The Kearney City Council met on June 11, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. in City Council Chambers. The main actions were the unanimous approval of all eight public hearings related to the Saadi First development (land use map amendments, rezoning, final plat, and annexation) and a presentation on the new Buffalo County two‑way siren activation system. The consent agenda and regular agenda items were also approved.
The consent agenda was approved unanimously by roll call vote. Items included:
That you're the current copy of the open meetings act is available for view. It's posted on all the council chambers. Will you take role, please, big mayor Klaus? Here. Present. Nicola? Here. More. Okay, we have no oral communication and no unfinished business. So we'll move right into public hearings one through eight. They can be discussed together, but vote on separately. And they pertain to the application submitted by Milton Associates for Camille Saudi, Windstart Enterprise LLC for the development of Saudi First. Planning Commission recommended approval. Good evening. My name is Craig Bennett, 1111 Central Avenue from Millenni Associates, and here for Windstar Enterprises and with me in the audience too is Camille Saudi for Windstart Enterprises. Of the 36 acres there, and then we're annexing 21 acres. So the existing future land use map from the comprehensive plan shows this area, that same area, which is the 36 acres basically, consisting of some MDR and some MU2. This portion of it, we're asking to amend the uh future land use map from MU2 to MDR. And then this portion of it here highlighted in the blue, we're asking to amend the future land use map from MDR to MU2. So just kind of flip-flopping both of those around. This will be yellow, this will be blue, essentially is what we're asking for. Um so that from the rezoning standpoint, it's all currently AG. And so with this process, even though we're preliminary platting the entire 36 acres, which is shown in yellow here, we're asking to rezone this, even though we're only gonna um final plat half of it essentially. So we'll be getting our rezoning in place and in order uh in advance of uh the next phase that we would have for our planning uh for our final plat. So uh it is currently served with sanitary sewer. There's a big trunk main going down, 27-inch main going down Antelope Avenue, and then along the south side, which is 39th Street, there's an 18-inch sewer main. We'll be utilizing this to serve this uh particular subdivision. Uh there's also a 16-inch water main that's located in uh 39th Street, and we will be extending that 16-inch water main uh along Antelope Avenue, and we'll have eight inch water main throughout. Uh the stormwater, um there are there are some uh it's a very flat area, it's kind of at the cusp of where you go north to the Wood River and south to the Platte River. And so if you've ever been out here in this 39th area, um there's four triangles here on this area, and that's where the drainage kind of circulates and goes back this way, and then if you're south of there, it goes actually south. So um there's really no inlets located in this particular, but it all primarily will end up in this outfall channel on the north side of the solar farm. Um as a point of reference here, there is a um uh hundred year or one percent chance of annual flood, which is the light blue and the um the gray area, there is a portion of it that does poke into it, which is um handled by uh the the levy of the so to speak of the outfall channel, and so that is the point two percent chance. So before you tonight is a rezoning figure for the entire thirty-six acres. We are asking to rezone from AG to C to C3 this portion, ag to R2 this portion, and AG2 C2 that portion, more clearly seen maybe with a little bit of enlargement. Um essentially the north side of what we're showing is C3 is the boundary that I'll show you is where our final plat is. So the rest of this will be unplatted, but we're just asking to rezone it at this time. So when we overlay the preliminary plat, which we show a connection, um the alphabet ended with Z here. So um we start over with a name of Adam Street. So and so there's a system for that which makes really good sense. But this will be known as Adams Avenue. And then this will be an extension of what was already platted here, which would be known as 44th for 41st, sorry, 43rd and 45th Street. So we'll be plating uh what would be known as Adams and 41st Street as a part of our final plat. As I zoom into this. Just as a question, just it's nerdy map geography question. Are we going to name county names going east? Is that what's going on? Yeah, they go in. I'll let Brenda answer that. They do go in Nebraska County names in alphabetical order. So that is how if you there's a chase and a butler and uh I was hoping to box mute and so yes, that is or we can name after former council members.