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Advisory board adds 'unencumbered' to 100-foot road-frontage recommendation, debates easements and lot-splitting rules
Summary
Scott CountyAdvisory Board voted to add the term "unencumbered" to a proposed change reducing minimum lot size and road frontage; members debated easement widths, how many parcels may split from a parent tract and how to handle buildability for rear parcels before forwarding recommendations to the county commissioners.
The Scott County Advisory Board voted 6-2 on Aug. 13 to add the word "unencumbered" to a proposed change that would reduce the minimum lot size to one acre and the minimum road frontage to 100 feet, and the board forwarded that recommendation to the county commissioners.
Board members said their discussion focused on clarifying how easements and minor subdivisions will interact with the new frontage standard and on avoiding a repeat of past situations where land was divided without legal public access.
The boardrecommended changing the ordinance language from a 2-acre minimum and 200-foot road frontage to a 1-acre minimum and 100-foot road frontage described explicitly as "unencumbered." The advisory board recorded a roll-call tally of six yes votes and two no votes; the board…
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