14-5-1 CONCEPT PLAT

Concept plats submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission, prepared in pen or pencil, shall be drawn to a convenient scale of not more than one hundred (100) feet to an inch and shall show the following information. 1. NAME. a. Name of subdivision if property is within an existing subdivision. b. Proposed name if not within a previously platted subdivision. The proposed name shall not duplicate the name of any plat previously recorded. c. Name of property if no subdivision name has been chosen. (This is commonly the name by which the property is locally known.) 2. OWNERSHIP. a. Name and address, including telephone number, of legal owner or agent of property, and citation of last instrument conveying title to each parcel of property involved in the proposed subdivision, giving grantor, grantee, date, and land records reference. b. Citation of any existing legal rights-of-way or easements affecting the property. c. Existing covenants on the property, if any. d. Name and address, including telephone number, of the professional person(s) responsible for subdivision design, for the design of public improvements, and for surveys. 3. DESCRIPTION. Location of property by government lot, section, township, range and county, graphic scale, north arrow, and date. FEATURES. a. Location of property lines, existing easements, burial grounds, railroad right-of-way, watercourses, and existing wooded areas or trees eight (8) inches or more in diameter, measured four (4) feet above ground level; location, width, and names of all existing or platted streets or other public ways within or immediately adjacent to the tract; names of adjoining property owners from the latest assessment rolls within five hundred (500) feet of any perimeter boundary of the subdivision. b. Location, size, elevations, and slopes of existing sewers, water mains, culverts, and other underground structures within the tract and immediately adjacent thereto; existing permanent building and utility poles on or immediately adjacent to the site and utility rights-ofway. c. Approximate topography, at the same scale as the concept plat. d. The approximate location and widths of proposed streets. e. Preliminary proposals for connection with existing water supply and sanitary sewage systems, or alternative means of providing water supply and sanitary waste treatment and disposal, preliminary provisions for collecting and discharging surface water drainage. f. The approximate location, dimensions, and areas of all proposed or existing lots. g. The approximate location, dimensions, and area of all parcels of land proposed to be set aside for park or playground use or other public use, or for the use of property owners in the proposed subdivision. h. The location of temporary stakes to enable the Planning and Zoning Commission to find and appraise features of the concept plat in the field. i. Whenever the concept plat covers only a part of an applicant's continuous holdings, the applicant shall submit, at the scale of no more than two hundred (200) feet to the inch, a concept in pen or pencil of the proposed subdivision areas, together with its proposed street system, and an indication of the probable future street and drainage system of the remaining portion of the tract. j. A vicinity map showing streets and other general development of the surrounding area. The concept plat shall show all school and improvement district lines with the zones properly designated.