(A) The town’s Planning Board shall be the administrator of this chapter. The Planning Board shall be responsible for plat approvals and any other duties consistent with the administration of this chapter. The Planning Board shall report any violations of any provisions of this chapter, of which it is aware, to the Board of Aldermen with its recommendation to prevent and remedy such violations.
Any development approval granted by the Planning Board shall be in writing. The town may issue development approvals in print or electronic form. Any development approval issued exclusively in electronic form shall be protected from further editing once issued. Applications for development approvals may be made by the landowner, a lessee or person holding an option or contract to purchase or lease land, or an authorized agent of the landowner. Unless provided otherwise by law, all rights, privileges, benefits, burdens, and obligations created by development approvals made pursuant to this chapter attach to and run with the land.
(B) After the effective date of this chapter, no subdivision plat of land within the jurisdiction of the town shall be filed or recorded until it has been submitted to and approved by the town’s Planning Board, and until this approval is entered in writing on the face of the plat by the signatures of the Town Clerk and Mayor.
(C) The County Register of Deeds shall not file or record a plat or subdivision of land located within the territorial jurisdiction of the town that has not been approved in accordance with these provisions, nor shall the Clerk of Superior Court order or direct the recording of a plat if the recording would be in conflict with this section.
(Ord. passed 11-8-2010; Ord. passed 5-11-2021)