Commission recommends rezoning while staff flags irrigation-well restrictions for future plat
The board recommended approval of RZ2607 (rezoning to Residential Estates) for a ~80-acre BJ Ventures property near Towanda while staff advised adding plat language or covenants to restrict irrigation wells; the recommendation passed 5–0 and will go to the County Commission on June 23.
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The Planning and Zoning Board voted to recommend approval of RZ2607, a rezoning request to change roughly 80± acres north of Southwest 40th Street on Southwest Santa Fe Lake Road from AG-40 to Residential Estates to allow a nine-lot preliminary plat. Staff told the board that Butler County’s current zoning and subdivision regulations do not expressly prohibit domestic or irrigation wells but that state guidance and neighboring-county practices can affect whether the county can or should restrict irrigation wells.
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