I'd like to call the Plan Commission meeting to order on Monday, March 2nd, 2026.

First item on the agenda is roll call.

Commissioner Squire here.

Commissioner Ballerman.

Commissioner Madare?

Here.

Commissioner Bonskill?

Here.

Commissioner Don Guerra.

Here.

And Commissioner Williams.

Here.

Six present.

We have a form.

Thank you.

Moving to the approval of minutes, which fall under consent and sonless seeing otherwise, so moved.

Moves us to item number three, the approval of final plats and certified survey maps and easement releases.

There are none to review this evening.

Item number four set for public hearing is a zoning property located between U.S.

Highway 14 and the northern northernly terminus of Hemingway Drive to R1, single and two family residence district and B3 General Commercial District upon annexation.

And that public hearing is when is okay.

Thank you.

I'm looking to see where that would be.

Correct.

Okay.

Which moves us to item number five, old business.

There is none to review this evening.

Item number six, new business, the preliminary plat of Cinder Fields first edition.

Okay, good evening, Planning Commission, Treymeyer Planner.

On the agenda this evening, we have a request for approval of a preliminary plat for Cinder Fields first edition submitted by Backyard Properties of Rock County LLC.

The subject property is located west of North Hankey Road and north of East Rotomer Road.

You can see the plat area outlined in yellow on the screen.

Although the Platte area is located within the town of Harmony, approximately one half mile from the current municipal boundary, it is still within the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction and thus requires Plan Commission review and approval.

The applicant proposes to subdivide 56.8 acres of land into 27 rural residential lots, ranging from one to two and a half acres in size.

The preliminary plat represents the second phase of residential development within this area.

The city's comprehensive plan future land use map designates this site as planned neighborhood, and there is no approved neighborhood plan for the area.

Property is located within the city's urban service boundary.

However, there are several factors that inhibit the city's ability to serve the Platte area at the present time.

Currently, the Platte area is at the eastern edge of the urban service boundary and not immediately adjacent to the city limits or existing public utilities.

In order to provide public utilities to serve the property, existing water and sanitary services would need to be extended a considerable distance within existing public right-of-way or other established utility corridors.

There are three outlots shown on the proposed preliminary plat.

Outlots two and three would be maintained for the conveyance and management of stormwater runoff by a homeowners association to be created for the subdivision and also would allow for access to Spauldings Pond from Keto Way.

Out lot four is a largely unbuildable parcel that partially encompasses surface water at the northwest corner of Swaldings Pond.

As noted in the conditions of approval, staff are recommending that approval of the plat be conditioned upon the right-of-way dedication for keto way extending to the plat boundary, as the current plat shows the right-of-way ending prior to the plat boundary.

This phase of subdivision plating would extend keto way to a dead end length of roughly one mile as measured from North Hankey Road, and no secondary point of access to the Cinderfield subdivision would be available at this time.

Although the subdivision ordinance does not establish a standard for maximum street length without secondary access, this does present concerns related to emergency response operations, which was touched on in our staff memorandum.

In response to those concerns, the developer has prepared a future conceptual development plan to better illustrate how the public streets within the Cinderfield subdivision may be interconnected with a future expansion of residential development to the west.

In doing so, additional access points into and through the subdivision could be created in an incremental fashion.

It's important to note that this approach is not a typical of a rural residential subdivision development, particularly when adjacent tracts of land are owned by different parties.

The exact arrangement of streets shown on this exhibit will require further refinement in conjunction with future plating, and staff have not reviewed this concept to apply specific ordinance requirements at this time, as the plan is intended to simply demonstrate that the necessary street connections can be made.

In general, stormwater will sheet drain into either the public streets or into drainage swales within drainage easements, which then carry the water towards a stormwater management facility.

The combination of stormwater management facilities depicted on the exhibit illustrates that the preliminary design for regional stormwater management in the area to the west will not adversely affect the lots within the preliminary plat area.

Construction of keto way through the plat area would include a temporary turnaround facility located at the western terminus of the street, as you can see depicted on this plan.

Any easements requested by the engineering division and private utility companies having rights to serve the public area would need to be added to the final plat.

A variety of drainage easements are shown for the emergency conveyance of stormwater runoff and stormwater management facilities are shown.

The plat also includes areas which are characterized by wetlands or natural drainage ways, and staff are recommending that plat approval be conditioned upon the conveyance of the necessary easements and restrictions over these areas.

Additionally, the plat area falls within the Rock County Shoreland Overlay District, and a note should be affixed to the final plat to reference that circumstance.

Planning division recommends that the plan commission approve the preliminary plat subject to the conditions listed in the staff memorandum.

And we do have attorney Mark Robinson in attendance to represent the requests.

You can answer any questions you may have for him.