The Kearney Planning Commission met on January 20, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. in City Council Chambers. Chairperson Dave Malone presided. Roll call established a quorum. The commission approved the minutes of the December 16, 2022 meeting, then considered a storm water and drainage easement vacation and three related items (rezoning, preliminary plat, and final plat) for the Spruce Hollow West subdivision. Under reports, members discussed a 36% decline in single-family building permits and other community development topics. All votes on agenda items were unanimous.
Okay, I'm gonna call this meeting on the planning commission to order and ask for a roll call, please. Dart. Here Malone. Here. Scott Pandorf? Here. Cochrane. Here. Ya. Here. McGuinness. Here. We have a quorum. Uh, in accordance with section 841412 of the Nebraska revised statutes, current copy of the open meeting act is available for review and is posted on the wall of the council chambers. Um all have copy of the minutes of uh December 16th. The motion in regards to those would be in order. Mr. Chair Person, I would move that we approve the minutes of the meeting held on December 16th, 2022 as so written. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion changes, corrections, etc. Uh motion or roll call, please. Malone. Scott Pandor. Aye. Cochrane. Aye. Yaw. Hi. McGinnis. Aye. Dart. Aye. We have uh a few items on our agenda today. If you're participating in this, please step to the podium and give us your name and address. And as also please stay in contact with the microphone so we get a record of things. The first item that we have, uh, item number four on our agenda is uh a stormwater and drainage easement vacation 2023-01. Um this is an application to vacate a stormwater and drainage easement and a parcel of property or a couple of parcels of property located in northeast Carnia, 6216 K Avenue and 6302 K Avenue, west of the intersection of K Avenue and 63rd Street. The legal identification of the lots is listed in the agenda. Uh very good for the record. Uh, my name is Mitch Humphrey with Buffalo Surveying Corporation. And I'm here to represent Jamie Norwood and NP Land Development Incorporated, who are the current owners of the property on which or across which the easement is located. Um Jamie owns the North Lot 6302, and NP land development owns the south lot at 6216 Avenue K. Really, what we have is a drainage easement. It's a stormwater and drainage easement that that's located 10 feet on each side of that common lot line that we'd like to gain approval for the vacation of. We when the stormwater system was designed and approved by the city of Kearney and ultimately constructed. Uh we found in fact that we didn't need to have a storm story inlet there or any drainage facilities there to accommodate the drainage off of Avenue K. Therefore, it seems reasonable to vacate that easement uh in its entirety. And essentially, that's that's it in a nutshell. Um we just want to vacate the easement, gives them a little bit more unencumbered room across the lot to take advantage of and go from there.