this section must be installed prior to final plat approval or occupancy of a building subject to development review.
b. The planning director may authorize a delay in the completion of planting during the months of October through March. Should a delay be granted, a bond or other sufficient security, approved by the city attorney, equal to one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the costs of landscaping, must be provided by the owner/developer and held by the city until the required landscaping is complete. No final certificate of occupancy will be issued until the landscaping is complete.
J. Inspection By Engineer:
1. Sewer, Water, Underground Facilities: Full time inspection by the subdivider’s engineer of the construction of sewer, water and other underground facilities to be dedicated to the city shall be required.
2. Street Construction: Street construction inspection, by the subdivider’s engineer, shall be as required by the “Highway Standards For The Associated Highway Districts Of Kootenai County, Idaho”. All as built drawings, tests and field conditions, including those for gas, electric, telephone and cable TV facilities shall be reviewed by the city engineer and/or public works department prior to the final approval.
K. Costs: All costs incurred by the city for plan, specification or drawing review or approval or construction inspections shall be paid by the subdivider.
L. Letter Of Credit: An irrevocable letter of credit or other suitable guarantee required to be posted by the subdivider shall be in an amount equal to one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the actual contract cost for construction of the required facilities and improvements or projected construction cost as verified by the city engineer, as the case may be, for all improvements which have not been constructed and approved at the time of final plat approval.
M. Warranties:
1. Water And Sewer: At the time of final approval, the subdivider or its contractor shall provide to the City a warranty that the required water and sewer improvements and facilities are free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one year from the acceptance of the improvements by the City. This warranty shall be secured by a performance bond in the amount of twenty-five percent (25%) of the actual construction cost of the warranted facilities and improvements.
2. Street Improvements: At the time of final plat approval, the subdivider or its contractor shall provide to the City a warranty that the required street improvements are free from all defects in materials or workmanship for a period of two (2) years from the acceptance of the improvements by the City. This warranty shall be secured by a performance bond in the amount of twenty-five percent (25%) of the actual paid construction cost of improvements
3. Extended Warranty: An extended warranty may be required upon recommendation of the City Engineer and Public Works Director. (Ord. 609, 8-10-2022)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See title 7, chapter 2, article C of this code. |
| 2 | 2. See title 7, chapter 2, article A of this code. |