In the laying out of a subdivision, the subdivider shall comply with the following principles and requirements:
(a) The subdivision layout shall conform to any Major Street Plan in effect at the time of submission of the plat.
(b) Whenever a tract to be subdivided embraces any part of a principal or secondary street, such part of such street shall be platted by the subdivider in its existing location and at the width indicated in Section 1246.03.
(c) Where a proposed park or other recreational area, school site or other public ground shown on any Major Street Plan, in effect at the time of submission of the plat, is located in whole or in part within the proposed subdivision, such proposed public ground or park shall be dedicated to the Village or reserved for acquisition by the Village within a period of three years by purchase or other compensatory means according to law.
(d) Private streets shall not be approved nor shall public improvements be approved for any private street.
(Ord. 1965-17. Passed 7-20-65.)
(e) Names of new streets shall be approved by the Commission, unless a new street is a continuation of, or in alignment with, an existing or platted street. House numbers shall be assigned in accordance with the house numbering system in effect in the Village.
(Ord. 1994-31. Passed 1-17-95.)
(f) All remnants of lots must be added to adjacent lots, rather than allowed to remain as unusable parcels.
(g) Lots subject to flooding and lots deemed by the Planning Commission to be uninhabitable, shall not be platted for residential occupancy, nor for such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property or aggravate the flood hazard, but such land within the plat shall be set aside for such uses as shall not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation or shall not produce unsatisfactory living conditions.
(Ord. 1965-17. Passed 7-20-65.)