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• :7 CITY OF LA PORTS INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM • T0: John Armstrong Assistan ttorney FROM: John Jo Director` mmunity Development DATE: November 2 1985 SUBJECT: Request for Legal Opinion Regarding the City's Development Ordinance (Ord. #1444) and its Relationship/Applicability to Previously Approved Subdivisions Item 4~5 of the Planning & Zoning Commission Agenda of November 7, 1985, considered final plat approval of Plane View Subdivision. Due to the lack of written documentation on the subdivision, the • absence of the developer's representative and their proposed final plat, there was general discomfort among the Commission members. Therefore, the final plat approval for the Plane View Subdivision was tabled until the December meeting and Staff was instructed to provide additional information. After listening to the tape of the November 7 meeting, I feel that the major issue is defining the relationship of this Commission and the Development Ordinance to previously approved but unrecorded subdivision plats. Earlier discussions with your office indicated that subdivisions previously approved by the proper governing body or authority should, in general, proceed to completion according to those approvals. Unfortunately, Staff has not been able to document the proceedings of the Lomax Planning and Zoning Commission or the Lomax City Council regarding Plane View Subdivision. Therefore, our knowledge regarding the approval of Plane View Subdivision is based on verbal history, correspondence from the developer's engineer and the fact that some of the proposed subdivision improvements have been constructed. Our research, however, did turn up a copy of Lomax's Land Subdivision Regulations (Ord. 4101) which may be helpful in determining the status of Plane View Subdivision. r~ U