(a) By authority (resolution, order, ordinance) of the Planning Commission of the City of St. Albans (hereinafter referred to as “Commission”) adopted pursuant to the powers and jurisdiction vested through West Virginia Code Chapter 8A, Article 2 and other applicable laws, statues, ordinances, and regulations of the State of West Virginia, the Commission does hereby exercise the responsibility to review and recommend approval or disapproval of plats for subdivision land within the corporate limits of the City which show its, blocks, or sites with or without new streets or highways.
(b) By the same authority, the Commission does hereby exercise the power to recommend to Council to pass and approve or disapprove the development of plat subdivisions of land already recorded in the office of the County Clerk if such plats are entirely or partially undeveloped.
(c) The plat shall be considered to be entirely or partially undeveloped if:
(1) Said plat has been recorded with the County Clerk’s office without a prior approval by the Commission; or
(2) Said plat has been approved by the Commission where the approval has been granted more than three (3) years prior to granting a building permit on the partially or entirely undeveloped land and the zoning regulations, either bulk or uses, for the district in which the subdivision is located have been changed subsequent to the original final subdivision approval.
(Ord. 89-11. Passed 8-21-89.)