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Key changes commissioners debated: removal of five-year moratorium, limits on BLAs, and easement rules
Summary
During deliberations on March 17 the commission adopted several targeted edits to the draft Boundary Line Adjustment code — including removing a five-year moratorium between BLAs, clarifying treatment of vacated rights-of-way and tax-title strips, allowing up to 10% dimensional deviation or 0.25 acre for minor corrections, and restricting BLAs that would create new split-zone parcels — though the full code ultimately failed on final vote.
The commission’s deliberations produced multiple discrete changes to the staff draft. Staff said it removed a proposed five-year moratorium between boundary-line adjustments after hearing that the moratorium could be overly restrictive in legitimate correction circumstances. The draft also clarifies that vacated rights-of-way are handled through the auditor’s office and that tax-title strips may be combined where appropriate.
Other edits included allowing the director to permit deviations up to 10% or 10,890 square feet (0.25 acre) to accommodate minor fixes, clarifying that BLAs should not create newly split-zone parcels (while allowing BLAs where a property is already bisected), and making technical updates to consistency across Titles 16, 17 and 21 of county code. Many of those edits were recorded in the deliberations matrix and will be reflected in the staff’s updated draft for public comment.
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