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Buffalo County board refers five proposed zoning and subdivision amendments to Planning and Zoning Commission
Summary
The board unanimously referred five proposed amendments — including two options about whether Planning & Zoning recommendations are binding and a proposed distancing rule for large livestock facilities — to the Planning & Zoning Commission for public hearing and a report by Jan. 17, 2025.
BUFFALO COUNTY, Neb. — The Buffalo County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 26 referred five proposed amendments to the county’s Zoning Resolution and Subdivision Resolution to the Planning and Zoning Commission for public hearing and recommendation.
Zoning Administrator Dennise Daniels presented the proposed changes and Commissioner Daniel Lynch moved, with Commissioner Ronald Loeffelholz seconding, that the Board refer the material to the Planning and Zoning Commission for study, a public hearing and a written report back to the Board no later than Jan. 17, 2025. The motion passed on a unanimous roll-call vote.
The minutes describe the five items under review: two alternative approaches to the current rule that allows Planning and Zoning to issue a “binding recommendation” (one proposed amendment would allow the Board to override or modify a recommendation only by supermajority; the second option would make recommendations non-binding and permit the Board broad latitude to modify planning recommendations), a clarification to the Subdivision Resolution about how Subdivision Code amendments are initiated, and a proposed amendment addressing distancing provisions for large livestock facilities. The Board recorded that it considered the proposed amendments effective for any pending matters before the Board.
The Board also voted to cancel a previously scheduled public hearing on Dec. 10, 2024 regarding possible adoption of the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations, citing the referral process now underway. The Planning and Zoning Commission has until Jan. 17, 2025 to hold hearings, study the proposals and return a recommendation; if it cannot do so, the Board’s minutes state the Board will treat that as no recommendation being rendered.
The referral changes the process for how the County will handle recommended zoning code changes and could affect future decisions related to large livestock facility siting and subdivision code procedures. The Planning and Zoning Commission and the County Clerk have records of the full proposed amendment language.
