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Planning members weigh formalizing town road rights-of-way and review subdivision edits; attorney options discussed
Summary
Planning members discussed drafting an ordinance to confirm legal rights-of-way for roads the town has long maintained (to avoid costly resurveying), reviewed a subdivision application with edits required by county and fire, and asked staff to prepare maps and a draft ordinance for future review.
Members discussed a proposal—raised by a member referencing a request from Donnie—to have planning draft an ordinance recognizing existing town roads where the town has been maintaining them but lacks formal recorded rights-of-way. The suggestion is intended to provide a low‑cost approach to regularizing roads the town already uses rather than paying for full surveys in every case.
A member summarized the attorney’s guidance: the town can either formally survey and record rights (costly) or pursue a simpler ordinance to document long‑established town roads; members asked staff to identify streets that lack formal rights‑of‑way and to label them for clarity.
Members discussed a commonly used standard width and the idea of placing a survey marker in the middle of a road when future improvements occur; one member referenced a suggested standard of 66 feet from center (33 feet each side) as a workable rule of thumb for the ordinance.
Separately, committee members reviewed edits to a subdivision plan (referred to as the 'Darren' plan), noted required signoffs from county engineer and fire district, and agreed to circulate markup notes to the applicant so those technical changes can be addressed.
No ordinance was adopted at the meeting; members directed staff to prepare a draft ordinance and to label current streets lacking recorded rights‑of‑way so the issue can be taken up in a future meeting.
