On Tuesday, May 3 the Fallon City Council voted to approve relinquishing two unused public utility easements during their regularly scheduled bi-monthly meeting. The city received two requests from D.R. Horton which were presented to the council by Deputy City Attorney Trent deBraga.
The first request concerned an easement that runs through eight blocks in the Diamond Creek subdivision near Serpa Place and Coral Drive. The parcel map for the property was originally created and recorded in 1993 and amended in 1995. The second request was for an easement recorded on a 2001 parcel map for the Northgate subdivision located at Keddie Street and Tamarac Court.
According to deBraga, city staff was able to determine that no utilities are located within either of the two 10-foot-wide easements. As the city does not own the easements, they don't need to go through the formality required by NRS 270.480. Therefore, the city can execute the relinquishment or quit claim deed to eliminate the easements with each of those documents being recorded with Churchill County.
Councilwoman Kelly Frost asked, “What was the original purpose of the easements?” to which deBraga responded, “The Serpa Place easement was recorded on a parcel map where it looked like the drainage easement had to do something with where an old ditch used to be. In general, it was just a blanket utility easement that was included along with the parceling of that land.”
When Mayor Ken Tedford asked about the second request, deBraga replied, “Again, I think it was just the blanket public utility easement. Just from looking at the maps, it appears that when the property was parceled, the standard 10-foot utility easement was included, but again it was never used by the city.”
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