(A) The subdivider shall submit to the agent five black-line prints of the final subdivision plat prepared by a registered professional engineer or registered land surveyor authorized to do business in the state, and one black-line Mylar reproducible of the final plat, the original of which shall be clearly and legibly drawn on a sheet 18 by 24 inches, including a margin of one-half inches outside ruled border lines at top, bottom, and right sides, and one and one-half inch for binding on the left 18-inch end.
(B) The plat shall have a scale of 100 feet to the inch and shall clearly show the following:
(1) The title of the plat shall be included within a space four inches high and six inches wide in the lower right-hand corner of the plat. The data therein shall be confined to the following: name of subdivision with designation of section if only a portion of the approved preliminary plat is being developed, the county and magisterial district applicable, date, scale, and the registered surveyor or engineer who prepared the plat. The name of the subdivision shall be in bolder type than the rest of the title;
(2) The name of the record owner of the land being subdivided and the name of the subdivider;
(3) The boundaries of the subdivision showing the length of its courses and distances to one-hundredths of a foot and bearings to half minutes, having been determined by an accurate survey thereof in the field, which shall close with an error of closure not exceeding one foot in 10,000 feet. The names and locations of adjoining subdivisions or the names of the owners of adjoining parcels of land that may be unsubdivided;
(4) The exact location, alignment, arrangement, and width along property lines of all streets, whether opened or not, intersecting or paralleling the boundaries of the subdivision;
(5) The exact location and material of all permanent reference monuments;
(6) The exact location, alignment, or arrangement of streets and alley lines in the subdivision, the names of all streets, the bearing, angles of intersection and width thereof, including their width along the line of any obliquely intersecting street;
(7) The radius, delta, and arc length of all curves;
(8) The exact location, alignment, or arrangement of all easements provided for use by public service corporations, with a statement of any restrictions or limitations placed on such use;
(9) The exact location, alignment, or arrangement of all lot lines with their dimensions expressed in feet and hundredths of a foot and with their bearings or angles to half minutes;
(10) All lots shall be numbered with consecutive Arabic numerals in each block, and all blocks shall be lettered in consecutive alphabetical order. In case of a resubdivision of lots in any block, the lots shall be numbered with consecutive Arabic numerals, beginning with the numeral following the highest lot numeral in the block;
(11) The exact boundaries of all property to be dedicated for public use, and of all property to be reserved by covenant in deeds for the common use of all owners of lots in the subdivision or otherwise reserved, with a statement of the purpose to which such covenant or reservation is made or such use is restricted or limited;
(12) The location of setback lines;
(13) The delineation of the resource protection area boundary, including the 100-foot buffer component;
(14) Notation of the requirement for pump-out and 100% reserve drainfield sites for on-site sewage treatment systems, when applicable;
(15) The north point with magnetic bearing or if true meridian is shown the basis of its determination shall be stated;
(16) A certificate of the engineer or surveyor who prepared the plat certifying that the plat represents and is based on a survey made by him or her or under his or her direction and supervision; that all monuments shown thereon are actually in place or will be put in place before a date specified by him or her; that their location and character are truly shown on the plat; and that all of the provisions and requirements of this chapter have been observed and fully complied with;
(17) A statement to the effect that the subdivision as it appears on the plat, including the dedication of all streets, alleys, easements, and other land for public purposes and use is with the free consent and in accordance with the desire of the subdivider and of the trustee or mortgagee, or each of them if more than one, in any deed or other instrumentality, if any, creating a lien on the land in the subdivision, or any part thereof, which shall be signed by the subdivider and trustee or mortgagee, and shall be duly acknowledged before some officer, authorized to take acknowledgements to deeds. All cloth prints and transparent copies shall contain such signatures;
(18) A certificate signed by the surveyor or engineer who prepared the plat setting forth the source of title of the owner of the land subdivided and the court in which the last conveyance or source of title is recorded. When the land in the subdivision was acquired by the subdivider from more than one source of title, the land acquired from each source shall be indicated on the plat; and
(19) In a case where private streets have been approved every such plat shall contain the following statement:
“THE PRIVATE ROADS IN THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL NOT BE PAVED OR MAINTAINED WITH FUNDS FROM RICHMOND COUNTY OR FUNDS ADMINISTERED BY THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. IN ADDITION, RICHMOND COUNTY SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION POLICIES WILL NOT ALLOW SCHOOL BUSES TO TRAVEL AND PICK UP CHILDREN ON PRIVATE ROADS. IN THE EVENT THAT OWNERS OF LOTS IN THIS DEVELOPMENT SUBSEQUENTLY DESIRE THE ADDITION OF SUCH PRIVATE ROADS TO THE SECONDARY SYSTEM OF STATE HIGHWAYS FOR MAINTENANCE, THE COST TO UPGRADE IT TO PRESCRIBED STANDARDS MUST BE PROVIDED FROM FUNDS OTHER THAN THOSE ADMINISTERED BY THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OR RICHMOND COUNTY. PRIVATE ROADS IN THIS DEVELOPMENT ARE NOT DEDICATED AND ARE OWNED BY (trust, corporation, property owners’ association).” |
(a) Restrictive covenant. The deed to each tract in a private road subdivision shall carry a restrictive covenant containing the above referenced statement.
(b) Affidavit of buyer. No deed to a tract of land in a private road subdivision shall be recorded unless the same carries an affidavit duly signed and acknowledged by the grantee in said deed to the effect that he or she acknowledges that the roads in said subdivision are private roads and the statement in division (B)(17) above shall apply to the subdivision.
(Ord. passed 8-10-1989; Ord. passed 6-14-2012) Penalty, see § 154.999