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ARTICLE_10: MAJOR PARTITIONS MINOR PARTITIONS
SECTION 1001.03 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT FOR PRELIMINARY PLANS
The following are the requirements and standards to which the preliminary plan of a subdivision or partition must conform.
A. Conformity with the Comprehensive Plan
All divisions of land shall conform with the Comprehensive Plan of Baker County with respect to the type and intensity of use, population densities, locations and sizes of public areas, rights-of-way and improvements of streets, and any other aspects governed by Comprehensive Plan goals, policies or maps.
B. Conformity with Zoning Article 3
All divisions of land, regardless of the number of lots or parcels, shall conform in all respects with the applicable regulations and specifications of Article 3, including uses of land, lot size and dimensions, space for off-street parking, landscaping and other requirements as may be set forth.
C. Relation to Adjoining Street System
A subdivision or partition shall provide for the continuation of major and secondary streets existing in adjoining subdivisions or partitions, or for their proper projection when adjoining property is not subdivided or partitioned, and such streets shall be of a width not less than the minimum requirements for streets set forth in these regulations.
D. Redevelopment Plan
1) In subdividing or partitioning land into large lots or parcels which at some future time could be further divided, the Director may require that lots, and parcels shall be of such size and shape, be so divided into lots and parcels, and meet such building site restrictions as will provide for extension and opening of streets at intervals which will permit a subsequent division of any parcel or lot into a smaller size which shall have the minimum lot frontage on a street.
2) No lot in a platted subdivision shall be reduced in size from that shown on the recorded plat if the newly created lot will have less than the minimum lot area for the zone in which it is located.
3) Any lot in a platted subdivision may be enlarged to approximate more closely the minimum lot area for the zone in which the lot is located, provided that no leftover lot areas shall be less than the minimum lot area for the zone.
4) Any person dividing land into large lots or parcels which at some future time could be further divided and still meet the minimum lot or parcel size requirement of the zone in which the land is located shall provide suitable road access to each created lot or parcel so that the future development of each lot or parcel will provide access for redevelopment of the parcels or lots.
E. Replatting of Partitions and Subdivisions
Replatting shall be required in existing recorded subdivisions or partitions rather than using partitioning procedures.
1) A replat will comply with all the provisions of the subdivision or partition standards for a tentative plan, plat and improvements.
2) If the replatted property is within an established subdivision or partition with streets or roads, and utilities in place on or adjacent to the property, then the improvement requirements may be waived by the Director.
3) In the replatting of a partition, the provision that the partition may only create three new parcels is applicable, but parcels will be consecutively numbered even though the numbers may be greater than three. (For example, partition 1 has parcels 1-3, then parcel 3 is divided into 3 parcels with numbers 3, 4 & 5. Later parcel 2 is divided with parcel numbers 2, 6 & 7 and so on.)