§ 13-9. Registered land surveys and conveyance by metes and bounds.

(a)

Registered land surveys. It is the intention of this section that all registered land surveys in the city should be presented to the planning commission in the form of a plat in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter for plats and that the planning commission shall first approve the arrangement, sizes, and relationship of proposed tracts in such registered land surveys, and that tracts to be used as easements or roads should be so dedicated by separate instrument. Unless a recommendation has been obtained from the planning commission and approval from the city council, in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter, building permits will be withheld for buildings on tracts which have been so subdivided by registered land surveys and the city may refuse to take over tracts as streets or roads or to improve, repair or maintain any such tracts unless so approved. All registered land surveys shall be subject to all of the requirements of this chapter for plats, except where inconsistent with state law pertaining to registered land surveys.

(b)

Conveyance by metes and bounds. No conveyance of two or more parcels in which the land conveyed is described by metes and bounds shall be made or recorded if a parcel described in the conveyance is five acres or less in area and three hundred feet in width or less, unless such parcel was a separate parcel of record at July 5, 1979. Building permits will be withheld for buildings on tracts which have been subdivided and conveyed by this method and the city may refuse to take over tracts as streets or roads or to improve, repair or maintain any such tracts.