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I ! I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 9.50.05 Registered Land Surveys. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to all registered land surveys within the City and the standards, regulations and procedures hereof shall govern the Subdivision of land by registered land survey. Building permits shall be withheld on tracts which have been subdivided by unapproved registered land surveys and the City shall decline to accept tracts as streets or roads or to improve, repair or maintain such tracts within an unapproved registered land survey. 9.50.06 Procedural Variances Subdivision 1. Hardship. The Board of Appeals may adopt a resolution to grant a variance from the procedural requirements of this Section where strict compliance with these requirements may cause a practical difficulty or undue hardship, provided that a variance may be granted only if the variance does not adversely affect the spirit and intent of this Chapter. Subd. 2. Procedure. Written application for a variance shall be filed with the Zoning Administrator on forms supplied by the City and shall state fully all facts relied upon by the applicant. The application' shall be supplemented with maps, plans or other data which may aid in an analysis of the matter. A fee shall be charged for variance applications as set by Council resolution. Subd. 3. Board of Appeals Action. No variance shall be granted by the Board of Appeals unless it shall have received the majority vote of the Board of Appeals. The Council shall make written findings and conclusions of its action on the variance application, which findings and conclusions shall be adopted by Resolution. 9.50.09 - .30 9.50.07 Filing and Recording Conveyances Subdivision 1. Restriction on Filing and Recording Conveyances. No conveyance of land shall be filed or recorded if the land is described in the conveyance by metes and bounds or by reference to an unapproved registered land survey made after April 21, 1961 or to an unapproved plat made after these regulations become effective. The foregoing provision does not apply to a conveyance if the land described: a. Was a separate parcel of record on April 28, 1972; Was the subject of a written agreement to convey entered into prior to April 28, 1972; and Was a separate parcel of not less than two and one-half (2-1/2) acres in an area and 200 feet in width on January 1, 1966, was a single parcel of land not less than five acres and having a width of not less than 300 feet on April 28, 1972 (or is a single parcel of land not less than 20 acres and having a width of not less than 500 feet). 9.50 Subdivision Regulations 9-25 March 2003 Draft -403-