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. 10. To prevent the pollution of air, streams, and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table, and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the city in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of the land. 11. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the city and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features. 12. To provide for open spaces through the most efficient design and layout of the land, including the use of average density in providing for minimum width and area of lots, while preserving the density of development as established in the zoning ordinance of the city. 13. To remedy the problems associated with inappropriately subdivided lands, including premature subdivision, excess subdivision, partial or incomplete subdivision, scattered and low-grade subdivision. Section 15.01.04 Authority The Planning Commission of the City of Batesville (hereinafter "Planning Commission') is vested with the authority to review, approve, conditionally approve and disapprove applications for the subdivision of land, including sketch, preliminary, and final plats. The Planning Commission may grant variances from these regulations pursuant to the provisions of Section 1.12. Section 15.01.05 Jurisdiction • 1. These regulations apply to all subdivision of land, as defined in Section 2. (Definitions),located within the corporate limits of the city or outside the corporate limits as provided by law. 2. No land shall be subdivided through the use of any legal description other than with reference to a plat approved by the Planning Commission in accordance with these regulations. These regulations shall apply to any subdivision that was platted prior to the effective date of these regulations whenever the original subdivider or his successor failed to complete subdivision improvement requirements pursuant to a subdivision improvement agreement entered into when the plat for the subdivided land was approved and the plat contains contiguous lots in common ownership where one or more of the contiguous lots is undeveloped, whether the lots are owned by the original subdivider or an immediate or remote grantee from the original subdivider; except that this section shall not apply if the city has obtained possession of sufficient funds from security provided by the subdivider with which to complete construction of improvements in the subdivision. Whenever the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission is exercised in such situations only the sale, lease, transfer, or development of an undeveloped lot or lots contiguous to a lot or lots in common ownership shall be subject to these regulations. 4. No land described in this Section 1.5 shall be subdivided or sold, leased, transferred or developed until each of the following conditions has occurred in accordance with these regulations: • a. The subdivider or his agent has submitted a conforming sketch plat of the subdivision to the person designated by the Planning Commission; and -141 - Batesville Subdivision Regulations