Ord #171- Pertaining to Approval Process for Subdivision Exception

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ORDINANCE NO. L7_ THIRD SERIES CITY OF ORONO HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE APPROVAL PROCESS FOR SUBDIVISION EXCEPTION THE CITY COUNCIL OF ORONO ORDAINS: SECTION 1. Article III of Chapter 82 Subdivision Regulations shall be amended by adding the following text to read as follows: Division 5 Exception Sec. 82-200. - Exception. (1) The following land subdivisions are excepted from Divisions 1 through 4 of this Article. Upon request, the Community Development Director shall, within ten days, certify that a proposed subdivision is excepted because: a. all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots or interests will be 20 acres or larger in size and 500 feet in width for residential uses and five acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial uses, or b. will create cemetery lots, or c. is court ordered, or d. is an adjustment of a lot line by the relocation of a common boundary as long as each of the two resulting lots meets the requirements of Chapter 78 and no new non -conformities are created. 1. Adjustment of a lot line by the relocation of a common boundary when one or both resulting lots do not meet the requirements, or other non - conformities are created may be certified following approval of a variance. (2) Procedure for exempted. subdivisions. The owners of such lots to be certified shall file with the zoning administrator a certificate of survey of the lots to be divided, and pay the required fee. Such certificate of survey shall show the dimensions of the lots, as measured upon the recorded plan, the area of the lots, all corner elevations, all existing structures, including dimensions to existing and proposed property lines, all visible encroachments, all easements of record, and their proposed division. A written description of the separately described tracts which will result from the proposed division shall be included on the survey. If the proposed certification complies with all of the requirements of this section, it will be approved by the Community Development Director and forwarded to the county for fling.