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Board approves conditional use permit and 50‑foot road‑frontage variance for Carey family manufactured home with conditions
Summary
The Oldham County Board approved a conditional use permit and a 50‑foot road‑frontage variance (resulting in 0 feet of frontage for the new 1‑acre lot) for a manufactured home at 1508 West Highway 42, subject to a minor plat, recorded shared road‑maintenance agreement and compliance with manufactured‑home regulations and building permits.
The Oldham County Board of Adjustments and Appeals on May 15 approved a conditional use permit and a road‑frontage variance that will allow a manufactured home to be sited on a new one‑acre lot carved from a larger 76.047‑acre tract at 1508 West Highway 42 in LaGrange.
Planning staff member John Hein explained the property is zoned AG‑1 and CO‑1 (agricultural and conservation) and that county regulations require 50 feet of road frontage for lots 2.5 acres and under in those districts. The applicant’s proposed lot would have 0 feet of frontage, so the board considered a 50‑foot variance request together with the conditional use permit required for a manufactured home outside a manufactured‑home district.
Valerie Shannon, attorney/advocate for the applicants (the Richard and Paulette Carey Living Trust), told the board the family’s intent is to site a manufactured home near the Carey residence so a daughter can help care for the owners as they age. Shannon said the placement was chosen to preserve agricultural fields and a line of trees that screens the property from Highway 42; she also said a proposed septic plan has been approved and that a maintenance agreement would be filed with the minor plat.
Staff presented site history showing a 40‑foot deeded access easement serving a parcel (1512 West Highway 42) and noted two other back parcels (11L and 11N) have relied on permission rather than deeded access; those parcels were sold off in the 1990s and early 2000s, staff said. County staff and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet advised that any additional lots served by the existing access easement will require either a new access or a waiver: county rules allow only three parcels to be served from a single access easement without a waiver.
The board approved both the conditional use permit (docket OC 20 5 0 17) and the road‑frontage variance. Conditions attached to approval include limiting the permit to the plan considered at the May 15 hearing, compliance with Oldham County zoning section 260‑280 regarding manufactured homes, submission of a minor plat and survey for staff review and approval prior to issuance, and recording a shared road‑maintenance and access agreement with the minor plat. The road‑frontage variance similarly was conditioned to apply only to the plan before the board and to require minor‑plat approval and a recorded access/maintenance agreement.
The transcript indicates staff received no phone calls or written objections related to the application at the time of the hearing. Docket: OC 20 5 0 17.
