Agenda Date: 05/16/2017
Subject:
Title
An ordinance on second reading to amend Title 11, Subdivision Regulations
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Presented By: |
Jocelyn Mills, Community Development Director |
APPLICATION SUMMARY:
The application is a proposal to amend Title 11, Subdivision, specifically related to 11-1 Purpose, 11-6 Definitions, and Chapter 9, Subdivision Exemption.
BACKGROUND:
Generally in land use, zoning codes establish uses and performance standards for each zone district. Subdivision codes provide the process for creating the records of legal land title for establishing lots, via recorded plats. Title 11 is Littleton’s Subdivision code.
A priority has been identified that Chapter 9 of the Subdivision Code, Subdivision Exemption, needs to be updated to best practices used in current day situations. Generally, the last whole code update to the city’s subdivision regulations was during the 1970’s. The Subdivision Exemption Chapter was added into the code in 1979. Attached for reference are Chapter 9, Subdivision Exemption, and also Title 11 in its entirety.
Previous legal advice has allowed the subdivision exemption chapter to be used for subdivision items such as: dividing one lot into two; for lot line adjustments between two lots; and, for reassembling multiple lots into one lot. As such, over the recent years subdivision exemption has been used for all these scenarios.
The proposal to update Chapter 9 is to create a clear, transparent and robust code relative to the platting and replatting of one or two lots. City council held two study sessions on this topic earlier this year - on March 7 and again on April 11th. Council input and direction has incorporated into the proposed ordinance.
On April 26, 2017 Planning Commission recommended approval of the draft ordinance to City Council. Planning Commission comments have been incorporated into the draft. Please see attached draft code amendments.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS:
The purpose to update Chapter 9 is to clarify specific standards and criteria for the establishment of one or two lots. Three or more lots would be required to be processed as either a minor or major subdivision based on the city’s subdivision code (as is currently required).
The proposal for updating Chapter 9 includes:
• Amending the title to “Administrative Plat or Replat for One or Two Lots.”
• Establishing criteria for when an administrative plat or replat can be used.
• Creating standards for administrative plats and replats.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends planning commission approve PC Resolution 05-2017, recommending approval to city council, an ordinance to amend Title 11, Subdivision Purpose, Subdivision Definitions and Chapter 9, Subdivision Exemption.
Planning Commission recommended approval of the draft ordinance at its April 26, 2017 meeting. Their recommendation included the following modifications to the draft code: to further clarify the purpose and intent statement in 11-1-2; modified text to clarify adjacent unplatted parcel in 11-9-2 (A) 4; added further clarification to 11-9-4, 11-9-4 (B), (C) and (D); and, further clarified restrictions in 11-9-2 (B) 3.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends city council approve the amendments to Title 11, Subdivision Regulations.
PROPOSED MOTION:
Proposed Motion
I move to approve on second reading ordinance 13, Series 2017 to amend Title 11, Subdivision Regulations