CLIFTON — Meeting in special session on Monday, Oct. 25, Clifton Planning and Zoning Commission approved “minor development/replat application to the City of Clifton” documentation submitted by Jerry Cash and Bobby Joe Conrad — with conditions.

The meeting was set to consider the documentation and make sure that it conforms to Local Government Code, Ordinance 77.

Chairman Paul Mangham said that he had prepared a short list of non-issues that had been presented and noted that the hydrology report that had been mentioned was not required.

One question considered was the concrete driveway that splits Lot 12, and is split by the purchase of the property by Cash.

Although P&Z member Sheila Welsh had signed a Texas Conflict of Interest Affidavit and was not seated at the board table, her husband, Ned Welsh, requested to address the board. He said that Lot 12 and 11 would have to  be included in the replat. He also questioned the replat saying that the west side should be rededicated for public use, and that the streets are not where they were originally dedicated.

“The new survey is inadequate,” Welsh said.

Cash responded that City Manager Charles McLean had worked with the surveyor to make sure that the survey was correct.

“That was the legal description of the property that was platted. Those are the lines that we bought and that were legally deeded to us,” added Bobby Joe Conrad. “That is actually what we have on the ground. We bought the lot and the 50-plus feet by legal description.”

Board member Craig Wickman noted that the stamp by the surveyor certifies the plat.

City Attorney Phil Robertson suggested that though, legally, the Lot 7 alley still exists, it does not call for a rededication and it is not an issue for the P&Z.

Welsh demanded that it is necessary for Herman Foust to replat his portion of Lot 12, as it was a portion of the property replated by Cash and Conrad, and that Foust would have to sign the contract for the replat.

After the board went point-by-point through the replat documentation, and approved it, a motion was made, at the urging of Attorney Robertson, to approve the replat as it stands, with the condition that Foust’s portion of Lot 12 is also replated and that Foust signs the replat document.