(a) General Suitability of Land for Development. If the Planning Commission and the Village Council find that the land proposed to be subdivided unsuitable for subdivision development due to flooding, poor drainage, topography or inadequate water supply, wastewater treatment facilities, transportation facilities, or such other conditions as may endanger health, life or property, and if, from investigations conducted by the public agencies concerned, it is determined that, in the best interest of the public, the land should not be developed for the subdivision proposed, the Planning Commission and the Village Council shall not approve the land for the purpose unless adequate methods are advanced by the subdivider for solving the problems that will be created by the development of the land.
(b) Projection of Improvements. Where adjoining areas are not subdivided or developed, the arrangement of streets and utilities in new subdivisions shall make provision for the proper projection of streets (i.e., provide for temporary dead-end streets and utilities where street connections can be made to the adjacent land) as required by the Village Administrator. Such arrangements shall be made to the subdivision boundary or up to the edge of the phase of buildable lots.
(c) Topography, Floodplain Areas, Wetlands, and Natural Areas.
(1) Natural amenities (including views, mature trees, creeks, riparian corridors, rock outcrops, and similar features) shall be preserved and incorporated into the proposed development to the greatest extent feasible.
(2) All subdivisions of land and installation of public improvements involving areas subject to flooding, as defined by National Flood Insurance Program Maps and Data, shall conform to all applicable floodplain regulations and the requirements of adopted regulations involving the Village's participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.
(3) Land which is determined by the Planning Commission to be unsuitable for subdivision or development due to flooding, the presence of Federal Jurisdiction Wetlands, or other features which will reasonably be harmful to the safety, health, and general welfare of the present or future inhabitants of the subdivision and/or its surrounding areas shall not be subdivided or developed unless methods adequate to resolve the problems are formulated by the developer and approved by Village Council, upon recommendation by the Planning Commission and upon the advice of the Village Administrator.
(4) The natural topography shall be retained wherever possible in order to reduce excessive runoff onto adjoining property and to avoid extensive regrading of the site.
(5) A subdivision shall be planned so that as many lots as possible will be above the street grade. On irregular topography, streets shall be designed to avoid extensive cuts and fill and to comply with grading standards hereinafter established for private driveways and yards as well as for the streets. Streets approximately parallel to contour lines shall be adjusted so that the lots on one side of the street will not be excessively below the street grade.
(d) Homeowners' or Property Owners' Associations. See Section 1109.06(b)(9)D for requirements for homeowners' or property owners' associations.
(e) Subdivision Names. The proposed name of the subdivision shall not duplicate or too closely approximate phonetically the name of any other subdivision in the Village or Lorain County. The Village shall have final authority to designate the name of the subdivision.
(f) Debris and Waste. No cut trees, diseased trees, timber, debris, earth, rocks, stones, soil, junk, rubbish, or other waste materials of any kind shall be buried in any land or left or deposited on any lot or street at the time of the issuance of a building permit or authorizations to proceed following zoning compliance review. No items and materials as described in the preceding sentence shall be left or deposited in any area of the subdivision at the time of the dedication of public improvements.
(g) Monuments and Markers.
(1) A monument shall be accurately placed at each corner, at changes in the direction of the boundary at each street intersection, at points of curves of streets, at intermediate points and corners of lots, and at other locations as may be required by the Village Engineer.
(2) The monuments shall be either concrete, six (6) inches by six (6) inches by thirty (30) inches long, with an iron pin in the center, or metal monuments, as approved by the Village Engineer.
(3) The top of the monument shall be set at the finished grade upon the completion of the grading of the streets and the lots.
(4) Property pins shall be set at all lot corners, points of tangency, and points of curvature.
(Ord. 2879. Passed 10-23-23.)