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Planning board reviews multiple rezoning and variance requests, debates easement and frontage rules
Summary
The board reviewed several rezoning and variance applications — including requests from Brooke and Samuel Francis, Darlene and Nolan Plattkin, Marcus and Deborah Veil, and Kyle Wood (for Beverly Blayman/Gleeman) — focusing discussion on easements, road frontage calculations and when a split triggers a major subdivision review.
Madison County’s Planning and Zoning Board reviewed a batch of rezoning and variance requests and spent substantial time clarifying how private-access easements and road frontage rules apply to proposed lot splits.
Staff presented multiple applications slated for the upcoming public period. Brooke and Samuel Francis requested a rezoning to allow a mortgage split on a portion of their 27.33‑acre parcel in Comer. Darlene and Nolan Plattkin sought a variance to allow a split that would leave one resulting lot with 128.52 feet of frontage where 150 feet is required; staff said an access easement would serve a landlocked tract. Marcus and Deborah Veil requested rezoning of 16.08 acres to create two tracts served by a 60-foot easement that narrows to 30 feet at the end. Kyle Wood…
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