[WSBARP] Does vacating a lot extinguish its legal lot status?

[Umar Gebril]

Listmates,

An interesting question has come up this morning: does vacating a lot mean that the owner has relinquished its legal lot status?

My client has applied for a boundary line adjustment, believing they had multiple existing legal lots. In processing the BLA, the county has responded that “The plat [name] was vacated. The owner filed a new division of the land in 1972 under [filing number]. If you want to prove separate legal lot status, please provide a conveyance document (contract or deed) transferring ownership from one owner to another, describing only tax parcel [subject property] on its own, dated prior to 1972.”

Have any of you ever come across a situation like this, where a person has been told by a county that their lot no longer has legal lot status because it had previously been vacated?

Thank you,

Umar

Umar Gebril | Attorney
Cascade Law PLLC
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