14-4-1 GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

1. CONFORMANCE TO APPLICABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS. In addition to the requirements established herein, all subdivision plats shall comply with the following laws, rules, and regulations. a. All applicable statutory provisions. b. The City zoning ordinance, building and housing codes, and all other applicable laws of the appropriate jurisdictions. c. The Official General Plan, Official Map, Public Utilities Plan, and Capital Improvements Program of the City, including all streets, drainage systems, and parks shown on the Official Map or General Plan as adopted. d. The special requirements of these regulations and any rules of the Health Department and/or appropriate state agencies. e. The rules of the State Department of Transportation if the subdivision or any lot contained therein abuts a state highway or connecting street. f. The standards and regulations adopted by the City Engineer and all boards, commissions, agencies, and officials of the City. g. All pertinent standards contained within the planning guides published by the applicable regional or metropolitan Planning and Zoning Commission or Metropolitan Council of Governments. h. Plat approval may be withheld if a subdivision is not in conformity with the above guides or policy and purposes of these regulations established in Section 14-1-13 of these regulations. 2. SELF-IMPOSED RESTRICTIONS. If the owner places restrictions on any of the land contained in the subdivision greater than those required by the Zoning Ordinance or these regulations, such restrictions or reference thereto may be required to be indicated on the subdivision plat, or the Planning and Zoning Commission may require that restrictive covenants be recorded with the County Recorder in for to be approved by the City Attorney. 3. PLATS STRADDLING MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES. Whenever access to the subdivision is required across land in another City, the Planning and Zoning Commission may request assurance from the City Attorney that access is legally established, and from the City Engineer that the access road is adequately improved, or that a performance bond has been duly executed and is sufficient in amount to assure the construction of the access road. In general, lot lines should be laid out so as not to cross municipal boundary lines. 4. MONUMENTS. The applicant shall place permanent reference monuments in the subdivision as required herein and as approved by a Registered Land Surveyor. a. Monuments shall be located on street right-of-way lines, at street intersections, angle points of curve and block corners. They shall be spaced so as to be within sight of each other, the sight lines being contained wholly within the street limits. b. The external boundaries of a subdivision shall be monumented in the field by monuments of stone or concrete, not less than thirty (30) inches in length, not less than four (4) inches square or five (5) inches in diameter, and marked on top with a cross, brass plug, iron rod, or other durable material securely embedded; or by iron rods or pipes at least thirty (30) inches long and two (2) inches in diameter. c. All internal boundaries and those corners and points not referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be monumented in the field by like monuments as described above. These monuments shall be placed at all block corners, at each end of all curves, at a point where a river changes its radius, and at all angle points in any line. d. The lines of lots that extend to rivers or streams shall be monumented in the field by iron pipes at least thirty (30) inches long and seven-eights (7/8) inch in diameter or by round or square iron bars at least thirty (30) inches long. These monuments shall be placed at the point of intersection of the river or stream lot line, with a meander line established not less than twenty (20) feet back from the bank of the river or stream. e. All such monuments shall be set flush with the ground and planted in such a manner that they will not be removed by frost. f. All monuments shall be properly set in the ground and approved by a Registered Land Surveyor prior to the time the Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval of the final plat. 5. CHARACTER OF THE LAND. Land which the Planning and Zoning Commission finds to be unsuitable for subdivision or development due to flooding, improper drainage, steep slopes, rock formations, adverse earth formations or topography, utility easements, or other features which will reasonable be harmful to the safety, health, and general welfare of the present or future inhabitants of the subdivision and/or its surrounding areas, shall not be subdivided or developed unless adequate methods are formulated by the developer and approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, upon recommendation of the City Engineer, to solve the problems created by the unsuitable land conditions. Such land shall be set aside for uses as shall not involve such a danger. 6. SUBDIVISION NAME. The proposed name of the subdivision shall not duplicate, or too closely approximate phonetically, the name of any other subdivision in the area covered by these regulations. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall have final authority to designate the name of the subdivision which shall be determined at concept plat approval.