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APPENDIX A-SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE 5-8 These provisions shall apply to all lands within the jurisdiction of the City of Martinsville and identified as being in the 100-year flood plain by the Federal Insurance Administration 5-4. Building site. To ensure that residents will have sufficient land upon which to build a house which is flood free, the administrator may require the subdivider to provide elevation and flood profiles sufficient to demonstrate the land to be completely free of the danger of flood waters. 5-5. Improvements. All improvements shown on the plan or plat shall be installed by the subdivider at his cost and in accordance with city rules and regulations. The plan shall clearly show the dedication for public use any right-of-way which has proposed to be constructed any street, curb, gutter, sidewalk, bicycle trail, drainage or sewerage system, waterline as part of a public system or other improvement dedicated for public use, and maintained by the locality or other public agency, and the provision of other site-related improvements required by local ordinances for vehicular ingress and egress, for public access streets, for structures necessary to ensure stability of critical slopes, and for storm water management facilities. A. Any public and private improvements proposed for installation, operation and/or acceptance after the issuance of a certificate of occupancy shall be noted on the plans. The construction plans shall clearly show the location and timing of any proposed improvements for which deferred installation is requested. 5-6. Zoning ordinance regulations. All subdivisions shall be in accordance with the minimum lot size and all other regulations set forth in the Martinsville Zoning Ordinance. 5-7. Flood control and drainage. The subdivider shall provide all necessary information needed to determine what improve- ments are necessary to properly develop the subject property, including when deemed necessary by the administrator, a topographic map at two-foot contour intervals, drainage plans and flood control devices. The subdivider shall also provide plans for all such improvements together with a certified engineer's or qualified land surveyor's statement that such improvements, when properly installed, will be adequate for proper development. All improvements shall conform with the recommendations of the applicable storm drainage report. The subdivider shall also provide any other information required by the administrator. 5-8. Easements. The administrator may require that easements for access, utilities and drainage through adjoining property be provided by the subdivider. Easements of not less than twenty (20) feet Supp. No. 61 1735