§ 12.12.030. Plans—Required—Contents.

All petitions for the laying out, acceptance, dedication, widening, altering or discontinuing of any public street or way shall be accompanied by plans made on tracing cloth and shall state the location, scale, date, name and address of the surveyor.

A.

The plans shall show a north point, the names of adjoining property owners, passageways, official street lines, fences, walls and boundary monuments, by suitable conventional signs.

B.

The scale shall not be smaller than eighty feet to an inch and shall be such as to show all data necessary. The horizontal scale of the profile shall in general be the same as the scale on the plan, and the vertical scale in general shall be five times the horizontal scale. Plans shall show distances, angles and all data necessary to enable the lines of the streets shown thereon to be reproduced upon the ground. Surveys shall be connected with existing streets, and plans shall show sufficient data to accurately and conveniently locate the proposed streets. No street shall be shown having a width of less than forty feet. All profile elevations and grades shall refer to Boston City Base.

C.

The plans shall be accompanied by a written description defining the proposed lines, and shall also be accompanied by a list bearing the signatures of such owners and other persons in interest as may be willing to release all claims and damages against the city for property or other damage which may arise out of the proposed changes in accordance with the plan, together with the amount of the damage. A list of the names of all owners or other persons in interest who may decline to release or state their prospective damages shall be filed also.

(Prior revision § 17-35 (part))