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Council approves rezoning, private sewer easement for 11.49-acre Heartland Meadows site
Summary
The Liberty City Council unanimously rezoned 11.49 acres north of Hartland Drive to light industrial and approved stipulations requiring a private pressure sewer system, a recorded private sewer easement and a conservation easement for riparian buffers.
The Liberty City Council on May 19 unanimously approved rezoning 11.49 acres northwest of Hartland Drive and south of U.S. 69 from R-1A suburban residential to M-1 light industrial to allow a roughly 102,000-square-foot industrial building on the site.
The rezoning application includes a variance from the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to permit sanitary sewer service via a private easement across adjacent property rather than a direct tie to a public main. A staff presenter said the applicant will build the structure on the east side of a stream crossing the property and place a conservation easement on the west side to protect streamside riparian buffers.
Why it matters: rezoning opens the site to industrial development while the council attached conditions intended to secure long-term maintenance and environmental protections.
City staff recommended approval with stipulations that, if the variance is granted, the developer must install a private pressure sewer system discharging to a public sanitary sewer through the neighboring property; execute and record a private sewer easement and maintenance agreement with the Clay County Recorder of Deeds; and include a note on preliminary plats that the property is served by a private pressure sewer system and is subject to recorded easement terms. The staff presenter told the council, “we do request that if this variance is approved, that the stipulations also be included.”
Council members waived the usual rules to consider the ordinance on first reading and then voted to adopt it with the staff-provided stipulations. The motion to approve included the stipulations; the ordinance passed unanimously and was signed by the mayor.
Discussion vs. decision: council discussion focused on whether stipulations should be spelled out in the ordinance or included in the motion and signed ordinance; the council chose to include the staff stipulations as part of the approval. No public speakers addressed the item during the hearing.
The project also will establish stormwater maintenance areas and will limit building construction to the east side of the on-site stream because riparian buffering requirements apply to the stream that runs through the parcel. The council approved a related preliminary plat for Heartland Meadows Fifteenth Plat later in the meeting.
