[Ord. No. 1457 §120, 1-5-1999]
In order to protect the health, safety and general welfare of
the people, the Planning and Zoning Commission will reject any proposed
subdivision located in an area subject to periodic flooding. Whenever
a subdivision is proposed to be located in an area having poor drainage
or other adverse physical characteristics and impairment, the Planning
and Zoning Commission may approve the plat, provided the developer
binds himself/herself legally to make such improvements as, in the
judgment of the Planning and Zoning Commission, will render the subdivision
substantially safe and otherwise acceptable for the intended use.
In this case, the developer shall post with the Commission a surety
performance bond, running to the City of Versailles or other security
acceptable to the Planning and Zoning Commission, sufficient to cover
the cost of such improvements as estimated by the officials having
jurisdiction.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.01, 1-5-1999]
The subdivision layout shall conform to the official Comprehensive
Plan. Unless otherwise approved by the Board of Aldermen, provision
must be made for the extension of main thoroughfares as designated
by the Planning and Zoning Commission, and other major or collector
streets must provide free circulation with the subdivision.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.02, 1-5-1999]
The system of streets designated for the subdivision, except
in unusual cases where land use will not justify same or in other
unusual cases, shall connect with streets already dedicated in adjacent
subdivisions; and where no adjacent connections are platted shall,
in general, be the reasonable projections of streets in nearest subdivided
tracts and shall be continued to the boundaries of the tract subdivided
so that other subdivisions may connect therewith.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.03, 1-5-1999]
A.
The
following shall be the minimum street right-of-way requirements and
utility easements:
1.
Highways and major thoroughfares. Highways and major
thoroughfares as specified in the official thoroughfare plan, not
less than seventy-two (72) feet in any case.
2.
Collector streets. Sixty (60) feet. (Main streets
such as Monroe and Newton Streets)
3.
Local streets. Fifty (50) feet. These streets will
be the intersecting streets to the main streets, such as McNair, Hunter
and Magnolia Streets.
4.
Minor streets, dead-end streets and cul-de-sac streets. Forty (40) feet. All dead-end streets shall terminate in a circular
turnaround having a minimum right-of-way diameter of one hundred (100)
feet, unless the Planning and Zoning Commission approves a "T" or
"Y" shaped paved space in place of the required turning circle. "Minor streets" are defined as streets that intersect local
streets and may possibly not intersect a main street. Pavement on
the turnaround of a cul-de-sac shall be seventy-five (75) feet.
5.
Alleys. Alleys, where platted, shall have a minimum
width of twenty (20) feet.
6.
Utility easements. Utility easements, where required,
shall be at least fifteen (15) feet wide along lot lines. Easements
of adequate width shall be provided for open drainage channels, where
required.
7.
Minimum distance from a residence sidewall to the lot line including
corner lots, shall conform to the requirements provided for in the
zoning ordinance.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.04, 1-5-1999]
A.
Minimum
pavement widths, required to be installed at subdivision expense,
shall be as follows:
1.
Major thoroughfares and collector streets shall be paved twenty-eight
(28) feet. In the case of a major thoroughfare or collector street
requiring pavements wider than twenty-eight (28) feet, the matter
of financial and other arrangements for installing such wider pavements
shall be taken up by the developer with the officials having jurisdiction.
2.
Minor, local dead-end and cul-de-sac streets shall be paved twenty
(20) feet. The pavement of a turning circle at the end of a dead-end
street shall have a minimum outside diameter of seventy-five (75)
feet. A "T" or "Y" shaped paved space, when approved by the Planning
and Zoning Commission in place of a turning circle, shall extend entirely
across the width of the street right-of-way, except for sidewalk space,
and shall be at least ten (10) feet wide with the flared portion rounded
by minimum radii of twenty (20) feet.
3.
Alleys and service drives shall be paved twenty (20) feet.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.05, 1-5-1999]
A.
The
grades of streets shall not exceed the following except that where
unusual or exceptional conditions exist, the Planning and Zoning Commission
may modify these requirements:
1.
Highways and major thoroughfares. Four percent (4%).
2.
Collector streets. Ten percent (10%).
3.
Minor and local streets, service drives and alleys. Twelve percent (12%).
4.
Pedestrian ways and crosswalks. Twelve percent (12%),
unless steps of an acceptable design are to be constructed.
5.
Minimum grade. In no event shall the minimum grade
of any street or alley be less than four-tenth of one percent (0.4%).
6.
Radii of curvature. The radii of curvature on the
centerline shall not be less than four hundred (400) feet for major
thoroughfares and one hundred (100) feet for collector and minor streets.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.06, 1-5-1999]
True bearings and distances to nearest established street bounds,
or other established survey lines, or other official monuments, which
monuments shall be located or accurately described on the plat. Other
established survey or corporation lines shall be accurately monument-marked
and located on the plat and their names shall be lettered on them.
The length of all arcs-radii, points or curvature and tangent bearings;
all easements and rights-of-way, when provided for or owned by public
services (with the limitations of the easement rights definitely stated
on the plat); all lot lines with dimensions in feet and hundredths,
and with bearings and angles to minutes if other than right angles
to the street and alley lines.
A.
All
monuments shall be set in the ground at least to the depth of the
minimum length given, unless they are encased in concrete. The precise
position of corner monuments shall be marked by a point on a cap and
the cap inscribed with the registration number o f the land surveyor
responsible for placement or the corporate registration number or
name of the company. Monumentation shall comply with the following
at a minimum.
1.
Permanent monuments. Two (2) permanent monuments
per subdivision block, adjacent to or located in the right-of-way.
3.
Elevation markers. For subdivisions platted in the
vicinity of floodplains, ponds, lakes, creeks and other major drainage
features, a permanent elevation marker shall be established at location(s)
required by the City to reference and verify minimum finished floor
elevations.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.08, 1-5-1999]
Lots shall be arranged in numerical order. In tracts containing
more than one (1) block, the blocks shall be likewise placed in numerical
order. In the case of a resubdivision of lots in any block, such resubdivided
lots shall be designated by their original number or they shall be
designated numerically, beginning with the number following the highest
lot numbered in the block.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.09, 1-5-1999]
Suitable sites for parks, schools, playgrounds and any other
public requirements should be carefully considered and indicated on
the preliminary plat so that it can be determined which of such sites
should be indicated on the final plat and when and in what manner
such areas will be acquired by the City. Attention is called to the
advantages on a large tract of dedicating a reasonable percent of
the property for such use.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.10, 1-5-1999]
Affidavit and certificate by a qualified registered professional
surveyor shall be provided to the effect that he/she has fully complied
with the requirements of these regulations and the subdivision laws
of the State of Missouri governing surveying, dividing and mapping
of the land; that the plat is a correct representation of all the
exterior boundaries of the land surveyed and the subdivision of it;
that the plat represents a survey by him/her and that all monuments
indicated thereon actually exist and their location, size and material
are correctly shown.
[Ord. No. 1457 §120.11, 1-5-1999]
A certificate shall be issued by the authorized City and County
Officials to the effect that there are no unpaid taxes due and payable
at the time of plat approval and no unpaid special assessments, whether
or not due and payable at the time of plat approval, on any of the
lands included in the plat, and that all outstanding taxes and special
assessments have been paid on all property dedicated to public use.
