Madison County planning panel weighs tying R‑3 rezoning to public water and sewer availability
Planning staff presented three options for language linking residential rezoning to public water and sewer: adopt R‑4 language requiring utilities, retain current R‑3 language requiring planned or available utilities, or remove the sentence allowing rezoning without programmed utility expansion. Commissioners agreed to a deeper workshop and scheduled public notice for an April hearing.
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Alan Nichols, the planning and zoning administrator for Madison County, asked the Planning Commission to decide whether to tighten the county's rezoning language so that an R‑3 rezoning would only be allowed where public water and sewer are available or programmed for extension. "If I go through the expense of getting water to the property and then you don't rezone it, it's a waste of infrastructure and money," Nichols said, urging the body to consider how the rule should read.
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