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TO: The Board of County Commissioners FROM:: C—William G. Collins II - Assistant County Attorney DATE: May 4, 1988 SUBJECT: Amendment to Platting Ordinance Please find attached a :proposed ordinance making minor revisions to our requirements for final platting. The second and the third revision are minor and incorporate requirements of Florida Statutes relating to platting. The second simply provides for inclusion of the name of the subdivision within the Certificate of Dedication executed by the owners. The third. revision incorporates a new requirement of Florida law that requires that dedications for utility easements shall also be easements for the use of cable television services. The first revision and perhaps the most important, has to do with the lettering size on plats. As you may be aware if you have ever tried to read a plat which has been photographed on microfilm and then reproduced from the microfilm at half of its original size, It is very difficult to read the printing on many if not most plats. This really defeats one of the functions of recording a plat, i.e., to put the publ-i'c on notice as to the intentions for the future sale and-, development of a particular parcel of land.. To avoid this..prdblem the clerks office and the county surveyor have suggested a minimum character height of 5/32 of an inch which Is the standard size used for Department''of Defense microfilmed materials. I incorporate for your rev.iow'examples of -this size print as well as supporting memorandums from Mr. Cramer and Mr. Woodard which explain the need for this change better -than I can. Attorney Collins noted that at the last meeting surveyor Peter Musick suggested that the problem was not so much the print size but the machine at the Clerk's office which was not capable of enlarging the plats to a readable size, and he felt a new machine might be the solution. Mr. Woodard, Microfilm Manager for the Clerk, is now back from vacation and ready to address this. Rick Woodard confirmed that there is equipment available to blow plats up to 18 x 24 or even larger, but that is not the problem; the problem is that users other than surveyors want the copies 11 x 17 or even smaller if possible. Chairman Scurlock asked what would be the problem with a piece of equipment flexible enough to provide both large and small copies,.and Mr. Woodard pointed out that those who want larger .copies can get a full size blueprint from the original. 23 13 �yc� AUG 9 1988 BOOK rnL 374 L