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Council approves first reading to enable single‑family plat at Oak Ridge Nursery property
Summary
The council approved on first reading a planned development proposal and platting path to allow an existing house and a proposed additional dwelling on the Oak Ridge Nursery property to be treated as separate residential lots, with temporary greenhouse structures to be removed as part of the replatting process.
The Brandon City Council on an unspecified date approved the first reading of a planned development and platting approach to allow a residential lot split at the Oak Ridge Nursery property on South Split Rock Boulevard (Ordinance 07:40). The change stems from the property’s current General Business zoning, which does not permit standalone single‑family detached dwellings.
City staff and the Coughlin family, who own the property, told council the existing house is nonconforming under the General Business zoning and the family seeks to create a separate lot for a new house so the son may live in the existing residence while the parents build a smaller home. Staff said the proposed plan development is intended to limit the zoning change to this property rather than broadly amending the General Business district.
Mike (Coughlin), speaking for the family, said they have lived at the Oak Ridge Nursery property for nearly 50 years and have sold the existing house to their son, who has already moved in. "We'd like to build kind of a smaller villa... that would be our future assisted living," he said, explaining the hoop houses currently on the property are temporary greenhouse structures that will be removed as part of the platting.
Staff noted that the hoop houses must be removed or otherwise addressed before final permitting for the new house can proceed. The council approved the first reading motion and asked for additional discussion before final votes; the record shows a motion and second and the chair called the vote, which carried.
The council did not adopt a final plat at the meeting; the action recorded was a first reading to allow the plat and zoning mechanism necessary for eventual lot division and building permits.
