Authorizing ordinances and resolutions that specify a greater number of parcels into which certified survey maps may divide land

This bill authorizes an incorporated city or village (municipality), town, or county that has established a planning agency to enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution that allows a certified survey map to divide land located in the municipality, town, or county into more than four parcels (certified survey map ordinance or resolution) without the division being a subdivision and, therefore, without all of the attendant requirements that apply to subdivisions. The certified survey map ordinance or resolution must specify the maximum number of parcels that land may be divided into by a certified survey map. Before enacting or adopting a certified survey map ordinance or resolution, the governing body of the municipality, town, or county must get the recommendation of its planning agency and hold a public hearing.

The bill provides that a municipality may enact or adopt a certified survey map ordinance or resolution that affects land in its extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction if it has the authority to approve or object to plats within that area.

Extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction is defined in current law as land in the unincorporated area within three miles of the corporate limits of a first, second, or third class city, or within one and one-half miles of a fourth class city or village.

Under the bill, if more than one governing body has authority to enact or adopt a certified survey map ordinance or resolution that affects the same land, which could occur if a municipality enacts or adopts a certified survey map ordinance or resolution affecting land in its extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction, and the certified survey map ordinances or resolutions have conflicting provisions, any certified survey map that affects that land must comply with the most restrictive provisions.