Neighborhood Design | Land Division
6. Determining and maintaining legal lot status
ii. Implement a deed restriction or condition, a covenant or court decision.
a. A property owner may request that the department determine whether a lot was legally created. The property owner shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the department that a lot was created in compliance with applicable state and local land use statutes or codes in effect at the time the lot was created. b. In requesting a determination, the property owner shall submit evidence, deemed acceptable to the department, such as: i. Recorded subdivisions, or division of land into four lots or less; ii. King County or City of Sammamish documents indicating approval of a short subdivision; iii. Recorded deeds or contracts describing the lot or lots either individually or as part of a conjunctive legal description (e.g., Lot 1 and Lot 2); iv. Tax records or other evidence, describing the lot as an individual parcel. The department shall give weight to the existence of historic tax records or tax parcels in making its determination. c. Once the department has determined that the lot was legally created, the department shall continue to acknowledge the lot as such, unless the property owner aggregates or merges the lot with another lot or lots in order to:
d. The department’s determination shall not be construed as a guarantee that the lot constitutes a building site as defined in SDC 21.02.060B.6.
7. Removing limitations on nonbuilding lots
Limitations placed on a nonbuilding lot may be removed and the lot recognized by the City of Sammamish as a building lot by approval of a subdivision, short subdivision, binding site plan or alteration of a plat, short plat or binding site plan.
8. Lots created in violation of this Title
a. All contiguous lots created in violation of this Title and that are under the same ownership at the time of application for innocent purchaser status shall be recognized only as a single lot. b. A lot that has been determined to meet the requirements for innocent purchaser status by the City, including filing of a notarized affidavit of innocent purchase with the department on forms satisfactory to the director, shall be treated as follows for purposes of determining zoning compliance and for establishing eligibility for building permits and future subdivisions: i. A lot recognized pursuant to this innocent purchaser provision will be treated the same as a legally subdivided lot if the parcel meets current zoning requirements for access, lot area and lot width;
i. Create a parcel of land that would qualify as a building site; or
44 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code
Effective | January 1, 2022
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