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Planning staff review multiple rural rezoning requests for home sites and accessory dwellings
Summary
Several Madison County property owners requested rezoning of small parcels in rural conservation areas to allow split home sites or accessory dwelling units (ADUs) for family or caretakers; staff described consistency with the comprehensive plan and ADU requirements but no formal votes were recorded in the transcript.
Madison County planning staff presented a slate of rezoning and lot‑split requests from rural property owners seeking to create separate home sites or accessory dwelling units (ADUs) for family members and caretakers.
Applicants asked the planning board to rezone portions of multiple properties from A1 to A2/AR or from A2 to AR to allow separate home sites or to bring nonconforming parcels into conformity. Staff said the requests were generally consistent with the county's comprehensive plan and the rural conservation character area where the parcels are located.
Among the requests described at the meeting: Lyndon McClellan and Steven Harris asked to rezone 11.94 acres on Lynn Edwards Road to split into roughly 5.8‑ and 6.14‑acre tracts for separate home sites. John Sams III applied on behalf of his father to rezone 5.62 acres on Cliff Griffith Road to add an ADU for medical‑hardship care…
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