Bluff council adopts Resolution 98 to correct unnumbered parcel; survey exhibits to be attached

The Bluff Town Council adopted Resolution 98 on March 17 to formalize a boundary line adjustment for a small triangle parcel that San Juan County identified as a ‘gap in map’ without an assigned parcel number. Mayor Josh Ewing and councilmembers reviewed attorney-recommended edits and agreed the resolution should refer to the site as a tract with the legal description taken from a 2020 survey.

Council members discussed including two exhibits with the resolution — Exhibit A, the original survey, and Exhibit B, the resulting boundary line adjustment — and debated whether to attach a draft warranty deed signed by the parties. Staff and attorneys flagged that the resulting parcel description is appropriate for recording while a warranty deed describing the portion to be conveyed could create confusion; the Council elected to proceed with the resolution and attachments as described.

The adjustment is related to a concurrent conveyance from the Podmore property owners to James Sayers that staff said will help correct misaligned Cottonwood subdivision surveys. Council members noted San Juan County’s general map is shifted by approximately 1,015 feet and that hiring a surveyor could further clean up local mapping inconsistencies.

Britt Hornsby moved to adopt Resolution 98 and the motion passed unanimously; Hornsby will sign the document and staff will send it to James Sayers for recording at the county offices.

The action completes a procedural step to resolve the unmapped tract; recording at the county is the next administrative step noted by staff.