(A) These regulations govern the subdividing and developing of land within the corporate limits and the planning area boundary, herein after referred to as “the planning area”, within the territorial jurisdiction of the city, and are adopted in accordance with the provisions of A.C. §§ 14-56-401 through 14-56-426.
(B) By authority of the ordinance establishing the Planning Commission, adopted pursuant to the powers and jurisdictions vested through applicable state statutes, the Planning Commission does hereby exercise the power and authority to review, approve, and disapprove plats for the subdivision of land within the planning area jurisdiction which shows lots, blocks, or sites with or without new streets.
(C) By the same authority, the Planning Commission does hereby exercise the power and authority to pass and approve the development of platted subdivisions of land already recorded in the office of the Washington County Circuit Clerk, if such plats are already platted and undeveloped, with no improvements.
(D) The plat shall be considered to be entirely or partially undeveloped, if:
(1) Such plat has been recorded with the County Circuit Clerk’s office after the effective date of these regulations without a prior approval by the Planning Commission;
(2) Such plat has been approved by the Planning Commission where the approval has been granted:
(a) More than three years prior to the granting of a building permit on the partially or entirely undeveloped land; and
(b) The zoning ordinance, either bulk or use, for the district in which the subdivision is located, has been changed subsequent to the original final approval.
(Ord. 2013-04-417, passed 4-2-13; Am. Ord. 2013-09-440, § 152.100.02, passed 9-3-13; Am. Ord. 2014-12-488, passed 12-2-14)