Portland City Code ch. 14

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14
Parent Document: Portland City Code ch. 14
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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otherwise in compliance with the City of 15.3.8 Effect of subdivision approval
Portland Code of Ordinances. Receipt of the approved copy of the subdivision plat
of the subdivider is not authorization that the
15.3.6 Timing of subdivision review developer may proceed with the construction of
A. Within 30 days of receiving an application, staff any improvements. No construction will proceed
shall notify the applicant in writing either that until the recording plat, meaning a completed
the application is complete or, if it is subdivision plat in form for approval and recording,
determined to be incomplete, the specific including all waivers and a surveyor’s stamp, has
additional materials needed to make it a been approved by the Planning Board and has been
complete application. After the review properly recorded as required in Subsections 15.3.9
authority has determined that a complete and 15.3.10.
application has been filed, it shall notify the
applicant and begin its full evaluation of the 15.3.9 Recording plat approval
proposed subdivision. Consideration of the recording plat shall not take
B. A public hearing shall be commenced within 30 place until the subdivision plat is approved.
days following the receipt of a complete
subdivision application by the review authority. 15.3.10 Recording
The Planning Board shall render its decision on A. Prior to the release of a signed, approved
any application submitted to it within 30 days recording plat, all current charges due under
of a public hearing or such other time as may this article shall be paid.
be mutually agreed to by the Planning Board B. When the recording plat, meeting the
and the applicant. requirements of the City of Portland Technical
Manual, is approved, the subdivider shall pay
15.3.7 Subdivision approval the actual cost of recording and reproduction.
The Planning Board shall approve, approve C. The recording plat shall be recorded in the
conditionally, or disapprove such subdivision office of the Cumberland County Registry of
application at a public hearing. If approved Deeds by the subdivider.
conditionally, the conditions and reasons shall be D. The registry book and page numbers shall be
stated and given in writing to the subdivider and, if transcribed on one mylar copy of the recording
necessary, the Planning Board may require the plat to be sent to the Public Works Authority.
subdivider to submit a revised subdivision plat. If the Unless the subdivider shall record his or her
Planning Board should disapprove the subdivision approved recording plat within three years
plat, the reasons for such action shall be stated and after the Planning Board has approved the
given in writing to the subdivider, and the board subdivision plat, the recording plat approval
may state the conditions under which the proposed shall become null and void. The preceding
subdivision would be approved. sentence notwithstanding, if the Planning
Board's initial approval of a subdivision is based
in part upon the granting of a waiver from any CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 15-3 SUBDIVISIONS

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