HomeMy WebLinkAboutDept Report 07-20-10 CARMEL PLAN COMMISSION
DEPARTMENT REPORT
JULY 20, 2010
2 -3. Docket No. 10050022 PP: Village of Mount Carmel, Section 11
The applicant seeks primary plat approval for 4 lots on 5 acres. The subdivision control ordinance waiver
requested is: Docket No. 10050023 SW from SCO Chapter 6.05.01 lot without road frontage
The site is located at 1235 W. 146 St. and is zoned S- 2/Residence. Filed by Keith Sarah March.
The applicant seeks primary plat approval for this minor subdivision of 4 residential lots on 5 acres. A minor
subdivision is considered to be any subdivision that either has less than 5 acres in area or fewer than 5 lots. Also,
minor subdivisions are exempt from the requirements of the open space ordinance, and do not have to provide a
certain percentage of open space as part of the plat; however, some tree preservation is required as it relates to
the perimeter buffer yard requirements. Please view the petitioner's information packet for further detail.
The waiver requested from the Subdivision Control Ordinance is for one lot to not have frontage on a street, but
to have access through another lot via an access easement instead. This will be a shared driveway, most likely.
And even though Lot 6 of the Village of Mount Carmel Section 10 is part of a separate platted subdivision, the
easement does not necessitate a replat of Lot 6. A granting of the waiver by the plan commission allowing the
easement for, access will not, in any way, diminish the enforceability of the covenants (if restrictive to the
issuance of an easement) for Section 10. DOCS is comfortable with the waiver request, subject to the recording
of the access easement across Lot 6. (The petitioner stated that the landowner is aware that the covenants and
restrictions of the subdivision must be followed in respect to the granting of the easement. Also, the petitioner
reviewed this issue and found no prohibition of the granting of the easement in the covenants and restrictions of
the existing subdivision.)
Staff's outstanding comments for the petitioner:
1. Please submit a filled out Findings of fact sheet the night of the meeting.
2. The Commission might ask you commit to the Draft Residential Architectural Design Guidelines, as part of the
approval of the waiver and the primary plat, and DOCS encourages this.
3. The Dept. of Engineering (DOE) has some drainage issues to work out with the petitioner and has no issues
with the access proposed, provided that the Hamilton County Highway Dept is okay with the continued use of
the existing curb cuts from 146th Street.
4. The Hamilton County Highway Dept. (HCHD) is still waiting for a response to their June 15 review letter,
with the main comment that a variance is required for the reduction of road R/W.
5. The Hamilton County Surveyor's Office has no issues with the primary plat, but the petitioner still has issues
to address before they get Final (Secondary) Plat approval.
6. The Forestry Dept will review a landscape plan/tree preservation plan with the Secondary Plat phase.
7. Please show /label the perimeter bufferyards, per ZO Chapter 26.04. (Existing trees /shrubs will count
toward these requirements.)
8. Provide' the filled out notice of public hearing page, the filled out, notarized affidavit of notice of public
hearing' page, and the filled out, notarized Public Notice Sign Placement affidavit page of the application,
as well as the Official List of Adjacent Property Owners from Hamilton County Auditor's Office.
The Dept of Community Services (DOCS) requests that the Plan Commission sends these items to the
Aug. 3 Subdivision Committee meeting for further review /discussion, and also grant that committee the
final voting authority. (A Findings of Fact sheet will need to be signed by the Chairperson.)
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