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Council approves rezoning and final plat for Bloom Addition at edge of extraterritorial area
Summary
The council unanimously rezoned a parcel at 230 Eighth and Old Mill Road from agricultural to rural residential in the city’s two-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction and approved the Bloom Addition preliminary and final plat after planning commission recommendation.
The Seward City Council voted 7-0 to rezone an approximately 80-acre parcel near 230 Eighth and Old Mill Road from AG (agricultural) to RR (rural residential) and to approve the preliminary and final plat titled Bloom Addition.
Tim, planning staff, told the council the parcel lies at the extreme edge of the city’s two-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction; because the city touches the quarter section, it has review authority. Staff said county regulations allow four residential acreages in a quarter section if lot-size standards are met and that the city’s rural residential zoning aligns with the county’s transitional agricultural zoning. The planning commission recommended both actions 7-0.
Tim noted the county controls driveway locations and that county review found no issues with driveways off 238; staff expressed concern about driveway access for the two southern lots on Old Mill Road because of a recent major accident at that intersection, but said the county will regulate driveway location. He also said the Bloom Addition lots meet minimum rural-residential sizes and that a nearby groundwater conservation area is more than a mile to the east and does not affect the plat.
Actions: the council introduced and then finally adopted Ordinance No. 2025-16 to amend the zoning map (rezoning), and Ordinance No. 2025-17 approving the Bloom Addition plat; both were passed by a 7-0 vote.
Why it matters: the rezoning and plat enable up to four rural residential acreages on the parcel under county and city standards; planning staff described the change as consistent with low-density land uses and with the city’s long-range service plans.
