Planning commission approves rezoning and development plan for 92‑lot Boulder Springs subdivision

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. — The Blue Springs Planning Commission on July 28 recommended the rezoning of about 35.6 acres to allow the Boulder Springs single‑family subdivision and approved a general development plan and preliminary plat for the project.

Chantelle Fry, a city planner, told commissioners the application seeks to rezone the property from county agricultural zoning to SF‑7, a single‑family residential district, and to approve a general development plan and preliminary plat for what the applicant proposes as a 92‑lot, detached single‑family neighborhood south of Southeast Sunnyside School Road and west of Southeast Adams Dairy Parkway. "Before you this evening is a request for a rezoning, a general development plan, a preliminary plat for Boulder Springs, which is a proposed single family development located South of Southeast Sunnyside School Road and West of Southeast Adams Dairy Parkway," Fry said.

The plan covers the northern portion of the larger parcel: the applicant clarified it is proposing development on roughly 34 acres within the 35.6‑acre parcel and is not developing the southern ~15 acres at this time. Dan Foster, representing the developer, said, "we are only, doing the north 34 acres of this parcel. ... we are not involved with anything on the southern 15 acres, that will be retained by the ownership and will remain as ag at this point until a future development plan is brought before you…