§ 9-603. Administrative procedures for the approval of subdivision plats.

The categories of modifications qualifying for administrative approval or certification under this section are:

(1)

The realignment or shifting of lot boundary lines, not creating additional lots, including removal, addition, alignment, or shifting of interior lot boundary lines, or the redesignation of lot numbers provided the application meets the following requirements:

(a)

Does not involve the creation of any new street or other public improvement.

(b)

Does not involve more than two acres of land or ten lots of record.

(c)

Does not reduce a lot size below the minimum area or frontage requirements established by ordinance.

(d)

Otherwise meets all the requirements of the subdivision regulations and zoning ordinances.

(e)

Parcels of land where a portion has been expropriated or has been dedicated, sold or otherwise transferred to the parish or municipality, where leaving a severed portion of the original property which requires a redesignation of a lot number and establishment of new lot boundary lines.

(2)

A request for the modification provided for in this section shall be in writing, submitted by the owner(s) of the property seeking such modifications. This application shall clearly set out the facts that show that the application meets the criteria required in this section. The application shall be signed by the owner(s) or his/her designee.

(3)

The application shall include six original copies of a plat showing the modification applied for herein. Such plat shall be certified as true and correct by a registered Louisiana Land Surveyor.

(4)

Such application shall be accompanied with a processing fee for such approval. This fee will be established by resolution of the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Abita Springs.

(5)

Upon determination by the Chairman of the Planning Commission for the Town of Abita Springs, the Town Engineer, and the Mayor of the Town of Abita Springs that the application and plat submitted under this section comply with its provisions, each shall sign the plat submitted.

(6)

All plats approved as certified by an administrative procedure provided for herein, shall designate such fact on the plat and the plat shall be recorded in the conveyance records of the Parish of St. Tammany. The legal effect of such plat shall not occur until such recordation. Any plat so approved shall have the same force and effect and legal status of a subdivision application approved by the established legislative process.

(Ord. No. 273, 9-21-04)