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Commissioners approve Darlington family transfer and Sipes mortgage survey exemption requests
Summary
The commission approved a family transfer exemption dividing a 28.2-acre Darlington property among heirs and approved a mortgage survey exemption for a 2.69-acre mortgage tract for Bonnie Sipes; staff discussed DEQ and access easement requirements and a surveyor clarified DEQ review would treat the Sipes property as the full 159-acre parcel.
Broadwater County commissioners voted to approve two separate land-division exemptions during the meeting: a family transfer that divides a 28.2-acre parcel owned by Eileen Darlington into smaller tracts for her children, and a mortgage survey exemption requested by Bonnie Sipes to create a temporary mortgage tract of 2.69 acres.
Nicole Brown, Broadwater County community development and planning director, presented both staff reports. On the Darlington request Brown read that the owner wants to gift two parcels — Tract A1 (9.18 acres) to daughter Cassandra Busca and Tract B1 (10.97 acres) to son Jeff Darlington — leaving an amended Tract A remainder of about 8.05 acres. Brown said the county’s staff report cited Montana Code…
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