The Planning Commission or the City Commission shall not approve the subdivision of land if, from adequate investigations conducted by all public agencies concerned, it has been determined that in the best interest of the public health, safety, or welfare the land is not suitable for platting and development purposes of the kind proposed; provided, however, that the findings of the investigations substantiating the conclusion to disapprove the land as suitable for subdividing for the purposes proposed shall be placed in writing and dated, and the disapproval verified by the signatures of the majority members of the Planning Commission. Land subject to flooding and land deemed to be topographically unsuitable for building, or for other reasons uninhabitable, shall not be platted for residential occupancy, nor for the other uses as may increase danger to health, safety, or welfare or aggravate erosion or flood hazard. The land shall be set aside within the plat for the uses as shall not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation or shall produce unsatisfactory living conditions.
(1981 Code, § 25-13)