Plat committee approves Riverside Garden Farms (Tanner) second replat; requires municipal water connection note

The St. Joseph County Plat Committee voted May 15, 2025, to approve the Riverside Garden Farms (Tanner) second replat subject to staff report comments and with a recorded requirement that the plat include a note directing lots to connect to municipal water.

The requirement is significant because adding a municipal-water connection note on the plat creates a recorded condition tied to future permits and utility connections for the lots created by the replat.

Speaker 2, a Plat Committee member, introduced the replat as "Replat's Riverside Garden Farms, Tanner's second Replat" and asked for a motion to approve "subject to the staff report comments and then also, adding to that subject to a note needs to be added to the plat for lots to connect to the municipal water?" Speaker 3 moved and a second was recorded. On the audio record Speaker 3 said, "Motion to approve subject to staff comments and add note." Speaker 2 then recorded a voice vote of aye and stated the motion carries.

The audio transcript does not provide the full text of the staff report comments or the exact wording of the water-connection note to be added to the plat; those details were not read aloud during the meeting. The committee’s recorded decision establishes the approval and the directive to include the municipal water connection note as a condition for the replat recordation.