Plat committee approves minor plats, grants waivers and conditions in St. Joseph County

The St. Joseph County area plan commission’s plat committee approved three minor plats and one replat at its July 16 meeting, granting waivers and attaching conditions intended to address onsite infrastructure and record-keeping issues.

The chair opened the meeting and introduced the first agenda item, the Lily Road Minor subdivision. A committee member moved to grant the requested waivers; the committee approved the motion by voice vote. The committee then approved primary for Lily Road Minor "subject to" replacement of the septic tank, as the chair requested, and the motion passed by voice vote.

The committee next took up the item recorded in the transcript variably as “Lowe’s lilac” and later as “Lowell’s Lilac Road Minor.” The chair asked for a motion to grant waivers; a committee member moved to grant them and the committee approved the motion by voice vote. The committee then approved primary for that subdivision conditioned on correcting the waiver date identified in the application record.

For the replat of the IEC 1 subdivision, the chair noted a waiver on the submittal. The committee granted the waiver and approved primary "subject to" widening the sewer easement shown on sheet 5 to at least 30 feet; the motion passed by voice vote. The committee did not set a separate implementation timeline during the meeting.

The committee approved the minutes from its July 2 meeting by motion and voice vote and then adjourned.

All actions were taken by voice vote; the transcript records affirmative “aye” responses from the chair and a committee member at each vote. No roll-call vote tally was read into the record during the session.