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Atchison County to allow address issuance after township agrees to extend maintenance on low-volume road
Summary
Commissioners agreed to allow an address to be issued for a parcel south of St. Pat's Cemetery if Mount Pleasant Township extends maintenance and required legal paperwork is completed; the county will amend its ordinance from 475 ft to 500 ft to implement the change.
Atchison County commissioners agreed May 12 to permit issuance of a postal address for a privately owned parcel south of St. Pat's Cemetery once the township completes a maintenance extension and required legal paperwork.
Roger Denton, who presented the GIS and roads update, said the applicant, identified in the record as Mr. Riley Lule, applied for an address but the property’s access is on a section the county classifies as minimum maintenance, also called a low-volume road. Denton told commissioners the county does not issue addresses on minimum-maintenance roads because emergency responders may have difficulty reaching new parcels.
“Mount Pleasant Township has agreed to extend maintenance 25 feet to the south, which will give him enough room to get his driveway into the property and then we could issue an address,” Denton said.
County staff said the county’s development-permit process—originally used to check floodplain impacts—now also serves to assign addresses and driveway entries. Denton said the commission previously adopted an ordinance governing minimum-maintenance roads and that implementing this address requires an amendment to change the maintenance threshold from 475 feet to 500 feet.
A commissioner moved to allow the address issuance “upon proper legal paperwork,” and a second was made; the minutes record the board’s agreement to proceed with staff drawing the necessary order and to return the ordinance amendment for formal consideration.
The commission asked staff to resend related documents to county counsel and to prepare a draft order and ordinance amendment for a future meeting. No final ordinance was adopted at the meeting; staff indicated the change will be completed through the normal legal process before an address is issued.
The next step is for county counsel and staff to prepare and present the ordinance amendment and for the township to complete the maintenance extension paperwork so the county can move forward.
