LBI Minor Subdivisions – A Brief Overview
Minor subdivisions can be a lucrative way to sell real estate on LBI. How to begin – find a lot that can be subdivided into multiple properties. What’s next? Engage a Land Use Attorney and Engineer that has experience in subdividing properties in the location in which you wish to subdivide. If your Engineer, Real Estate Agent and Attorney think that you have a good chance of subdividing and selling the newly created properties move forward. The Engineer will create a minor subdivision plan and the Attorney will complete the subdivision application and submit same with the required funds to the municipality. Once the municipality deems the application complete, they will supply a docket no. and hearing date. The attorney will then notice all owners of property within a 200’ radius of the subject property and also place notice in the municipality’s newspaper of choice. There are several documents that will need to be submitted to the town together with exhibits for the Land Use hearing at which the subdivision application will be heard. Once all town requirements are met for the Land Use Board to hear the minor subdivision application, the attorney and others (typically the Applicant’s Engineer, Applicant’s Professional Planner and the applicants themselves) will appear before the Land Use Board at the designated hearing. The hearings take place at the location designated by the municipality – usually in the municipal building. If the application is approved at the hearing, it is then typically formally approved by the town one month later by a Resolution that is then published in the municipality’s newspaper of choice. Next or during the Resolution process the minor subdivision map is sent to the County for review and approval. If the County approves, the County will sign off, then the owners, the town engineer and others from the municipality will sign off on the minor subdivision plan aka the subdivision map. Once all required signatures are on the map then the map can be filed with the County Clerk’s office. Once the map is filed the subdivision is complete. At this point it is a good idea to do a subdivision deed to also memorialize the subdivision and make clear the new legal descriptions. Then you are ready to sell your new properties! Questions – call me! I have done numerous subdivisions on LBI!
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Deidre Martin
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