The Owensboro Metropolitan Planning Commission adopts the Owensboro Metropolitan Subdivision Regulations for Owensboro, Whitesville, and Daviess County, Kentucky. The Subdivision Regulations guide the division of land into appropriate-sized building lots based on zoning and require an adequate distribution of public facilities to service those lots. The Subdivision Regulations are based upon and used to implement the community’s Comprehensive Plan. In particular, they are designed to…
- Encourage the development of sound, healthful, and economically stable residential, commercial, industrial, and public areas
- Provide for safe, convenient, and efficient traffic circulation
- Coordinate land developments in order to insure that our future physical growth will be orderly, efficient, and conducive to the minimum out-lay of public and private expenditures in providing services to new growth areas
- Minimize fire hazards
- Provide for light and air in habitable structures, and
- Provide for the overall harmonious development of our entire community.
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SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
Revised 12/09/2005
DOWNLOAD Subdivision Regulations 403kb
- VIEW Individual Articles 00 Subdivision Regulations: Contents 66kb
- 01 General Provisions and Definitions 111kb
- 02 Minor Subdivision Plat 35kb
- 03 Major Subdivision Plat Procedure 67kb
- 04 Major Subdivision Plat Content 86kb
- 05 Subdivision Design Standards and Improvements 350kb
Appendix A: Owensboro Metropolitan Public Improvement Specifications – Excerpts included for reference:
- 03x Streets [Exhibits Excerpt] 415kb
- 04x Sidewalks, Curb & Gutter [Exhibits Excerpt] 410kb
- 06 Fire Protection Requirements 22kb
