153.04 Specifications For Documents To Be Submitted
153.04 SPECIFICATIONS FOR DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED
(a) Plat for primary approval
(1) General
The plat shall be prepared by a licensed land surveyor or licensed professional engineer at a scale of one (1) inch equals one hundred (100) feet. The sheets shall be numbered in sequence if more than one (1) sheet is used, and shall measure twenty-four by thirty-six (24x36) inches.
(2) Features
The plat shall show the following:
(A) The location of property with respect to surrounding property and streets, the names of all adjoining property owners of record and the names of adjoining developments; the names of adjoining streets. This information may be referenced on the plat and provided on a separate sheet.
(B) The location and dimensions of all boundary lines of the property to be expressed in feet and decimals of a foot; including a written legal description of the property proposed to be subdivided. This information may be referenced on the plat and provided on a separate sheet.
(C) The location of existing streets, easements, water bodies, streams, and other pertinent features such as swamps, railroads, buildings, parks, cemeteries, drainage ditches, bridges and sewers.
(D) The location and width of all existing and proposed streets and easements, alleys, and other public ways, and easements and proposed street rights-of-way and building setback lines; including a written legal description of the easements located outside the boundaries of the land proposed to be subdivided.
(E) The location, dimension, and approximate area of all proposed or existing lots.
(F) The location and dimension of all property proposed to be set aside for park or playground use, or other public or private reservation, with designation of the purpose thereof, and conditions, if any, of the dedication or reservation.
(G) A vicinity map showing streets and other general development of the surrounding area.
(H) The name and address of the owner or owners of land to be subdivided, the name and address of the sub-divider if other than the owner.
(I) The date of the map, approximately true north point, scale, and title of the subdivision.
(J) Sufficient data acceptable to the City Engineer to determine readily the location, bearing, and length of all lines, and to reproduce such lines upon the ground; the location of all proposed monuments.
(K) Names of the subdivision and all new streets as approved by the Plan Commission or Plat Committee. The proposed names shall not duplicate any existing names.
(L) Location, sizes, 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-of-way.
(M) Existing covenants on the property, if any.
(N) The lack of information under any item specified herein, or improper information supplied by the applicant, shall be cause of disapproval of the plat.
(b) Construction plans
Construction plans shall be prepared for all required improvements. Plans shall be drawn at a scale of no less than (1) inch equals fifty (50) feet, and map sheets shall be of the same size as the subdivision plat. The following shall be shown:
(1) Profiles showing existing and proposed elevations along center lines of all roads. Where a proposed road intersects an existing road or roads, the elevation along the center line of the existing road or roads within one hundred (100) feet of the intersection, shall be shown. Radii of all curves, lengths of tangents, and central angles on all streets shall also be shown.
(2) The Plan Commission or Plat Committee may require, where steep slopes exist, that cross-sections of all proposed streets shall be shown at not more than one hundred (100) foot sections at seven (7) points as follows: On a line at right angles to the center line of the street, and said elevation points shall be at the center line of the street, at each gutter line of the street, each property line, and points twenty-five (25) feet inside each property line.
(3) Plans and profiles showing the locations and typical cross-section of street pavements including curbs and gutters, sidewalks, drainage easements, servitudes, rights-of-way, manholes, and catch basins; the locations of street trees and street signs; the location, size, and invert elevations of existing and proposed sanitary sewers, and storm-water drains, showing connection to any existing or proposed utility systems; and exact location and size of all water, gas, or other underground utilities or structures.
(4) Location, size, elevation, and other appropriate description of any existing facilities or utilities, including, but not limited to, existing streets, sewers, drains, water mains, easements, water bodies, streams, and other pertinent features such as swamps, railroads, buildings, features noted on the Public Development Plan, at the point of connection to proposed facilities and utilities within the subdivision. The water elevation of adjoining lakes or streams at the date of the survey, and the approximate high- and low-water elevations of such lakes or streams. All elevations shall be referred to the U.S.G.S. datum plane. If the subdivision borders a lake, river, or stream, the distances and bearings of a meander line established not less than twenty (20) feet back from the ordinary high-water mark of such waterways.
(5) Topography at the same scale as the subdivision plat with a contour interval of one (1) foot for areas up to a five percent (5%) grade and two (2) feet for areas over five percent (5%) grade, referred to sea level datum. All datum provided shall be the latest applicable U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey datum and should be so noted on the plat.
(6) All specifications and references required by the City’s Construction Standards and Specifications, including a site-grading plan for the entire subdivision.
(7) Title, name, address and signature of professional engineer and/or surveyor, and date, including revision dates.
(8) Certification by the land surveyor and/or professional engineer who prepared the construction plans that all requirements of this Ordinance have been duly considered and said requirements have been fulfilled or so noted by a written notice of deviation as to the nature of the deviation along with a clear and rational explanation as to why said deviation should be granted and certification by a land surveyor and/or engineer that he will make periodic inspections of the construction of all improvements which will become a part of the public right-of-way and all improvements on easements that may be required by this ordinance to make the subdivision functionally complete.
(9) Written evidence of approval by the Richmond Sanitary District or Wayne County Health Department or the Indiana State Board of Health of the proposed means of sewage disposal.
