The Kearney City Council met on January 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM in the City Council Chambers. Mayor Jonathan Nikkila presided. Council members present: Randy Buschkoetter (Vice-President), Tami James Moore, Kurt Schmidt, and Alex Straatman. The meeting included public hearings on three major proposals: the Marlatt Fourth Addition (primarily a Habitat for Humanity subdivision), the Tech One Fourth Subdivision, and a series of code amendments. All items on the consent agenda and regular agenda were approved with unanimous votes, except one abstention from Council Member Moore on the Village Plaza Second Addition infrastructure agreement.
All right. Join me 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 under God. Indivisible Liberty and Justice Roll. All right. In accordance with section 84 1412 of the Nebraska Revised Statutes. A current copy of the Open Meetings Act is available for review and is posted on the wall of the council meet chambers. Peggy, please take roll. Here. Bush Cutter. Here, Schmidt. Here. Stratman. Here. All right. Thank you. There's no oral communications. There's no unfinished business. So we're going to start with public hearings. The first one, public hearings one through three can be discussed together but voted on separately. They pertain to the applications submitted by Miller Associates for the Carney Area Habitat for Humanity. Kiver LLC, X Huntington, LC, and City of Carney for the development of Marlat 4th Edition Planning Commission recommended approval. Craig. All right. Good evening. My name is Craig Bennett, 1111 Central Avenue, representing all of those same parties that you just uh referenced there for Marlet 4th edition, which is primarily to be known as the Habitat for Humanity Subdivision. And so it kind of just kind of take us through this property here. The area that we're talking about is highlighted by this yellow boundary here. And that is the overall preliminary plat area. So before you tonight, we'll be the rezoning of some of this vacation of some of the other lots that are located in this northern area, which were lots that were platted along the railroad right away when that used to bisect that area. So there's streets and alleys that still exist, and the lot still exists, which are uh owned by uh Cadiver and EX Hunting on this portion here and habitat owning this portion here. And so the combination of these are coming before you tonight as a combined plat, of which will ultimately be the entire property will be habitats when done, uh with the exception of one house that's remaining out there. So it's kind of a nice way to clean this up, so to speak, and so that's what we'll be taking through. It's found on the west by Avenue M and the vacated railroad, which uh the city of Kearney is the owner of that, which is utilized for future stormwater drainage conveyance uh measures. So as we take kind of take a look at it, there's also some lots here that are a part of that area as well. This particular property is a different landowner in uh butting the northwest corner and is not participating along the south side is the last phases that we did, which were known as Marlet uh for second and third, and so this will be the fourth, and we'll be continuing Avenue P northerly into this particular subdivision. Um, as a part of this, the future land use map is um bisected in the middle with LDR, low density residential on the south, and LI for the light industrial on the north, and so we're asking for that to be modified to be all LDR. The existing zoning for this entire parcel is R1. What's before you tonight is to ask for that to be rezoned to R1D. Um, the new zoning district that you guys approved, and we've been using that on some other subdivisions. It's been advantageous for helping us, especially in habitat, get a little bit more condensed footprints on some of the lots. It will also give them some opportunities if they ever um a desire to approach a duplex scenario within some of these lots, and so that has been discussed that it could be a future home type that they would have. And so uh from an existing water infrastructure, we have a four a 24-inch water main on the west side, very similar to what we did on the uh other previous phases. We've been extending water easterly through the subdivision uh to serve this property. The sanitary sewer already has a 12-inch sanitary sewer main that is in a dedicated easement that goes along this pathway and then continues northerly on Avenue O cross other people's property to serve some property that's further north of this. And so we already have this there. There will be assessments that will be applied to this when they connect and plot this stormwater. Uh we have an existing what's shown in this brown line here, uh box culvert infrastructure with a series of inlets that are adjacent on the west side, very similar to what we did in the first phase.