Chapter 16.08
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS
Sections:
16.08.020 Application required for lot line adjustment approval.
16.08.030 Permit decision and appeal process.
16.08.040 Review and approval criteria.
16.08.010 Scope.
This chapter is established to accommodate minor alterations in the locations of lot boundaries of existing lots and to establish the criteria for the Town Planner and Town Council to evaluate such changes. [Ord. 2016.01 § 2, 2016].
16.08.020 Application required for lot line adjustment approval.
To be considered for lot line adjustment approval, the applicant must submit the following:
A. A completed project permit application pursuant to WMC 15.04.060;
B. A survey with:
1. The name, address, telephone number and seal of the registered land surveyor or engineer;
2. The date of the survey;
3. A vicinity or location sketch;
4. The existing and proposed lot lines;
5. Contour lines at two (2) foot intervals or other data acceptable to the Town Engineer;
6. The location of all permanent buildings, wells and wellhead protection zones, watercourses and their buffers, bodies of water, all overhead and underground utilities, railroad lines, municipal boundaries, township lines, and other important features existing upon, over, or under the land proposed to be altered; and
7. The new locations of any features that are proposed to be moved as part of the lot line adjustment;
C. A title report for each parcel proposed for lot line adjustment; and
D. An application fee, as specified in this title. [Ord. 2016.01 § 2, 2016].
16.08.030 Permit decision and appeal process.
The Town Council shall render decisions on lot line adjustments pursuant to the procedures specified in Chapter 15.04 WMC. [Ord. 2016.01 § 2, 2016].
16.08.040 Review and approval criteria.
A. The Town Planner shall review lot line adjustments as necessary to ensure compliance with the standards below and provide a recommendation to the Town Council to approve, approve with conditions, or disapprove the lot line adjustment. The Town Planner shall make written findings that the declaration of lot line adjustment shall not:
1. Increase the number of lots;
2. Diminish the size of any lot so as to result in a lot of less area than prescribed by zoning or other regulations;
3. Create a subdivision alteration, as contemplated in RCW 58.17.215 as now or hereafter amended, by actions that include the following:
a. Creating or diminishing any easement recorded on the plat or short plat;
b. Diminishing or impairing drainage, water supply, sanitary sewage disposal, and access, including fire protection access, to any lot; or
c. Amending or violating the conditions of approval for a previously platted property;
4. Increase the nonconforming aspects of an existing nonconforming lot;
5. Replat, or vacate a plat or short plat; or
6. Reduce a setback or lot width below the minimum required by the zoning code.
B. In the event a proposed lot line adjustment creates a lot that has five (5) or more corners, the Town Council shall base the approval or denial on whether the lot shape is necessary or desirable due to factors including, but not limited to, critical areas, topography, natural features, street layouts, access, or existing parcel boundaries. The Town Council may deny the creation of lots with five (5) or more corners if the primary purpose of the lot shape is to meet minimum lot size or dimension requirements.
C. Unless an applicant for a lot line adjustment approval requests otherwise, a lot line adjustment shall be processed simultaneously with applications for rezones, variances, planned unit developments, site plan approvals, and similar quasi-judicial or administrative actions to the extent that procedural requirements applicable to these actions permit simultaneous processing pursuant to WMC 15.04.050. [Ord. 2016.01 § 2, 2016].