The Madison County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved two subdivision plats and voted to hire a planning firm to rewrite county ordinances to align with a recently completed comprehensive plan.

In a public hearing, county staff described Hogback Ridge Acres Plat 2 as a two‑lot subdivision covering 35.26 acres owned by MBB Properties LLC. The planner said about one acre falls in the FEMA 1% annual floodplain and a similar area is marked on the plat as “no disturbance,” a restriction intended to protect environmentally sensitive timbered and limestone ledge areas. County staff told supervisors that building permits would not be issued within that protected area and that cutting or major disturbance would violate county requirements.

Terry Cody, representing the applicant, explained the filing was a reconfiguration of existing tax parcels to provide a homestead for each parcel rather than creating new tax parcels. The board voted in favor of approving the Hogback Ridge plat after conservation staff noted habitat concerns and the planner confirmed the no‑disturbance line on the recording.

The board also approved Prairie View Subdivision, a two‑lot split of a 31.62‑acre parcel. Staff said the property contains a house and outbuilding, the remainder appears enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program and the plat lies within two miles of the city of Saint Charles, prompting an extraterritorial review and a supportive resolution from that city.

Separately, supervisors awarded a contract to Marvin Planning Consultants for $21,000 to oversee a countywide ordinance update. Board members discussed whether the county attorney could do legal review more cheaply, and several supervisors said they wanted third‑party legal oversight in addition to the consultant’s work. The goal expressed by supervisors was to complete the work in about a year, though the ordinance‑amendment process can legally take longer.

The board closed the meeting by scheduling a supervisors‑only budget work session. Several agenda items were deferred to a subsequent meeting.