Planners recommend rezoning about 100 Sunset Hill parcels from high-development residential to RES

At an April 10 Monroe County Board of Commissioners work session, county planning staff summarized REZ‑25‑1, a petition to rezone roughly 100 parcels in the Sunset Hill neighborhood from High Development Residential (HD) to Residential 1 (RES).

The change would affect about 64.44 acres in Section 6 of Perry Township and was described by planning staff as a correction to earlier mapping when those former fringe-city parcels were blanket rezoned to HD as part of the County Development Ordinance (CDO) the board adopted on Dec. 18, 2024. “This is REZDash25Dash1. And this is the Sunset Hill rezone, 100 parcels to be rezoned from high development residential to residential 1,” planning staff said during the work session.

Why it matters: planners and commissioners said the area includes established single‑family neighborhoods where most homes use septic systems, contains karst and sinkhole features, and overlaps a recently adopted historic preservation…