Planning Commission work session reviews UDC amendments, rezoning for reservoir and multiple site plans; several items held for voting

The Spring Hill Planning Commission held a work session to review a package of land-use requests, proposed Unified Development Code (UDC) amendments and concept plans; commissioners made no final votes but flagged several items for additional information before a future voting meeting.

Staff asked the commission to amend the UDC to add a new “public facilities” use category to capture reservoirs, water-treatment and public safety facilities and to add a process to revoke inactive applications after 180 days. Development Services staff said the public-facilities category is intended to “allow for the construction and operation of these uses established primarily for the benefit, service, and protection of the population of the community.”

The commission also reviewed two rezoning requests the staff described as tied to municipal infrastructure: a roughly 157-acre property formerly called Stone Creek, purchased by the city for an advanced purification/reservoir project, and a roughly 47.4-acre Hurt Road parcel proposed to be rezoned from Agricultural (AG) to Institutional Campus (IC). Staff reported the IC district is intended for governmental and larger institutional uses and…