An owner of land shall file with the Planning Commission a pencil tracing and five (5) prints of the proposed subdivision, drawn to scale, covering the subdivision layout of the entire area of the owner's lands. This preliminary sketch shall indicate the following:
(a) The owner's name and general description of the location of his land shall appear in the title.
(b) The names of all owners of abutting property and recorded subdivisions showing dedicated street locations when same terminate at proposed subdivision line.
(c) Approximate distances to near-by main or arterial roads.
(d) Approximate locations and the proposed width of new streets.
(e) Approximate location and dimensions of sublots including sublot numbers.
(f) The scale of the drawing and directional point.
(g) Topography of land embraced within the proposed subdivision (County Sanitary Department topography maps may be used for this purpose).
(h) Directional flow of existing and proposed sewers and connections to any existing or proposed sewers outside of the subdivision. If the septic tank method of sewage treatment is proposed to be used, the owner of the subdivision or his agent shall also present evidence that such method will adequately serve the subdivision and will not cause a health hazard or nuisance to any other property.
(i) All easement lines where known, with dimensions and bearings on those covering sewer and/or water installations.
(j) Minimum building setback lines along all streets and rear and side yard lot lines.
(k) Location of existing sewer outlets.
(l) Two prints of the sketch shall be retained by the Planning Commission and the signed tracing with one print shall be returned to the owner. One print of the sketch shall be delivered to the Clerk of Council and one print to the Building Department. If the sketch is approved by the Planning Commission, it shall be signed by the Chairman thereof and the City Engineer.
(m) Show location of sidewalks within proposed subdivisions, when applicable.
(n) Show the kind of trees to be planted, together with approval of the City Arborist that they comply with the Master Street Tree Plan as adopted in Chapter 707.
Within sixty days after the date of submission, or resubmission if a resubmission is directed by the Planning Commission, of the preliminary sketch to the Planning Commission, the Planning Commission shall recommend to Council either approval or reasons for disapproval of such sketch, and within one hundred twenty days from the date of the submission, or resubmission if resubmission is directed by the Planning Commission, of the sketch to the Planning Commission, Council shall officially approve or disapprove such preliminary sketch. The Clerk of Council shall notify the Planning Commission within ten days of Council's approval or disapproval of the preliminary sketch and the reasons for disapproval, or under what changed conditions, if any, approval would be given by Council.
Such approval, if given by Council, shall only be applicable to street and lot locations in general.
The ordinance which accepts the plat for record purposes must indicate the number of lots, sublots or parcels.
(Ord. 19-1979. Passed 5-29-79.)