Short Plat Exemption

The Short Plat Exemption process allows minor changes to property lines that are exempt from formal platting procedures. 

Common Exemptions

The City of Yakima Subdivision Ordinance (YMC 14.05.160) describes the requirements and details of exemptions.  In summary, the following are exempt:

  • Lot line adjustment
  • Merger of property
  • Testamentary division
  • Financial division
  • Prior division of land
  • Cemeteries
  • Divisions of 40 acres or more
  • Court order

Although these actions are exempt from formal platting review, applications are reviewed to ensure that all lots conform to the requirements of the subdivision ordinance and that no nonconforming lot are created by an exempt activity.  All lots must retain the minimum lot size in each zoning district, as well as appropriate lot frontage dimensions.  No "landlocked" parcels may be created by an exempt action, unless appropriate easements are established or retained.  In general lot line adjustments should not be created to combined areas of two different zoning districts into a single lot.  Lot line adjustments may not create a nonconforming use in a particular zoning district.

City of Yakima Subdivision Ordinance Title 14

Short Plat Exemption Fees: (Ordinance No. 99-13)

$120 (First Two Actions) $25 (Each Additional)  Lot Line Adjustments, Financial Segregations

 

Short Plat Exemption Application