Property Owners Asked To Sign On Plat Amendments By C ounty Garfield County commissioners are well on their way to solving problems of landowners in the Clear Creek subdivision area near Panguitch Lake with the upcoming mailout of final agreements for signing by property owners which will straighten out longstanding conflicts between old legal descriptions descrip-tions that failed to accurately describe de-scribe the lands occupied and the correct boundaries of the lands in question. The lands include two 40-acre parcels, Clear Creek Estates Unit 1 and Clear Creek Estates Unit 2 (with Clear Creek Estates Unit 2 Tract B exempted because boundaries bound-aries were all acceptable), some private pri-vate pieces and some metes and bounds parcels. Parcel owners in the affected area will soon be receiving an agreement to sign which will assign a new number to their lots or metes and bounds parcel. When the document is recorded (and the county is waiving waiv-ing recording fees), obstacles formerly faced by the landowners should be eliminated according to County Surveyor Les Barker. Many had been unable to obtain title insurance because they couldn't establish legal boundaries clearly. The county's way of handling the changes is avoiding substantial expense, since it does not require more extensive paperwork and the method will accomplish the same thing as a cumbersome exchanging of deeds would, according to Barker. Because of some inaccurate early surveys conducted many years ago, legal descriptions proved to be incompatible in-compatible with fence lines where landowners believed their boundaries bound-aries to be. Commission chairman Tom Hatch worked with Barker on the project, with one of their biggest challenges the need to guarantee guar-antee access to every property owner. Approximately one-fourth of the new comers have been set said Barker. Bar-ker. The monuments are rebar with the license number of the surveyor, Adams Survey, Cedar City, stamped on a plastic cap. In October 1988, the commis- sion created a special taxing district to provide funds for the project after surveying landowners and assessing their desires. A 70 percent response to their survey showed landowners 95 percent in favor of establishing a special district to provide funds to pay for the project Property owners own-ers were taxed at the rate of $50 a year for a total of about $350 each. Once the district was established, estab-lished, Adams Survey went into the area and gathered field evidence, determining de-termining that the actual acreage was there. Their next job was to make legal descriptions match the possessed part of the land. For example, in one of the subdivisions properties were encroaching onto Forest Service land on the south and onto private properties on the west. Barker said that because the county took the initiative to get the project rolling, its successful conclusion con-clusion is in sight. It had been needed for many years, Barker said, but would have been a frustrating undertaking for any single property owner to get underway. 1 I . . j - I ; ( J A: - - . 4 ' ' ' i ' ' " ' -I : '.,, ..,., i .' 7 ! . . . ; -...j . ' ; V L ' Zl ' County Surveyor Les Barker, Recorder Mamie Hatch, and Commission Chairman Tom Hatch preview amended plats following several years of hard work to clarify confusing property boundaries and legal descriptions in Clear Creek Estates area near Panguitch Lake.