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December 13, 2022 <br />Page 3 <br />A.Subdivision <br />The Subdivision Ordinance provides for the following process: <br />§ 151.08 SUBDIVISION WITHOUT PLATTING. The City Council may waive <br />compliance with the platting requirements of this subchapter and approve subdivision <br />by conveyance of land by adoption of a resolution to that effect based upon findings <br />by the City Council that: compliance with the platting requirements would create an <br />unnecessary hardship or expense because of the nature of the subdivision, and failure <br />to require the filing of a plat does not interfere with the purposes of this subchapter. <br />The City Council may consider the number of parcels resulting from the subdivision, <br />the complexity of the legal descriptions, the necessity for dedication of streets or <br />drainage and utility casements, and the probability of future subdivision of the <br />parcels. <br />Finally, the Subdivision Ordinance prohibits conveyance by metes and bounds <br />description (an unplatted subdivision) when the lots are less than 2.5 acres and 150 <br />feet in width. Both lots in this subdivision substantially exceed those thresholds. <br />As noted in the introduction, the County recording staff have indicated that the north-south <br />boundary was a county mistake; the applicants have provided a copy of the County’s revised <br />half-section map shown the proper configuration: <br />67