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Planner recommends rezoning 24-acre Sut Creek Road parcel for tourist cottages and small farm store
Summary
County planner recommended approval of a rezoning request for roughly 24 acres at 2425–2501 Sut Creek Road to allow seven tourist cottages and a small farm store under conditions limiting retail area to 600 sq ft and maximum height to 35 feet; planning commission opposition cited traffic and septic concerns and the committee deferred final action.
County planning staff presented Case 2025180 and recommended that the Commission approve rezoning approximately 24 acres at 2425–2501 Sut Creek Road from A-1 agricultural and R-2A rural residential to C-2 local business commercial with four conditions.
Planner Brian Schultz, RPA, described the proposal as seven cottage rental units and one single-family dwelling with a small retail 'farm shop' for guests. Staff recommended limiting permitted uses to single-family dwellings, short-term vacation rentals, retail sales (with the retail area capped at 600 square feet), single-wide and double-wide manufactured homes, and farming/tourist court uses; staff also recommended a maximum building height of 35 feet and a cap of eight tourist courts.
Schultz told commissioners that the site is vacant, that adjacent parcels include existing C-2 zoning dating to the 1950s, and that staff found the request compatible with adjacent land uses subject to the four recommended conditions. He noted opposition at the planning-commission hearing centered on traffic, septic and access concerns. The applicant told the committee they hope the rezoning will be approved so they can proceed; Commissioner Baker, the district commissioner, said he had no problem with the recommendation. No committee vote was recorded in the transcript.
