What is involved in subdividing land?
Any time you reconfigure land such that you end up with more parcels than you started, that process is going to be subject to the review of some local authority, typically the county or city planning department. Even if you don’t change the number of parcels, any reconfiguring of the lines is likely to be required to meet current lot standards and thereby may be subject to review. While the details vary from county to county and city to city, there are generally restrictions on the size of lots, the dimensions of lots, road frontage, lot density (lots/acre) and many other elements. For subdivisions of a certain size, the subdividing developer may also be required to construct roads and extend utilities to serve the new parcels. For large subdivision requiring grading and the construction of improvements, construction plans must be developed and approved. After construction an as-built survey of the improvements must be performed to show they were built to plan specifications. Finally a
