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County staff backs study agreement with Center Point on two-mile fringe area, to be moved to consent
Summary
Linn County staff described a $9,000 fringe-area agreement with the City of Center Point and East Central Iowa Council of Governments to coordinate zoning and subdivision review inside a two-mile area; supervisors agreed to place the item on the consent agenda for the next meeting.
Linn County staff presented a proposed fringe-area agreement with the City of Center Point and the East Central Iowa Council of Governments (EC COG) to coordinate land-use review within a two-mile area around the city.
The agreement would create a formal process for reviewing rezoning, subdivisions and conditional-use permits inside the two-mile fringe to help ensure development aligns with Center Point's planned growth path. Charlie Nichols, planning and development, said the total cost is $9,000 to be split 50-50 between Linn County and Center Point and that funds are available in the county budget. "Essentially, we want to make sure we are not approving developments that will be detrimental to the plan City growth path in the future," Nichols said.
Supervisors asked whether members of the public within the two-mile area had raised concerns. Nichols said he attended a Center Point City Council meeting where city officials were "very positive and excited to get started on this." One supervisor asked whether the item could be placed on the consent agenda; Nichols offered to move it from regular to consent. The board agreed, with no recorded opposition, to place the agreement on the consent agenda for the Wednesday meeting.
Because the board did not take a final substantive vote on the agreement itself at the January 27 meeting, there was no adoption of the agreement; the action taken was to move the item to the consent calendar for the next meeting. The county did not commit dollars beyond the cost-share described and no public comments about the proposed agreement were recorded during this discussion.
The fringe-area agreement will next appear on the board's consent agenda for consideration and formal action and may include a final vote at that time.
