A. When Platting Required: All divisions of property or boundary adjustments within the City shall be accomplished through the platting process unless waived by Minnesota Statutes Section 462.358. No conveyance of land by resulting parcels, tracts, lots or interests, without City approval, shall be made or recorded unless the resulting parcels, tracts, lots or interests are twenty (20) acres or larger in size and five hundred feet (500') in width in residential and agricultural districts, and five (5) acres or larger in size for commercial and industrial districts, or unless such parcel was a separate parcel of record at the time of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Title, September 16, 1992.
B. Exemptions From Platting Requirements: The Council, with the advice of the Planning Commission, may waive the platting requirement for a registered land survey in the following cases:
1. Rural Subdivision: The division of a single parcel of land into two (2) separate parcels. The newly created parcels shall meet all requirements of this Title and be located in the R-1, R-2, AG-1 or AG-2 zoning districts.
2. Simple Lot Division:
a. A simple, easily described division or boundary adjustment of a previously platted lot and block of record may be exempted from the full platting requirement, provided the resultant parcels meet all other requirements of this Title.
b. If a land division is exempted from the platting requirement, a registered land survey shall be filed and reviewed subject to the same procedures as are required for the filing of preliminary plat for platting purposes. All registered land surveys shall be prepared in conformance with Minnesota Statutes Section 508.47, subdivision 4, which is incorporated herein by reference. Prior to approval of registered land survey, the Council reserves the right to require the dedication of streets, utility easements or public park land or cash in lieu of land to the City, and payment of utility area charges.
C. Conveyance by Metes and Bounds: When a conveyance by metes and bounds description is made of a parcel to which this Title is not applicable, a survey shall be submitted to the City staff before any building permits will be issued for those parcels. A copy of the survey shall be attached to the deed when it is submitted to the County Recorder of Deeds for recording.