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Buffalo County preliminarily approves Eagle Hill Estates and Amity Hills subdivisions
Summary
The Buffalo County Board of Commissioners approved preliminary plats for Eagle Hill Estates and Amity Hills on Aug. 13, 2024; Amity Hills carries a history of prior denial and multiple zoning relaxations granted by the Board of Adjustment. Both approvals are preliminary and are not final plats.
Vice Chairperson Sherry L. Morrow presided over a public hearing Aug. 13 in which the Buffalo County Board of Commissioners approved preliminary plats for two subdivisions.
The board approved the preliminary plat for "Eagle Hill Estates" after Deputy County Attorney Andrew Hoffmeister presented the application and Registered Land Surveyor Trenton Snow and Brent Carmody answered questions. The Board adopted Resolution 2024-34 on a roll-call vote with six members voting "Aye"; Commissioner Ivan Klein was absent. The resolution states the approval is preliminary and not an approval of a final plat.
The Board also approved the preliminary plat for "Amity Hills Subdivision," presented by Craig Bennett of Miller & Associates on behalf of Benjamin and Christie Hirschfeld and Harry W. and Correne E. Whitley. The transcript records that the Zoning Administrator previously denied the application; the Board of Adjustment later granted multiple relaxations to zoning and subdivision standards (including requirements about road access, minimum street widths, cul-de-sac length and lot frontage) before the Planning & Zoning Commission issued a favorable recommendation on July 18, 2024. The Board adopted Resolution 2024-35, again by a six-to-none roll-call vote with Klein absent, and noted that this approval is not a final plat and that further steps remain before the subdivision may be recorded.
The approvals authorize the county zoning office and applicants to proceed toward final plat requirements, including compliance with drainage and grading plans noted in the resolutions. Neither resolution approves final plats or authorizes filing of a final plat in the Register of Deeds.
What happens next: both subdivisions will need to complete any outstanding conditions listed in their respective preliminary approvals before the Board will consider a final plat. The County's zoning and survey records will contain the detailed requirements and the drainage study referenced in the Eagle Hill Estates resolution.
