Portland Land Use Code

Citation: Portland Land Use Code 14.
Parent Document: Portland Land Use Code
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/a5dcd1dc-4117-40b3-b3da-74a56919e14b ↗

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14.3.6 Timing of subdivision review B. When the recording plat, meeting the
A. Within 30 days of receiving an application, staff requirements of the City of Portland Technical
shall notify the applicant in writing either that Manual, is approved, the subdivider shall pay
the application is complete or, if it is the actual cost of recording and reproduction.
determined to be incomplete, the specific C. The recording plat shall be recorded in the
additional materials needed to make it a office of the Cumberland County Registry of
complete application. After the review Deeds by the subdivider.
authority has determined that a complete D. The registry book and page numbers shall be
application has been filed, it shall notify the transcribed on one mylar copy of the recording
applicant and begin its full evaluation of the plat to be sent to the Public Works Authority.
proposed subdivision. Unless the subdivider records the approved
B. A public hearing shall be commenced within 30 recording plat within three years of the
days following the receipt of a complete Planning Board’s approval of the subdivision
subdivision application by the review authority. plat, the recording plat approval shall become
The Planning Board shall render its decision on null and void. The preceding sentence
any application submitted to it within 30 days notwithstanding, if the Planning Board's initial
of a public hearing or such other time as may approval of a subdivision is based in part upon
be mutually agreed to by the Planning Board the granting of a waiver from any of the
and the applicant. applicable subdivision standards, no such
waiver shall be valid unless that fact is expressly
14.3.7 Subdivision approval noted on the face of the recording plat and in a
The Planning Board shall approve, approve certificate. The recording plat and certificate
conditionally, or disapprove such subdivision shall conform to the requirements of 30-A
application at a public hearing. If approved M.R.S. § 4406, and both the recording plat and
conditionally, the conditions and reasons shall be certificate shall be recorded in the Cumberland
stated and given in writing to the subdivider and, if County Registry of Deeds within two years of
necessary, the Planning Board may require the final subdivision approval.
subdivider to submit a revised subdivision plat. If the
Planning Board should disapprove the subdivision 14.3.9 Sectional recordings
plat, the reasons for such action shall be stated and Following subdivision plat approval, the Planning
given in writing to the subdivider, and the Planning Board may permit the subdivision to be divided into
Board may state the conditions under which the two or more sections for recording purposes
proposed subdivision would be approved. subject to any conditions that the Board deems
necessary in order to ensure the orderly
14.3.8 Recording development of the plan. A sectional recording plat
A. Prior to the release of a signed, approved shall constitute at least 20% of the total number of
recording plat, all current charges due under lots contained within the approved subdivision, and,
this article shall be paid. in addition, shall show the entire tract or parcel CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 14-3 SUBDIVISIONS

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