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Mullins Property Woodlawn Road - Final Plat with variances
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SUMMARY: Mr. Mullins is proposing a subdivision of a parcel he owns that front on Woodlawn Road. He is in the process of selling the parcel and adjacent parcels. He wishes to retain the portion where a cellphone tower resides. Under normal circumstances, staff would have recommended that he join the larger lot to his property that is adjacent. However, due to a lot of miscommunications that Mr. Mullins received from the title attorney and the county, regarding who’s jurisdiction the property resides in, city staff is willing to take a different path, so we do not further delay the closing of his property. Mr. Mullins property is located outside the city of Crossville but is within its urban growth boundary. He was scheduled to appear before the County’s Planning Commission last month and found out on the day of the meeting that he was submitting to the wrong Planning Commission. The county was set to approve the plat as presented. Upon review by city staff, several changes were required and variances would be needed. The first variance is for the lack of road frontage for lot 1. A 40-foot ingress/egress/utility easement is proposed. The other variance is for soils and state environmentalist certificate. There is an existing sewer line that fronts the property. Since the property is outside the city of Crossville, sewer is accessible but not available (without annexation). Since the majority of Lot 1 is concrete and a cell tower and all of lot 2 is graveled, there are no suitable soils for septic.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: With the provision of an ingress/egress / utility easement and this variance being granted for a limited access structure in the past by the Planning Commission, staff recommends approval of the variance.
As for soils and the state environmentalist certificate variance, with sewer being accessible but not available along the front and there not being suitable soils for septic, staff recommends approving the variance, but has included a special note on the plat, that should sewer ever be required or requested for either lot, then annexation would be required.
Staff recommends the approval of the plat and variances.
Recommended Action
NECESSARY PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: Approve the plat and variances