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Elbert County homeowners propose carving 10‑acre lot for son; staff outlines rezoning steps and timeline
Summary
Property owners Diane and family Gross said they want to subdivide 40 acres to create a 10‑acre lot for their son; county staff explained options (Ag Residential 10‑acre minimum, A2 20‑acre minimum), the minor‑plat and rezoning application steps, and estimated a 3–6 month timeline to planning commission review.
Diane Gross, one of the property owners, said the family owns about 40 acres and wants to “slice off 10” so her son and daughter‑in‑law can build a home. County staff described the application and review steps and the zoning options available for that split.
Danny Klebanner, a county staff member who led the meeting, told attendees that an Ag Residential (AR) rezone allows a 10‑acre minimum lot size, while Agriculture 2 (A2) keeps a 20‑acre minimum. “With a 10 acre rezone, Ag Residential allows for 10 acre minimum lot size,” Klebanner said, adding that the applicants could rezone only the 10 acres to AR and leave the remaining 30 acres in A2, or rezone the whole 40 acres to AR depending on what they want to accomplish.
Klebanner explained that the minor plat process — which would accompany the rezoning application in this case — can create up to four lots; the Grosses are seeking only one additional lot, so the likely configuration would result in two lots on the property. He cautioned that achieving much smaller lot sizes (for example, one‑acre R1 lots) would require a different, more involved rezoning and platting process, including preliminary and final plats and major improvements such as private roads.
On procedure, Klebanner summarized the usual sequence: a pre‑application meeting (this session), submission of a formal application (rezoning plus minor plat), a publicly noticed planning commission hearing required for rezoning, and then the Board of County Commissioners as the final decision maker after the planning commission forwards a recommendation. He estimated it would take “maybe 3 to 6 months” to reach a planning commission hearing after the application is submitted, with the county commission meeting occurring a few weeks later.
A neighboring resident raised a question about a nonexclusive easement that crosses a corner of the proposed new lot. Klebanner said the easement would be shown on the new plat and would remain in effect, and that access would typically be preserved unless a lot were landlocked. On tax implications, he noted that tax classification depends on how the land is used and on assessor determinations rather than zoning alone.
Next steps for the applicants are to decide whether they want only the single additional lot (in which case Klebanner recommended rezoning 10 acres to AR and leaving 30 acres in A2) and to submit the rezoning and minor‑plat applications. Klebanner said, as an example, a case submitted at the time of the meeting might be scheduled for a planning commission hearing in October or November.
The meeting closed after roughly one hour; no formal vote or decision was taken at the session.