(10) All subdivision plats containing lands identified, in the Zoning Ordinance, as flood hazard areas shall have the elevation of the 100-year flood listed and shown thereon.
(c) Final subdivision plat
(1) General
The final subdivision plat shall be presented in india ink on tracing cloth or reproducible mylar at a scale of either one (1) inch equals fifty (50) feet or one (1) inch equals one hundred (100) feet and contain the same information, except for any changes or additions required by the Plan Commission or Plat Committee shown on the plat submitted for primary approval. The plat submitted for primary approval may be used as the final subdivision plat if it meets these requirements and is revised in accordance with Plan Commission or Plat Committee’s requirements. All revision dates must be shown as well as the following:
(A) Each final plat submitted to the Commission or Committee for approval shall carry a certificate signed by a Registered Land Surveyor in substantially the following form:
I (Name) , hereby certify that I am a Professional Land Surveyor, licensed in compliance with the laws of the State of Indiana; that this plat correctly represents a survey completed by me on (Date) ; that all the monuments shown thereon shall be set as shown/or actually exist; and that their location, size, type and material are accurately shown.
(SEAL)
(Signature)
(B) Each final plat submitted to the Commission or Committee for approval shall carry a deed of dedication in substantially the following form:
We, the undersigned, being all the owners and lienholders of the real estate shown and described herein, do hereby certify that we hereby lay off, plat and subdivide, said real estate in accordance with the within plat.
This subdivision shall be known and designated as (Name) , (Name) , an addition to (Name) . All streets and alleys shown and not heretofore dedicated, are hereby dedicated to the public free and clear of all liens and encumbrances.
Front yard building setback lines are hereby established as shown on this plat, between which lines and the property lines of the street, there shall be erected or maintained no building or structure.
Easements for installation and maintenance of utilities and drainage facilities are reserved as shown on the recorded plat. Within these easements, no structure, planting or other material shall be placed or permitted to remain which may damage or interfere with the installation and maintenance of utilities or which may change the direction of flow of drainage channels in the easements or which may obstruct or retard the flow of water through drainage channels in the easements. The easement area of each lot and all improvements in it shall be maintained continuously by the owner of the lot, except for those improvements for which a public authority or utility is responsible.
Witness our Hands and Seals this day of , 19 .
State of Indiana
County of Wayne
Before me the undersigned Notary Public, in and for the County and State personally appeared and each separately and severally acknowledge the execution of the foregoing instruments as his or her voluntary act and deed for the purpose therein expressed. Witness my hand and Notarial Seal this day of , 19 .
(C) The following shall be attached for covenants or deed restrictions:
The following covenants (or restrictions) are to run with the land and shall be binding on all parties and all persons claiming under them until January 1, 20 , (twenty-five-year period is suggested), at which time such covenants (or restrictions) shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten (10) years unless by unanimous vote of the then owners of the building sites covered by these covenants, (or restrictions), it is agreed to change such covenants (or restrictions) in whole or part.
Invalidation of any one of the foregoing covenants (or restrictions) by judgment or court order shall in no wise affect any of the other covenants (or restrictions) which shall remain in full force and effect.
The right to enforce these provisions by injunction, together with the right to cause the removal by due process of law of any structure or part thereof erected or maintained in violation hereof, is hereby dedicated to the public, and reserved to the several owners of the several lots in this subdivision and to their heirs and assigns.
(Additional dedications and protective covenants, or private restrictions would be inserted here upon the sub-divider’s initiative or the recommendation of the Commission; important provisions are those specifying the use to be made of the property and, in the case of residential use, the minimum habitable floor area.)
Witness our Hands and Seals this day of , 19 .
State of Indiana
County of Wayne
Before me the undersigned Notary Public, in and for the County and State, personally appeared , and each separately and severally acknowledge the execution of the foregoing instruments as his or her voluntary act and deed for the purpose therein expressed. Witness my hand and Notarial Seal this day of , 19 .
(D) The following shall be attached for certification by the Commission or Committee:
UNDER AUTHORITY PROVIDED BY I.C. 36-7-4-700 THROUGH 36-7-4-713 ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, AND ALL ACTS AMENDATORY THEREOF, AND AN ORDINANCE ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, THIS PLAT WAS GIVEN APPROVAL BY THE RICHMOND CITY PLAN COMMISSION/OR RICHMOND PLAT COMMITTEE AS FOLLOWS:
Approved by the Richmond City Plan Commission/or Richmond City Plat Committee at a meeting held .
President
Executive Secretary
(E) The following shall be attached for Transfer and Recording:
TRANSFER AND RECORDING
Duly entered for taxation this day of , 19 .
WayneCounty Auditor
Recorded this day of , 19 .
WayneCounty Recorder
(F) The following shall be attached when the proposed subdivision is located in the unincorporated territorial jurisdictional area of the City of Richmond, Indiana.
The Commissioners of Wayne County, Indiana, hereby certify that adequate surety has been presented to guarantee the construction of the roadway and that the roadway meets Wayne County standards and will be accepted into the Wayne County roadway system when completed. Certified at a meeting of the Wayne County Commissioners this day of , 19 .
Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner
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