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City staff proposes replat of Lawrence airport property into three lots to streamline development
Summary
City planning staff told the Aviation Advisory Board that a proposed subdivision will replat more than 500 acres of airport property into three lots, vacate unused paper streets and easements, and rely on an airport overlay (Article 7) and planning‑commission review to protect airspace and limit building heights.
Sandy Day, a land use planner with the city, told the Lawrence Aviation Advisory Board on June 4 that the city plans to replat airport property into three lots to reduce repeated replatting and make it easier to negotiate leases with future tenants.
The measure, presented as a preliminary plat, would dissolve interior lot lines and vacate unused public rights of way and easements that exist on older plats. “Because we have the mapping technology that we have today, the need for these lots is really less important than it was when we first started this process,” Day said.
The replat relies on an existing airport overlay included in the updated land development code (Article 7) that continues the city’s previous zoning protections for the airport. Day said the overlay sets out runway protection zones and airspace overlay components that, among other things, limit building height and create an airport zoning commission role for the planning…
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