Alley vacation
Hello! Long time creeper…first time poster ???
Long story short, homeowner selling his house ?? legal gets kicked. Recorder says it needs a new boundary and legal description.
Property is a simple rectangle, being the rear portion of two sublots with half the vacated alley along the west.
Piece of cake. Draw it all up and submit to the tax map office for preapproval. Reviewer at the tax map office says nope??we need a replat instead. In his words, the replat is because the vacated alley is becoming part of the lots, effectively changing their dimensions from the original plat. -I don’t share this viewpoint-
I ask if that??s standard practice and maybe I was just unaware of this requirement… Nope…they have been requiring resurveys for vacated alleys/streets, but the replat is a new direction they’re taking and will include it in the next revision of our conveyance standards.
Thoughts? How do y??all politely handle these encounters?
Any legal/title thoughts about the ??new direction? they??re taking?
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