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July 20, 2020 page 20 The following provisions apply to subdivisions: 811 (1) Improvements. All public and/or private improvements required by the city to be completed by 812 the subdivider after final plat approval shall be fully set forth in a development contract to be 813 executed prior to final plat approval. All local streets in plats where sewer and water are not 814 available shall be private unless otherwise approved by the city at preliminary plat approval. The 815 city reserves the right to determine whether a road is to be public or private in all areas of the city. 816 All improvements shall meet or exceed the minimum standards as illustrated on the Orono 817 Standard Construction Details, as amended and adopted by the Orono City Council from time to 818 time. 819 (2) Public roads. Public streets and roads will be required to be platted, constructed and dedicated 820 to the city when required by the council consistent with the recommendations of the planning 821 commission and the city staff and the established city practices and design standards. Public roads 822 shall be subject to the conditions of a development contract to be executed prior to final plat 823 approval. 824 (3) Private roads. When the preliminary plat has been approved on the basis of a private access road 825 providing the only access to three or more lots, the private road shall be identified on the final 826 plat as a separate outlot. The private road shall be identified by name if the road serves four or 827 more lots. Whenever a private road outlot is proposed, the subdivider shall be required to provide 828 for a permanent homeowners' association or road maintenance agreement acceptable to the city 829 in order to ensure ownership and maintenance of the road outlot. 830 (4) Road and utilities easements. The council may require the subdivider to convey to the city certain 831 road and utility easements permitting public ingress, egress and access over private roads as a 832 condition of final plat approval. 833 a. Whenever a private access road is authorized, the required outlot shall be included on and 834 conveyed in a road and utilities easement in the standard city form. 835 b. Whenever areas of the plat are to be set aside for public or private utility construction and 836 use, such areas shall be described and dedicated for public use on the plat. This shall include 837 areas shown on record plat drawings as drainage and utilities easements. 838 c. Whenever a road and utilities easement is required, the easement shall be fully executed prior 839 to final plat approval, using the legal descriptions of the final plat, and shall thereafter be 840 filed in the chain of title of the property concurrent with the filing of the final plat. 841 (5) Flowage and conservation easements. The council may require the subdivider to convey to the 842 city a flowage and conservation easement restricting the use, improvement and development of 843 certain portions of the land to be subdivided. Flowage and conservation easements will be made 844 a condition of final plat approval as follows: 845 a. Whenever any open water, creek, stream or natural drainageway occurs in any portion of the 846 subject tract, the floodplain or floodway of the lake, pond, stream, creek or drainageway 847 shall be described as a drainage easement subject to a flowage and conservation easement to 848 the city. 849 b. Whenever any wetlands, marshlands or lowland acting as a stormwater retention area occurs 850 within any portion of the subject tract, that area shall be described consistent with established 851 flood or water retention elevations, soil type characteristics and vegetation characteristics as 852 a drainage easement subject to a flowage and conservation easement to the city. 853 c. Flowage and conservation easements may be described and conveyed by metes and bounds 854 with the ownership and maintenance responsibilities remaining with the individual parcels. 855