PLACEMENT: Consent
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REQUEST TO OPEN A PORTION OF SE SHARON STREET FOR BUILDING PERMIT ELIGIBILITY
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
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Request to open approximately 105 linear feet of SE Sharon Street in Hobe Sound, and to accept the roadway into the County's road inventory as a publicly owned and publicly maintained roadway.
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DEPARTMENT: Public Works
PREPARED BY: Name: Michelle Cullum, P.E.
Title: Development Review Administrator
REQUESTED BY: Justin Angel
PRESET:
PROCEDURES: None
BACKGROUND/RELATED STRATEGIC GOAL:
The Papaya Village is a recorded subdivision according to the Map or Plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 2, Page 74 of the Public Records of Martin County, Florida. Only portions of the roadways shown thereon were constructed and included in the County's Road Inventory when it was adopted in 1972. Justin Angel purchased a lot within the Papaya Village Plat that does not front an open road and wishes to construct a home on the property. Section 4.843.K of the Martin County Land Development Regulations provides, "In order for a building permit to be issued for the construction of any structure, the lot must directly front on an open road." It is the County's procedure to require roads to be constructed in accordance with the County's standards prior to accepting the roads into the County's Road Inventory, even for roads being constructed in rights-of-way that were platted prior to 1972.
Per Section 4.843.B of the Martin County Land Development Regulations, the minimum required right-of-way width for a local roadway with swale drainage is 60-feet. Section 4.843.B. also provides that variances may be granted by the Board of County Commissioners for rights-of-way within plats that were recorded prior to 1972 where the previously acquired right-of-way is less than the required minimum right-of-way. The Papaya Village Plat was recorded prior to 1972 with right-of-way easement widths of 40-feet.
Accordingly, Mr. A...
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