TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Dustin Anderson, Director of Community Development
SUBJECT:
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Ordinance Approving Amendments to the Subdivision Regulations Regarding Final Plats
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BACKGROUND:
The City's Subdivision Regulations are adopted by ordinance to guide the process by which land is subdivided for the purpose of providing orderly, planned, efficient, and economical development of the City. For most subdivisions, three different plats must be submitted before subdivided land is recorded with Will or Kendall County. These plats include the preliminary, final, and recording plats. The proposed amendments to Section 3.3(A) of the City's Subdivision Regulations pertain to application procedure requirements with the final plat portion of the subdivision process.
Construction Plans are documents that are submitted during the subdivision process that allows City staff to verify how the proposed site will be modified with respect to site topography, roadway and sidewalk construction, utility infrastructure, and several other related site design elements. The goal is to ensure that the proposed design of these elements meets the City's required construction standards and specifications.
One proposed amendment to the City's Subdivision Regulations will require subdivision applicants to obtain approval of construction plans from City staff, prior to submitting final plat petitions. Currently, these plans are submitted and reviewed simultaneously with the final plat. Staff believes that the final plat review process will be accelerated if construction plan details are finalized prior to final plat submittal. Changes to a site's construction plans can often result in material changes to the final plat. With construction plans pre-approved, these issues should be minimized during staff's final plat review.
Another proposed amendment is to eliminate the requirement for paper copies of the final plat. The City moved to an online submittal process (ProjectD...
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