Planning commission approves McCaslin Subdivision rezonings and plats amid stormwater and access concerns

The Kearney City Planning Commission voted to approve two rezonings and both the preliminary and final plats for the proposed McCaslin Subdivision, located north of the corporate limits along Second Avenue. The commission approved rezoning number 2025-08 (AG to CO), rezoning number 2025-09 (AG to C2), and preliminary and final plat number 2025-06.

Craig Bennett of Miller and Associates presented the application on behalf of property owner Keith McCaslin. Bennett described a site that includes an area of prior borrow and fill work, portions of mapped FEMA floodplain and a floodway, and a detention cell (borrow pit) that the applicant has modified to lift some eastern lots out of the floodplain. He said the development would be served initially by private wells and septic and that sanitary sewer service is roughly a half-mile from the site. "The closest sanitary sewer is a 30-inch trunk main; it's about a half…