1. The preliminary plat fee;

2. A certificate of ownership indicating the date the land proposed to be subdivided was acquired, together with the book and page of each conveyance to the present owner or owners as recorded in the Bethel district recorder’s office;

3. A statement that all taxes and special assessments pertaining to the property have been paid or that a payment schedule satisfactory to the city has been arranged;

4. A list of the names and addresses of the owners of record of all property contiguous to and across a public right-of-way from the proposed subdivision; and

5. Completed applications for all waivers, variances or other special permissions required under this chapter before the preliminary plat may be approved, including the fee required for each such additional special permission.

1. Notation that the plat is preliminary;

2. Date, scale and northpoint;

3. Name of the proposed subdivision;

4. Location of the property by U.S. Survey, section, township and range;

5. The names and addresses of subdivider(s) and the surveyor preparing the plat;

6. Citation of existing covenants, reservations, deed restrictions, trails and easements on the property, if any;

7. Zoning on and adjacent to the proposed subdivision and any other land use designation of this area as established under BMC Title 18;

8. The approximate acreage, dimensions and size of each lot of the proposed subdivision, including rights-of-way and easements, and the number of lots contained therein;

9. Location and size of existing and proposed utility systems or other improvements including but not limited to water, sewer, telephone, cable and electrical in and within two hundred (200) feet of the proposed subdivision;

10. The general location of streams, lakes, other bodies of water, and waterways, swamps, muskeg or marshy areas, drainage and erosion patterns including culverts and other drainage facilities in and within two hundred (200) feet of the proposed subdivision including proposed drainageways and drainageway modifications both within and outside the subdivision;

11. If any portion of the proposed subdivision is located in an area identified as a flood hazard area, a delineation of the one-hundred- (100-) year floodplain, every floodway and drainageway that is delineated within the floodplain, and the information required under BMC 15.08.170;

12. A statement concerning responsibility for construction, operation and maintenance of water supply and sewage collection, treatment and disposal facilities in the proposed subdivision;

13. Recommended or proposed type and location of water sources and sewage treatment or disposal systems on a typical lot diagram in relation to water sources and sewage collection, treatment and disposal systems on adjacent lots or and in relation to present or future city and community systems;

14. A statement concerning future community water and sewage systems derived from the Bethel Water and Sewer Master Plan including an appropriate timetable for their development and the proposed layout of service lines;

15. Representative soil testing, logs and borings prepared by a professional engineer registered in the state in an area and number sufficient to determine whether soils are suitable for surface and storm water drainage, street construction and on-site sewage disposal and to determine street construction and drainage system standards to be applied and the area required for soil absorption systems. If a method of sewage treatment and disposal other than soil absorption systems is proposed, soils borings shall be required only for street and drainage construction engineering purposes. The city engineer may require additional soil testing, logs and borings;

16. Contours sufficient to show topography but in no event greater than five- (5-) foot intervals. If the contour mapping of the subdivision is not available in the digital mapping base of the city, the drawings showing the contours shall also be submitted on disc media meeting the same standards as are required for the disc submission of the final plat. The contour drawing disc may be submitted with the final plat or at any time prior to the submission of the final plat;

17. A surveyor’s certificate in substantially the following form:

Surveyor’s Certificate

I, (surveyor’s name and land surveyor number), on this ______ day of _____, 20__, hereby certify that I am a registered professional land surveyor in the state of Alaska and that this preliminary plat represents a survey made by me or under my direct supervision, and that all dimensional and other details are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

(Seal and signature)