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MEMORANDUM
DATE: DECEMBER 2, 1992
TO: MAYOR SALENTINE
PLAN COMMISSION MEMBERS
RULES, LAWS AND ORDINANCE COMMITTEE
FROM: LAWRENCE J. KIRCH, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING'r--)�,
SUBJECT: PROPOSED CHANGE TO THE CITY'S LAND DIVISION ORDINANCE
Attached for your review and recommendation is amended language for
Section 18:2.6 of the City's Land Division Ordinance pertaining to
Floodlands.
Proposed change to the City's Land Division ordinance, Chapter
18 Section 2.6.
Additions are underlined, deletions are marked with an
overstrike.
2.6 LAND SUITABILITY
No Land shall be subdivided for any use which is determined to
be held unsuitable for such a proposed use by the City Plan
Commission, upon the recommendation of the City Engineer or any
other agency as determined by the City Plan Commission for
reason of flooding, inadequate drainage, adverse soil or rock
formations with severe limitations for development, severe
erosion potential, unfavorable topography, inadequate water
supply or sewage disposal capabilities, or any other feature
likely to be harmful to the health, safety, or welfare of the
future residents of the proposed subdivision or of the City. In
addition:
Floodlands. No lot served by public sanitary sewerage
facilities shall have less than 50 percent of its required lot
area, as specified in the Zoning District Regulations below a
elevation at least two (2) feet above the elevation of the
yaps L=t "ll 011(.0 lIL UCLVaL L1UUU, VL wilere 5ucn aaLa is not
available, five (5) feet above the maximum flood of record No
lot of one (1) acre or less in area served by an on -site
sanitary sewage disposal (septic tank or mound) system shall
include floodlands. All lots more than one (1) acre in area
served by a septic tank system or mound system shall contain not
less than 40,000 square feet of land which is at an elevation at
least two (2) feet above the elevation of the one hundred (100)
year recurrence interval flood or, where such data is not
available five (5) feet above the elevation of the maximum flood
of record.
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