PROPERTY INFORMATION
Water: _____ Public Water _____ Private/Semi Private Well
Sanitary: _____ Public Sewer _____ Private Septic System
Access to Property: _____ County Road (must be at least 120’ of road frontage)
Road Name _________________________________________________________
_____ Easement (must be at least 30’ wide)
Electricity Provider: _________________________________________________________________________
Total Acres
New Tract Name of Property Owner (must be at least 1.0 acres)
1. Administrative Elements: Plans shall include a north arrow, scale, legend, title block with project name,
applicant/owner/surveyor information, date/version number, address and parcel of site, FIRM panel and an endorsement stamp.
2. Signed by a Registered Surveyor: The survey plat of a tract split must be signed by a licensed registered Arkansas surveyor.
3. Reference to Deed of Record: Reference to the parent tract deed of record shall be provided on the plat.
4. Size of Parent Tract: When the parent tract of a proposed tract split exceeds fifteen (15) acres, the survey of the remainder of
the parent parcel may be omitted from the tract split plat instrument provided the following is located and shown on the plat:
(a) an established boundary line (i.e. section line, quarter section line, quarter-quarter section line, etc.); (b) an inset map that
illustrates the relationship of the parent tract to the smaller tract(s).
5. Area or Vicinity Map: The plat must contain a small area or vicinity location map of the property to be divided sufficient to
identify the general area and location of the tract split.
6. Relation of Smaller/Larger Tracts Shown on Survey: All tracts must be shown on the same survey of plat instrument. The
relationship of the smaller to the larger tracts must be shown and each of the tracts must be clearly identified by separate legal
description.
7. Setbacks: The plat must show all applicable setbacks: show a 25’ building setback from the road right-of-way at front (or 50’
from the center of the road, whichever is greater) and 10’ side and rear building setbacks.
8. Site Improvements: Show all applicable site improvements including building, structures and site elements such as property line
fences, walls, wellhouses, proposed easements, utility easements and all other matters of record.
9. Existing lateral line fields and septic information, water wells and utility easements shown: Identify the location of existing
lateral line fields to the extent plottable, septic tank location, clean out, alternate field where indicated by permit from Arkansas
Department of Health.
10. Statement of Non-Assurance from Department of Health: All tract splits must contain a statement that approval of the plat
does not carry any assurances that the tract or tracts will qualify for a septic system permit from the Arkansas Department of
Health
11. Statement of Non-Buildability: Plats shall include the following statement: “Approval of this plan does not in any way indicate
that any of the lots on this plan are buildable according to the Planning Regulation of Benton County, Arkansas, nor an
endorsement by the Planning Board of said buildability of said lots.”
12. Easements: All easements shall be legally described and identified on the plat.
Minor subdivision is the division of land up to five (5) parcels each having a minimum parcel size of one (1) acre. The special
rules and regulations regarding the minor subdivision process are intended to create a procedure allowing smaller subdivision
and family splits to bypass the formal procedures set forth in the major subdivision regulations. See Section 5.4 of the Planning
and Development Regulations of Benton County.
