Lincoln County approves plat amendment to add five lots on George Brown Road

The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners approved a plat amendment (PA-59A) that adds five lots to an existing preliminary plat, increasing the subdivision from 19 to 24 lots on roughly 22.1 acres on George Brown Road in Howard's Creek Township.

Planning staff said the revision follows a change to the minimum lot size from one acre to three-quarters of an acre and that the proposed site plan did not alter road layout. The record includes the applicant's proposed findings of fact and a staff statement recommending approval. "From what I have reviewed on the site plan, nothing has changed as far as the road layout or anything of that nature," staff said.

Applicant John Wilson and designer David Ledford described rearranging lots to capture additional developable parcels and addressed prior stormwater concerns. Ledford said the lots’ impervious-area calculations result in roughly 9% overall impervious coverage for the site, well below the watershed maximum cited in the staff report. "With the style house that John builds ... you're looking at about 3,500–4,000 square foot impervious area per lot," Ledford said, and staff said even with additional lots the proposal meets the 36% watershed maximum for the tract.

The board accepted the applicant's proposed findings of fact and voted to approve PA-59A based on those findings. The planning board had recused itself from the quasi-judicial item and staff confirmed that further engineering review would occur as the subdivision proceeds through technical review.

The county will require final engineering and a subdivision technical review committee assessment before any lots are recorded or developed.