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Resident calls out repeated 'blunders' in rezoning of small agricultural parcels in Lee's Summit
Summary
At the Sept. 25 Planning Commission meeting, resident Teresa Bolingweider warned the commission that recent rezoning actions appear to rely on incorrect parcel histories, citing a 2010 division that she said makes a property ineligible for agricultural (10-acre minimum) status and thus prompted a rezoning to residential.
Teresa Bolingweider, a Lee's Summit resident, told the Planning Commission on Sept. 25 that she is seeing repeated mistakes in rezoning cases where small parcels are treated as if they retain agricultural status when they do not.
Bolingweider said she spent about five minutes searching deeds and found that a contested parcel had been divided in 2010, after the city's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) went into effect, and therefore did not qualify to remain in the agricultural zone. “This is happening both directions. These are blunders,” she said.
Planning staff answered during public comment that the agricultural zone has a 10-acre minimum…
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