This chapter may provide for the reservation of school sites in accordance with comprehensive land use plans approved by the planning agency. In order for this authorization to become effective, before approving such plans the planning agency and the Board of Education with jurisdiction over the area shall jointly determine the specific locations and size of any school sites to be reserved, which information shall appear in the comprehensive land use plan. Whenever a subdivision is submitted for approval which includes part or all of a school site to be reserved under the plan, the planning agency shall immediately notify the Board of Education, and the Board shall promptly decide whether it still wishes the site to be reserved. If the Board of Education does not wish to reserve the site, it shall so notify the council or planning agency and no site shall be reserved. If the Board does not wish to reserve the site, the subdivision shall not be approved without such reservation. The Board of education shall then have 18 months beginning on the date of final approval of the subdivision within which to acquire the site by purchase or by initiating condemnation proceedings. If the Board of Education has not purchased or begun proceedings to condemn the site within 18 months, the subdivider may treat the land as freed of the reservation.
(Ord. passed 6-7-2021)