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Nixa council vacates unused North Cynthia Drive right-of-way
Summary
The Nixa City Council approved an ordinance to vacate an unmaintained right-of-way along North Cynthia Drive so adjacent property owners can absorb the land for potential expansion.
The Nixa City Council on June 24 voted 5-0 to approve council bill 2025-21, an ordinance vacating certain right-of-way associated with North Cynthia Drive.
City Planning and Development Director Scott Gabbi told the council staff received a request to vacate North Cynthia Drive, a platted road from 1973 that has not been maintained as a public street. "Staff received a request to vacate, North Cynthia Drive," Gabbi said, and added that following ordinance approval the city would record the ordinance and then record a plat distributing the former right-of-way among adjacent property owners.
The action is intended to give adjacent property owners additional room to build if they choose to expand. Gabbi said the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval and staff also recommended approval because the road "was never really maintained as a road and it's not upkept as a road currently either."
During the public hearing, resident Ron Sanders asked whether the city had built the road and whether vacating it would shift capital value; Gabbi replied the road was built as part of private development in the 1970s. Sanders raised a related concern about county road closures and private gate installations as context for his question, but council did not alter the ordinance in response.
Council member Sean Lucas moved approval; Kelly Morris seconded. A roll-call vote recorded unanimous support (yes votes recorded as Zarin Vess, Aaron Peterson, Darlene Graham, Sean Lucas and Kelly Morris). The ordinance will be recorded and a follow-up plat will distribute the former right-of-way to adjacent property owners, per the process Gabbi described.
The council did not identify funding or required off-site work associated with the vacation; no amendments were proposed. The matter moves forward as a recorded ordinance and subsequent platting process.
