Release of Easement Application – Pima County, AZ

The Release of Easement Application, titled Application for Release of Public Easement on the form, is the Pima County Public Works Administration – Real Property Services form on which a property owner asks the county to release a public easement on their property.

The form identifies the request through 13 numbered items: the owner, the property address or location, the Assessor's Tax Parcel #(s), the Section, Township and Range, the zoning, any subdivision, development name or zoning case number, the plat or plan recording reference, the recording information for the easement to be released, the reasons for the request, the current and proposed use of the property and easement area, the utility providers, and a representative or agent.

The form also lists what must be submitted to Pima County Real Property Services with the application before processing can begin, and sets non-refundable processing fees by type of easement: sewer, utility, construction, access control, slope, drainage and public trail. The amounts are printed on the form.

This application is not the same as a License Application. The county's Licenses page describes licenses, with a License Application and fee, as the tool Real Property Services uses to maintain encroachments along Pima County owned roads and other parcels; that is a separate procedure.

The owner of property that carries a public easement granted to Pima County, and who wants that easement released, completes this application. The form begins with the owner's name and asks for the owner's current and proposed use of the property and the easement area.

• Joint or multiple applicants: the form says that each applicant must include a legal description and map for the portion of the proposed release that applies to them.
• Representatives: item 13, Representative/Agent, has space for a name, phone number, fax number and mailing address. The form prints a signature line only for the applicant.
• Encroachments on county roads: the county's Licenses page describes a separate License Application, and a License Renewal Application when a license has expired, for encroachments along Pima County owned roads. Those are not this form.

The form does not describe any further eligibility rules; contact Real Property Services with questions about your situation.

Submit the application when you are ready to ask the county to release a public easement. The form prints no filing deadline and no expiration date.

Timing is tied to the package: the form states that the items it lists must be submitted to Pima County Real Property Services along with the completed application before processing can begin. Gather the written request, the easement document or title insurance commitment report, the surveyor-stamped legal description and map, and the proof of ownership first, so the county can start work on receipt. The form gives no processing time.

The form says the application and its supporting items go to Pima County Real Property Services; it names no portal or other channel. The office details printed in its header are:

• Address: Pima County Public Works Administration – Real Property Services, 201 N. Stone Avenue, 6th Floor, Tucson, AZ 85701.
• Phone: (520) 724 - 6313.
• Fax: (520) 724 – 6763.

Send the completed, signed application together with every item the form lists: the written request, the easement document (or a title insurance commitment report), the legal description and location map, and the ownership documentation. Processing cannot begin until they are all received. A non-refundable processing fee applies, set by easement type; the amounts are printed on the form, and the form does not say how the fee is paid, so ask Real Property Services at (520) 724 - 6313 before sending it. FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the county's channels above.