A. This title shall apply to the division, alteration, adjustment, and vacation of land for sale, lease, transfer, or building development into two or more lots, tracts, or parcels by the means specifically provided for herein. As part of the Lacey Municipal Code, this title recognizes and incorporates the standards, provisions, and regulations contained in other parts of the Lacey Municipal Code as it exists now or as it may hereafter be amended. As such, approvals granted pursuant to this title shall only occur in compliance with these regulatory provisions, as well as with all elements of the city of Lacey and Lacey Urban Growth Area Comprehensive Plan, City of Lacey Development Guidelines and Public Works Standards, concurrency requirements and any other applicable laws and regulations. Where provisions of other official controls and regulations overlap or conflict with the provisions of this title, the more restrictive provisions shall govern.

B. Any survey, plat, short plat, replat, or plan hereafter made of a proposed division, alteration, and vacation of land pursuant to this title or any part thereof shall be presented for approval and be recorded as prescribed by this title. No such map, plat, replat or plan shall be recorded or have any validity unless or until it is approved as may be required by this title. No person shall sell, lease, transfer or offer to sell, lease or transfer any lot, tract or parcel subject to the requirement of this title without first receiving approval hereunder and filing a map of the approved division with the Thurston County auditor; provided, that if performance of an offer or agreement to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer a lot, tract, or parcel of land is expressly conditioned on the recording of the plat containing the lot, tract, or parcel, the offer or agreement is not subject to RCW 58.17.200 or 58.17.300 and does not violate any provision of this title. All payments on account of an offer or agreement conditioned as provided in this section shall be deposited in an escrow or other regulated trust account and no disbursement to sellers shall be permitted until the plat is recorded.

C. All records and surveys in connection with any plat, short plat or binding site plan shall be in conformance with Chapter 58.09 RCW. (Ord. 1520 §11, 2017; Ord. 1369 §2, 2011; Ord. 1235 §1, 2, 2005).