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Subdivision or boundary line adjustment or ???
There are three tracts as shown in the sketch below. #1 is going to be developed, but they want to add #5 from #2, and #6 from #3, and also give #4 to #2. There are currently no buildings at all on #1, and single houses on #2 and #3. What is the best way to do all of this? The final subdivision will show the tract being developed as a single entity (#1 + #5 + #6 – #4). In a discussion with the engineers doing the design, one says there should be three subdivision plats filed before the development plan, showing #3 and #6 on one, #1 and #4 on another, and #5 and #2 on the third, and then transfer the lots created back and forth. #3 has a sanitary sewer, and so does #1. Not sure about #2, I don’t think it does. #6 will not have any lots on it as part of the development (open space and entrance road), but #5 will have lots. #4 is pretty much to provide access from the new road to #2. His thoughts are that the three subdivision plans will then have the correct acreage for #2 and #3 (for tax purposes), and the final subdivision plan at the end will have the correct acreage for #1, although that won’t matter because it will create a 100 or so developed lots with new houses, which will individually pay taxes. Another engineer says we are just moving the boundary lines, and a subdivision is not needed, but that doesn’t really make sense to me. I am not familiar with the county or municipality, so I don’t know what their regs are, but I believe it is up to the municipality to specify how they want it done, and I told them to get a ruling from the planning commission in the municipality. But, a formal subdivision plat (with setbacks, sewer requirements, etc) seems like a lot of hoops to jump through to trade some acreage back and forth.
Just curious how this would be handled other places.
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