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Board approves CSM to shift 0.15 acres between Genesee Road parcels, conditioned on cleanup of accessory buildings
Summary
The Planning Commission and Village Board recommended and approved a certified survey map moving 0.15 acres between two Genesee Road parcels, but required property owners to remove or legalize accessory buildings and bring structures into compliance before the CSM is signed and recorded.
The Planning Commission and Village Board voted Sept. 11 to approve a certified survey map (CSM) that moves roughly 0.15 acres from a 6.15-acre lot to an adjacent 1-acre lot on Genesee Road, conditional on the owners addressing accessory-building and maintenance issues on the larger lot before the map is signed and recorded.
Planning staff explained that the 0.15-acre “pie-shaped” adjustment would square up lot lines and that the CSM otherwise meets ordinance requirements. However, staff said that a prior CSM approval from several years ago was never recorded and that the larger property has had more accessory buildings than the ordinance allows. At the prior review, the village granted a waiver to leave certain preexisting buildings — including one about 3,300 square feet and a silo — but subsequent noncompliance and removal of some structures has left the current status unclear.
Staff recommended approving the CSM now but making signature and recording contingent on the owners obtaining any necessary waiver or removing accessory buildings so the lot will comply with the village’s accessory-building limits and health/safety standards. "We could approve the CSM tonight, and then at some time in the future, the Bartons would come in for a waiver, and also clean up of the building. So it wouldn't be signed and recorded until everything was on the up and up," Planning staff said.
Property co-owner James Barton said the family — which inherited the farm — is in the process of tearing down several structures and expects to finish removing the buildings by the previously granted extension deadline of Nov. 10. "We're tearing down the buildings right now... We rented a 20-yard dumpster and we were working on that over this summer," Barton said, adding work slowed because of rain.
Staff noted the village’s CSM-recording rule that a CSM must be offered for recording within 12 months after the date of last approval (and within 36 months after the first approval). The Planning Commission’s motion to recommend approval included staff and engineer technical comments as contingencies; the Village Board adopted the Planning Commission’s recommendation. Both bodies approved the conditional CSM unanimously.
Planning staff also told the Bartons that if a future waiver were required to retain buildings, the village would need to notify nearby property owners (within 300 feet) as part of that separate process.
