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17.55.120 REQUIRED IMPROVEMENTS – INSTALLATION17.55.120 Enforcement.All provisions of this chapter are mandatory and may not be altered by the subdivision improvement agreement.The obligations contained in this chapter shall be enforceable by methods of enforcement of ordinance as well ascontract. [Ord. No. 350, §1, 4-7-80. Code 1974 §55.52.110.]17.55.130 Waiver of improvements.Any or all of the provisions of this chapter requiring certain improvements be made or suitable security posted maybe waived provided the planning commission serving as the platting authority makes written findings that all theconditions of either subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section exist:(a)The gross area of the proposed subdivision is less than two (2) acres, and each of the following conditions arecomplied with:(1) Five (5) or fewer lots are created; and(2) Sewage disposal and water can be provided by individual systems and are approved by applicable stateagencies; and(3) Access roads are less than five hundred (500) feet in total length and intersect with a developed right-ofway.(b)The subdivision is such that no more than five (5) parcels of five (5) acres or more each are created and eachof the following circumstances apply:(1) The size, use, zoning or location of the parcels are such that the parcels are not immediately developable;(2) The parcels can be reasonably expected to be resubdivided;(3) Installation of improvements would prejudice the future developability of the land.(c)The subdivision is such that the installation of an improvement or improvements will have no practical valueand said improvements will be unusable for their normal purposes due to:(1) Remoteness and inaccessibility of the property resulting from its location, topography, bodies of waterand other geographical barriers; and(2) Inadequacy or lack of connecting service facilities required to make the improvements functional. [Ord.No. 387, §5, 6-1-81; Ord. No. 350, §1, 4-7-80. Code 1974 §55.52.130.]17-46