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Green River council approves elimination of 40-foot common access road in Commercial Center PUD
Summary
The Green River City Council approved an amendment to the Green River Commercial Center planned unit development to remove a 40-foot common access road and utility easement, a change planners said could leave one lot landlocked unless an easement is later granted.
The Green River City Council on Thursday approved an amendment to the final plat of the Green River Commercial Center planned unit development that eliminates a 40-foot-wide common access road and accompanying utility easement.
The change was proposed by petitioner Russ Schmidt and presented to the council by Rob Fisher, Planning and Zoning Administrator. Fisher said the commercial center had been platted in 1982 to include a central access road and that the site “has not developed the way it was planned back in 1982.” He described the 40-foot easement as a center line with 20 feet on each side running through the lots in question.
The amendment will remove the common access road and utility easement from the final plat. “Development Community development believed that this amendment and the elimination of that road was a change in the user character of development, which means it has to go before planning and zoning and governing body,” Fisher said, summarizing the review criteria that triggered a governing-body decision. He noted Planning and Zoning voted on May 14 to recommend approval to the city.
Council members and staff discussed the practical effect on existing lots. Fisher said several lots in the PUD have been sold individually and that, if the elimination is approved, Lot 2 would be the only lot left landlocked. Lot 2 is owned by Green River Alliance Church, which also owns Lot 1; Fisher said it was “believed that they are wanting to expand into Lot 2” but added that “no dates or anything like that has been finalized.” Fisher explained that if Lot 2 were sold in the future, the later owner “would have to be granted easement through either Lot 1 or Lot 15.”
Fisher told the council that the petitioner, Russ Schmidt, had discussed the change in person with adjacent property owners and provided letters; “They all signed a document saying that they were okay with the elimination of that road,” Fisher said. Fisher also said the owner of the corner lot near Alliance Therapy was contacted and “did not have any issue with it as well.”
After hearing the presentation and questions, Councilman Kilpatrick moved to approve the resolution granting the amendment to the final plat for elimination of the 40-foot common access road at the southeast corner of Upland Way and West Teton; the motion was seconded and carried unanimously.
The approval removes the access road from the recorded plat but does not create a new vehicular access solution for Lot 2; Fisher described potential future remedies (easement through adjacent lots) but said no binding plan or dates were provided. The council record shows Planning and Zoning recommended the amendment and that adjacent owners had signed letters indicating no objection.
The council’s approval was a final plat amendment; no additional formal conditions or public-works commitments were recorded in the meeting minutes about providing alternate access or constructing new roads.
