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Article 11 — Subdivisions and Land Development, Chapter 11-15 — CORRIDOR MAP

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§ 11-15-1

Purpose and Intent

The purposes of a corridor map are to implement the city’s comprehensive plan, especially transportation and thoroughfare plans, by reserving land needed for future transportation facilities designated by a plan. The corridor map is intended to provide a basis for coordinating the provision of transportation facilities with new development by designating corridors where the construction and improvement of transportation facilities is expected, to restrict the construction or expansion of permanent structures in the intended right-of-way of planned transportation facilities as indicated on a corridor map, and to protect the rights of landowners whose land is reserved on a corridor map.

§ 11-15-2

Definitions

(a)Corridor map: A map adopted by a Governing Body which designates land to be reserved for the construction of future or improvement of existing transportation or linear park and recreation facilities (e.g., greenways). The corridor map establishes the width and termini of corridors as necessary to allow flexibility in planning the design of a transportation facility or linear park and recreation facility.

(b)Reserved land: Land shown on the corridor map as reserved for future public use.

(c)Transportation facilities: Streets, highways, bikeways, sidewalks, and trails.

§ 11-15-3

Findings and Corridor Map Adoption

The Governing Body reserves the right to adopt, after public hearing, a corridor map that is consistent in all respects with the comprehensive plan or plans of participating municipalities.

Prior to adoption of a corridor map, the following actions shall be taken to ensure procedural due process:

(a)Prior to public hearing, if the proposed corridor map includes land intended for transportation facilities to be constructed or improved by the city, a copy of the proposed corridor map shall be submitted to the chief executive officer of the city who shall be allowed 30 days to indicate in writing any reserved land for transportation facilities for which they are responsible that they want removed from the corridor map, in which case such reserved land shall be removed from the corridor map.

(b)At least 15 days before the public hearing, the Director of Community and Economic Development shall notify the public of the date, time, place, and nature of the public hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory of the city.

(c)The Director of Community and Economic Development shall notify all owners of parcels of land that include proposed reserved land of the date, time, place, and nature of the public hearing by mail at least 15 days before the public hearing.

(d)The Governing Body shall hold a public hearing(s) at the date, time, and place advertised, and afford all interested individuals the opportunity to be heard concerning the proposed corridor map.

§ 11-15-4

General Provisions

The Director of Community and Economic Development shall not issue any permit pertaining to zoning or land development on land regulated by this Chapter except pursuant to the procedures and in compliance with this Chapter. This Chapter does not forbid or restrict the use of any reserved land that does not constitute the development of that land, nor does this Chapter forbid or restrict development on the unreserved portion of any reserved land.

§ 11-15-5

Land Development Permit Required to Develop Reserved

Land An owner of reserved land who proposes to develop reserved land shall apply to Community and Economic Development Department for a land development permit. It shall be unlawful to carry out development upon land shown as reserved on the corridor map without securing a development permit as required by this Code.

§ 11-15-6

Public Hearing and Notice on Development Permit

Upon receiving an application for a land development permit involving reserved land as shown on an adopted corridor map, the Director of Community and Economic Development shall arrange for the application to be scheduled for public hearing before the Governing Body. The applicant (and the governmental unit, if land is reserved for a public use by a governmental unit other than the local government) shall be notified in writing of the date, time, and place of the hearing, by written mail, personal service, or facsimile, at least 15 days prior to the public hearing. The public shall be given notice of the date, time, place, and nature of the hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City at least 15 days prior to the public hearing. The applicant shall, at the hearing, have an opportunity, personally or through counsel, to present evidence and argument in support of his or her application, as shall any governmental unit or interested individual that has an interest in the application.

§ 11-15-7

Action

Following the public hearing, the Governing Body may take one of the following actions:

(a)Approve the land development permit as proposed, with or without conditions, modify the mapped corridor to remove all or part of the reserved land from the mapped corridor, and issue with or without conditions the land development permit authorizing development on the land removed from the mapped corridor.

(b)Modify the proposed land development permit application and issue it for development as modified, with or without conditions, if the development can reasonably be accomplished on the subject parcel without encroaching on the reserved land.

(c)Delay action on the development permit for a defined period of time not to exceed three months for the purpose of any of the following: negotiating with the property owner for the purchase of all or a part of the reserved land by the governmental agency responsible for the transportation facilities; acquiring the reserved land voluntarily; acquiring an easement over the reserved land that prevents the property owner from building on the reserved land; taking the reserved land through eminent domain and the payment of just compensation.

§ 11-15-8

Authority to Acquire Reserved Land for Public Use

After consideration of the development permit by the Governing Body, the Governing Body or other governmental unit responsible for the transportation facilities may, but shall not be obligated to, negotiate for the voluntary dedication of the land, enter into option to purchase, or it may initiate condemnation proceedings subject to applicable state laws and use its powers of eminent domain.

§ 11-15-9

Final Action on the Land Development Permit

If the Governing Body delays action on the development permit as provided by this Chapter and the governmental agency responsible for transportation facilities on the reserved land fails to arrange for the legal acquisition of all or a part of the reserved land within the specified time period which shall not exceed three months, then the Governing Body shall approve the land development permit, with or without conditions, or in the absence of such approval, the land development permit shall be deemed approved as submitted.