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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1973, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 33-1, 33-22, 33-55 AND 33-57 (a) (2) PERTAINING TO SUBDIVISIONS. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that Sections 33-1, 33-22, 33-55 and 33-57 (a) (2) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1973, be amended to read as follows: Section 33-1. Authority and purpose. This Chapter is adopted pursuant to the te~ms and provisions of the Code of Virqinia, 1950, as amended. The purpose of this Chapter is to-provide for the harmonious and economic development of the City of Portsmouth; for the orderly subdivision of land and its development; for the orderly development of the general area surrounding such subdivision or section thereof; for the coordination of streets within such subdivision or section thereof with other existing or planned streets within the general area; for adequate provisions for drainage, flood control, light, air and other public purposes; for the adequate and proper installation of streets, drainage, sanitary sewers, water and other utilities and facilities dedicated for public use, and maintained by the City and for the provision of other site related improvements required by local ordinances for vehicular ingress and egress, for public access streets, for structures necessary to insure stability of critical slopes, and for storm water management facilities; for the dedication to the City of land for streets, alleys or other public purposes or the transfer to the City of easements or other rights or privileges; and for the reservation for the City of land to be acquired for public facilities. Section 33-22. Recordation. Unless the subdivider shall record his approved final subdivision plat in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the City within thirty (30) days after the planning director and city engineer have affixed their signatures thereto, the said final plat approval shall be null and void. The subdivider or his agent shall, in writing, inform the planning director of the date on which the said final subdivision plat was filed and note the Map Book and page number thereof. Provided, however, if a subdivider records a final plat which may be a section of a subdivision as shown on an approved preliminary plat and furnishes to the City a certified check, cash escrow, bond or letter of credit in the amount of the estimated cost of construction of the facilities to be dedicated within said section for public use and maintained by the City, the developer shall have the right to record the remaining section or sections shown on the preliminary plat for a period of five (5) years from the recordation date of the first