Travis County Commissioners Court
November 13, 2007
Item 1
Number 1 is a public hearing to receive comments on total vacation and cancellation of a plat in precinct 2, hodde subdivision, one total lot.
>> move the public hearing be open.
>> second.
>> all in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
>> joe geiselman with transportation and natural resource division. The hodde subdivision was a little over an acre, approved in 1984. The owner is asking it be totally vacated. It's being assembled with another tract next to it and replatted as gaddis, a 18-acre subdivision. All property owners have been notified and it does meet Travis County guidelines for subdivision and we recommend approval. I know of no objection to the proposed action.
>> would anyone like to give testimony during this public hearing? If so, come forward.
>> I have a couple of questions just to clarify. I’m sorry, when was the subdivision platted? When was the application?
>> the original one was in 1984.
>> 1984, and nothing has happened on it since then?
>> it was a single resident at the time, yes.
>> okay. Do we have any mechanism for going back through and see if subdivision plats have expired because of failure to act on them?
>> this was a final plat.
>> oh, because they --
>> it is forever.
>> because they completed one. Got it. So they are just -- they are vacating the rest?
>> it was approved in '84. It's an official subdivision. They are coming in and just basically erasing it so it no longer exists as a subdivision. And then they are coming in and assembling some additional property and then going right back to the replatting process.
>> but even after they get a final, if they don't develop, does the final stay in place?
>> yes.
>> do they have to actually build on one of the plats.
>> no.
>> in order to lock it in?
>> no, we have sub that have existed 40 years throughout the county that have never been developed, or sections of subdivisions that have never been developed.
>> okay. Okay.
>> we're canceling the one lot subdivision. It will then become part of a seven-lot subdivision.
>> that's correct.
>> and in action item 22, although there are multiple parts, it's really those two simple things.
>> yes.
>> it will be recommended for consent today.
>> I don't believe I received backup on it.
>> that's the one I e-mailed you.
>> do we need more time?
>> it sounds like a pretty straight-ahead deal.
>> based on the backup, it is. Last night I applauded t.n.r. For being so brief and to the point this time.
>> okay.
>> move the public hearing be closed. All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
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