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Staff flags groundwater, compatibility concerns as developer seeks buffer reduction, septic allowance in rezoning request
Summary
Staff told the Spring Hill Planning Commission that rezoning application RZN20352026 seeks to reduce an existing 150-foot undisturbed buffer to 50 feet while allowing 100 feet for wastewater infrastructure; staff said the change raises potential compatibility and effluent-dispersal risks and requested more justification before a voting meeting.
Planning staff presented rezoning application RZN20352026 at the April 27 work session, saying the applicant proposes to modify the zoning condition on an I-1 site by reducing a previously required 150-foot undisturbed landscape buffer along the western property line to a 50-foot undisturbed strip and permitting disturbance of the remaining 100 feet for on-site wastewater infrastructure.
“While most of the lot is industrial, the natural area strip was created to serve as a buffer between the abutting incompatible uses, residential and industrial,” staff said in the report and warned that introducing subsurface piping and wastewater…
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