The Kearney City Council met on January 10, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. in Council Chambers. The meeting included three public hearings related to the Greg Brandt Second Subdivision, a consent agenda with 16 routine items, and regular agenda items concerning funding for the Family Advocacy Network (FAN), a tax increment financing (TIF) redevelopment project, and an open account claim. Council Member Tami James Moore was absent. All votes were unanimous except for the NPPD claim where Mayor Jonathan Nikkila abstained.
Our city council meeting for January 10th. Um please rise. We'll have a moment of silence and and then we'll have the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. And join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation undervisible with the unjustice for all. In accordance with section 841412 of the Nebraska Revised Statute, it's a current copy of the open meetings act is available for review. It's posted on the wall of council chambers. Meggy, we take roll, please. Mayor Clouds. Here. Close cutter. Here. Present. Here. Or absent. And we have no oral communication, no unfinished business, so move right into public hearings one through three, and they can be discussed together but voted on separately. They pertain to the development of the Greg Brant Second Subdivision submitted by Miller Associates for James Gregory Brandt Jr. and Lucas C. Brandt, co-trustee of the James Gregory Bant Brant Senior Administration Trust and meet Reed Miller, trustee of the Reed Miller, Reed A. Miller Revocable Trust, dated July 25th, 2017. Planning Commission recommended approval. Public hearing once consider resolution 2023 amending the land use map for to RE Rural Estates and Agriculture. Public hearing two is considered one. Two ordinance number 8615 vacating the private access road is platted in Brant S Lakewood 7th Subdivision. Three, ordinance number 8616, vacating ingress egress, uh access easements in the Greg Brandt subdivision. And four, ordinance number eighty-six seventeen, vacating lots one, four, five, and six in Greg Brandt subdivision. Public hearing three is considered resolution number 20, 23-2 for the final plat for Greg Brandt second subdivision. Craig? All right, good evening. My name is Craig Bennett, 1111 Central Avenue, and I have in the audience with me Luke Brandt as well for tonight. And I'll just kind of go through this. There's about 33 acres that we'll be talking about. There's a few different parcels that have different acreages. So the property that we're looking at highlighted in yellow here is the 33-acre portion of what was known as the Greg Brant subdivision. So this will be the Greg Brant's second subdivision. We're vacating some of the other lots that were built on and then combining for a total of three lots in this particular subdivision. So the area that we have highlighted in yellow. So the area is within a floodplain and a portion of the property is within the floodway. And so none of that has changed from the previous subdivision that we have there for the 33 acres. Some other things that we're looking at is that this remaining parcel here, which is not highlighted when we platted it as a Greg branch subdivision, was a 20-acre parcel, and at that time was the minimum ag size. And so it was platted and rezoned as A. So it was one lot, and so we're asking to rezone that to be consistent with the adjoining lots, which would be R R1. So tonight we would ask that all of this will then eventually be RR1 with this passing. So the FLU or future land use map that we have shows it to be low density residential or LDR for this portion, and we're asking it to be RE for rural estates for the entire portion, which would have been the all all six lots at that time. So to show should show that boundary the future land use as an exhibit before you tonight shows all the lots one through six as platted currently in the Greg Brant subdivision to be rezoned and have the future land use map changed from LDR to RE, and then the rezoning would only include this lot here, which was known as a lot one of the Greg Brant subdivision to go from AG to RR1. It consists of uh exactly 20.00 acres. Um we would be asking to vacate lot one, lot four, five, and six, and leave lots two and three as they are, and then we'll be re-platting these, which I'll show you here in the in the proposed plat. The common ingress egress easement with lots two and three are owned by uh Reed Miller, and those have a shared ingress egress on the common lot lines as they were platted.