The Kearney City Council met on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. in City Council Chambers, 18 East 22nd Street. The council approved a rezoning, postponed two public hearings, approved the consent agenda and two regular agenda items, and received reports on city projects. All votes were unanimous unless noted.
In accordance with section 84-1412 of the Nebraska revised statutes, a current copy of the Open Meetings Act is available for review. Peggy, can you please take roll? Mayor Nicolas. Here. Bush Cutter. Here. Here. Schmidt. Stratman. Here. Okay. We have no oral communications this week and no unfinished business. So we're gonna move to public hearing one, which pertains to the application submitted by Leanne Brandt, applicant for Countryside Mobile Home Park Inc., owner to rezone property located at 802 East 30th Street. Planning Commission recommended approval. So who's up? Come on up, Lenny. All right. Uh distinguished members of City Council and City Manager Brenda and City Staff. I'm Lynn Brandt. I live at 100. Pardon? I help your power. Please, please. I'm requesting that this property here that's uh outlined in red be rezoned from R1 to District R 1D. And I'm it's been uh approved by the research and development team, and it's also been approved by uh planning commission, and I'm asking uh your blessings on the project also. Okay, thanks, Lynn. Any questions? At least one, please. What do you plan to do with the one house on there right now? What do you plan to do with the house that's on the lot right now? Well, I would like somebody to take it, and uh if I can't get rid of it, I'll have to tear it down. Okay. So that that's my that's my current plan. Okay. And just uh as a question, in the the planning the planning commission asked you if the house was currently occupied, and you said yes. Is there is there a plan for the for the occupants to move or do you have a timeline for when the property will be empty? I told them that I would uh give them at least 90 days, and my plates kind of full right now for a guy my age, and uh that's probably going to be next year that I get around to starting something, so and hopefully I can find something for them or they can find something for themselves. It would be difficult to replace that for them. He drives a semi and there's a nice big lot there to park it in front of. So but uh and and I feel bad about that. In fact, I I visited with Brenda about this on a different occasion about subdividing that lot and leaving the house there and building subdividing the lot instead of not now. They're divided east and west, but divide it north and south, which would give me a 62 by 92 foot lot and and put up uh a single family dwelling there. But I already had my spent my 500 and I've already been through two hoops here, and so now I'm just asking to go ahead and through with that. And if I decide to do that, uh which I probably won't, but if I would decide to do that, uh I can certainly build a single family dwelling in the R1D zone. Yeah, so if if you guys approve this and he were to change his plans by next year, that is something he could still do without requiring another rezoning. You're done with the hoops, yeah. Done with hoops. Done with hoops. Yep. You're done with hoops.