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Council approves rezoning and replat to enable single-family home at White Oak Estates Second Plat
Summary
Council passed an ordinance rezoning and replatting parcels near 70 Ninth Street and Cottonwood Street to permit a single-family residence, including a 6-foot privacy fence behind a landscape easement and landscaping commitments.
The Lenexa City Council approved an ordinance rezoning property known as White Oak Estates Second Plat to permit replatting and construction of a single-family residence near the northeast corner of 70 Ninth Street and Cottonwood Street.
Staff and the applicant said the rezoning and replat will correct a prior illegal lot split, consolidate parcels into three lots for development and standardize zoning across the new parcel to enable access and a legal lot configuration.
Stephanie Sullivan of Community Development said the application combines two parcels the applicant already owns with two adjacent parcels; when replatted the site will become three lots and the rezoning will change a small sliver from R-1 to RP-1 so the parcel does not have split zoning. Sullivan said staff and the planning commission recommended approval, and noted they checked to ensure setbacks and other code requirements on adjacent lots would not become nonconforming.
Applicant John Kripka told council the owner plans to build a approximately 4,100-square-foot home and to install a six-foot wood fence set at the edge of a 15-foot landscape buffer. Kripka said the landscaping will follow code standards — “3 shade trees and 1 deciduous tree every 100 feet… 10 shrubs per 100 feet” — and that the owner intends to plant trees and keep the north portion as a wooded backyard; he said the owner also plans a pool on the north side if the project “pencils out.”
Council members asked about the location and width of required landscaping and whether fences could be placed in landscape easements; staff said the landscape strip would be platted with the application and that fence placement would be reviewed under the fence code. A planning-commission public hearing included adjacent residents who asked about access they had historically used to reach a private pool; staff advised that those access concerns are civil matters between property owners.
Council Member Chelsea moved approval and Council Member Courtney seconded; the motion passed.
