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City of Versailles, MO
Morgan County
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[Ord. No. 1457 §§140 — 140.02, 1-5-1999]
A. 
Number Of Copies And Required Scale. The preliminary plat of the proposed subdivision one (1) black or blue print shall accompany an application in writing to the Planning and Zoning Commission. The horizontal scale of the preliminary plat shall be one hundred (100) feet or less to the inch, and the vertical scale of street and sewer profiles ten (10) feet or less to the inch.
B. 
Vicinity Sketch. A vicinity sketch at a scale of four hundred (400) feet or more to the inch shall be drawn on or shall accompany the preliminary plat. The sketch shall show:
1. 
All existing subdivisions and the street and tract lines or acreage parcels of land.
2. 
The nearest existing highway or thoroughfares, streets and alleys in neighboring subdivisions or unplatted property involved in producing the most advantageous development of the entire neighborhood.
3. 
Section, township and range.
4. 
Any corporation or ad hoc district lines, such as school or water districts, etc.
C. 
Required Information On Plat. The preliminary plat shall clearly show the following features and information:
1. 
Name and code. The proposed name of the subdivision which shall not duplicate or closely approximate the name of any other subdivision in the City of Versailles.
2. 
Designation. The tract designation according to real estate records of the Recorder of the County where located.
3. 
Owners of record. The names and addresses of the owner or owners of record, the developer and the engineer or surveyor.
4. 
Abutting owners. The name of adjacent subdivisions and the names of record owners of adjacent parcels of unplatted land.
5. 
Boundary lines. The boundary lines, accurate in scale, of the tract to be subdivided.
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Streets — other features. The location, widths and names of all existing or platted streets or other public ways within or adjacent to the tract, and other important features such as existing permanent buildings; large trees and watercourses railroad lines; corporation and township lines; utility lines, etc.
7. 
Existing utilities. Existing sewers, water mains, culverts and other underground structures within the tract and immediately adjacent thereto with pipe size and grades indicated.
8. 
Physical characteristics. Topography; contours, normally with intervals of two (2) feet or as may be otherwise required by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
a. 
Soils. Type and extent of soil groups with main soil horizon description.
b. 
Geology. Location, type and extent of subsurface and exposed geological formations.
9. 
Proposed design — street, drainage, etc.
a. 
The layout names and widths of proposed streets, alleys and easements;
b. 
The location and approximate sizes of catch basin, dimensions of proposed lots. Proposed street names shall be established to the satisfaction of the Planning and Zoning Commission representative and the approval obtained from the local U.S. Postmaster and shall not duplicate or closely approximate any existing or platted street names in the City except extensions of existing streets.
10. 
Zoning. Zoning boundary lines, if any; proposed uses of property and proposed front yard setback lines.
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North point, etc. North point scale, date title.
12. 
Deed restrictions. Copies of any private restrictions to be included in the deeds and should be attached to the preliminary plat.
[Ord. No. 1457 §§150 — 150.04, 1-5-1999]
A. 
Final Plat Requirements. In addition to all of the standard requirements for a preliminary plat as indicated in this Chapter, the altered or additional requirements contained below will be required as part of the final plat.
B. 
Number Of Copies And Required Scale. One (1) black line or blue line print of the final or record plat of the subdivision, or of any part of a larger subdivision, shall be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission by the developer together with a written application for approval on forms provided by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The plat shall be drawn at a scale of one hundred (100) feet or less to the inch. Said scale shall be indicated on the plat graphically.
C. 
Approval. No plat of a subdivision shall be recorded unless and until it shall have been submitted and approved by the Commission and Board of Aldermen in accordance with the regulations set forth in this Code so certified by the City Clerk.
D. 
Prepared By Professional Land Surveyor. Every plat shall be prepared by a registered professional surveyor duly licensed by the State who shall endorse upon each such plat a certificate signed by him/her setting forth the source of the title of the owner of the land subdivided and the place of record of the last instrument in the chain of the title and shall cause his/her seal to be affixed on the face of the plat.
E. 
No Contract Of Sale. No person, firm or corporation proposing to make a subdivision within the territorial jurisdiction of these regulations shall enter into any contract for the safe of, or shall offer to sell any subdivision or any part thereof until he/she or it has obtained from the Planning and Zoning Commission approval of the final plat of the proposed subdivision and the approval made a matter of public record. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the dividing or subdividing of land into lots or parcels for the purpose of conveyance within the scope and application of these regulations shall be known as the developer.