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• II (b) Review of the final plat. The staff shall review final plats for conformance with drainage and/or construction plans approved in conjunction with the preliminary plat. Comments will be forwarded to the planning commission for use in final plat review. (c) Approval. Responsibility for final plat approval shall reside with the planning commission, which body shall approve or disapprove the final plat within 30 days of its submittal unless the subdivider agrees in writing to a deferral. No final plat shall be approved until: (1) its conformance with the preliminary plat has been verified and the subdivider and the city have entered into an agreement assuring completion of all required improvements as specified in section 3.15; and, (2) the City Council has accepted the streets included in the plat, pursuant to the provisions of section 3.21. Approval of the final plat shall be accomplished subsequent to an affirmative vote of the planning commission when the chairman of the planning commission signs the certificate of final plat approval as shown in section 2.31 and all fees have been remitted as per section Section 2.6 above. (d) Denial, Any plat submitted for final plat approval not in conformance with the preliminary plat as determined by the planning commission shall be denied. If the final plat is denied, such decision shall be communicated to the subdivider in written form expressing the reasons within five days after such determination is made. • (e) Staging. The subdivider may, and in conformance with the provisions of section 2.3 1, seek final approval for only a portion of the property for which the preliminary plat was approved. For residential plats, however, such stages shall contain at least five percent(but in no case less than five lots)of the total number of lots contained within that phase of the approved preliminary plat seeking final plat approval. (f) Assurance of Completion Instrument. The planning commission may require that the assurance of completion instrument for the public improvements be in such amount as is commensurate with the stage of the plat being filed and may defer additional assurance of completion requirements until additional stages of the plat are offered for filing. (see Section 3.15.Assurance of Completion). Section 15.02.24. Combined preliminary and final plat procedure (a) Submission of combined application. Based upon the preapplication procedure and the requirements for minor subdivisions, lot splits and planned unit developments where no public purpose would be served by separate steps, a combined preliminary and final plat procedure may be authorized in the circumstances and in conformance with the requirements and standards specified in this section. (b) Minor subdivisions. (1) Authorization. The staff may authorize a combined preliminary and final review procedure for minor subdivisions. All plats submitted as minor subdivisions shall require review and approval by the planning commission. • (2) Review and approval. Request for minor subdivision approval shall be made by the owner of the land to the staff. Subdivision requirements shall be the same as those required for final plat. The planning commission shall review the plat. If the final plat is in conformance with the - 154 - Batesville Subdivision Regulations