HomeMy WebLinkAboutS-0432 Staff AnalysisJune 14, 1983
SUBDIVISIONS
Item No. 11
NAME:
LOCATION:
DEVELOPER:
W.C. Littleton
11411 Kerry Lane
Mabelvale, AR 72103
Phone: 565-7375
AREA: 5.11 acres
ZONING: "R-2"
W.C. Littleton Preliminary
660' North of the intersection
of Yarberry and Kerry Lane
ENGINEER:
Finley Williams
210 South Victory
Little Rock, AR
Phone: 376-3505
NO. OF LOTS: 2 FT. OF NEW ST.: 0
PROPOSED USES: Single Family
VARIANCES REQUESTED:
1. Waiver of improvements on Kerry Lane.
2. Lot depth.
A. HISTORY OF THE SITE
This site was recently brought into the City as an
"R-2" parcel. The annexation date was July 1979.
B. EXISTING CONDITIONS
The area involved is rural in character, with single
family homes and pasture land being the most
predominant uses. The land is flat with scattered
trees and there is an existing one story brick
residence on the site. Access to the site is by
Kerry Lane, a 24' wide asphalt street. A portion of
the property on the east is in the floodplain.
C. DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL
The applicant is requesting that he be allowed to
subdivide this tract of five acres into parcels, one
with 2.95 acres, which will include the existing house
and the other with 2.16 acres. The request is based
upon the applicant's pending retirement and a recent
formation of a water and sewer improvement district
with high tax assessment. The applicant plans to sell
the existing home to his daughter and family and
construct a new home with approximately 1,500 square
feet on the other parcel.
June 14, 1983
SUBDIVISIONS
Item No. 11 - Continued
Two variances have been requested: (1) a waiver of
improvements on Kerry Lane and (2) of excessive lot
depth on both lots. Justification for the first
includes the current dead-end (into the woods within
floodplain) conditions of Kerry Lane with no indication
for extension by the City's Master Street Plan. The
applicant is requesting that the second waiver be
granted since the back part of this tract is in the
floodplain and would not be used for any other use.
D. ENGINEERING CONSIDERATIONS
1. Improve Kerry Lane to residential street
standards.
E. STAFF ANALYSIS
Staff is sympathetic toward the applicant's request and
is supportive of the proposal to subdivide and waive
the lot depth requirement, which requries that no lot
should be more than three times as deep as it is wide.
Engineering, however, has recommended that Kerry Lane
be improved not necessarily because of a dire need for
improvements to urban standards in this location, but
because of a precedent set by a previous Planning
Commission approval on Yarberry Lane. Thus, we are
reluctant to endorse a waiver of such improvements.
F. STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Approval of plat and first waiver.
SUBDIVISION COMMITTEE REVIEW:
The Committee decided to pass this to the Commission,
subject to the approval of the plat and both waivers.
PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION:
The applicant was present. There were no objectors. There
was some discussion on whether or not it was wise to depart
from the precedent established in the area relative to
street improvements. It was decided that this proposal
involved unique circumstances that warranted approval of the
waiver. These were mainly due to no City plans for use of
the street and the floodplain issue. A motion was made and
passed for approval of the plat and both waivers. The
motion passed by a vote of 8 ayes, 1 nay and 2 absent.