County conditionally rejects lot-split plan for 185 West Diaz Avenue over missing utility and signature documentation

The Carbon County Planning Commission moved to conditionally reject a proposed two-lot subdivision at 185 West Diaz Avenue, citing missing utility-lateral locations, absent permanent reference monuments and a lack of required professional seals and signatures on the plan.

A planning staff member reviewed the submission and said municipal water service exists but that plan sheets did not show laterals to the houses or provide the required survey and engineer certifications. The staff member said chapter 18 of the borough’s sewer regulations requires each lot to have separate connections and that no special-permission documentation allowing deviations had been provided.

The applicant’s representative said revised plans and a signature certification had been added and described a temporary easement solution for existing laterals that the applicant expects to replace and extinguish after new laterals are installed. The representative also said the team would provide a revised plan showing the utility laterals.

After discussion, a commissioner moved for conditional plan rejection, and the commission adopted the motion by voice vote. The planning staff member recorded the recommendation as conditional rejection pending resolution of the utility-location mapping, professional seals/signatures and documentation of any temporary easements or special permissions.

Staff asked the applicant to return with the revised, signed plan and to coordinate with borough records to confirm the location of two sewer laterals that staff said exist on borough records but were not shown on the submitted drawings.