13-4-303 - Subdivision regulations Adoption. - Tennessee Statutes

13-4-303. Subdivision regulations Adoption.

(a)  In exercising the powers granted to it by this part, the planning commission shall adopt regulations governing the subdivision of land within the municipality. Such regulations may provide for the harmonious development of the municipality and its environs, for the coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or planned streets or with the plan of the municipality or of the region in which the municipality is located, for adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light and air, and for a distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience and prosperity, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur.

(b)  Such regulations may include requirements of the extent to which and the manner in which streets shall be graded and improved, and water, sewer and other utility mains, piping, connections or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. The regulations or practice of the commission may provide for the tentative approval of the plat previous to such improvements and installation, but any such tentative approval shall not be entered on the plat. Such regulations may provide that, in lieu of the completion of such work previous to the final approval of a plat, the commission may accept a bond, in an amount and with surety and conditions satisfactory to it, providing for and securing to the municipality the actual construction and installation of such improvements and utilities within a period specified by the commission and expressed in the bonds, and the municipality is hereby granted the power to enforce such bonds by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies. Such regulations may provide, in lieu of the completion of such work previous to the final approval of a plat, for an assessment or other method whereby the municipality is put in assured position to do the work and make the installations at the cost of the owners of the property within the subdivision.

(c)  Before adoption of its subdivision regulations or any amendment thereof, a public hearing thereon shall be held by the commission.

[Acts 1935, ch. 45, § 2; C. Supp. 1950, § 3407.11; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-603; Acts 2008, ch. 1150, § 10.]