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Planning Commission recommends rezoning and 15-lot preliminary plat for Lydia Prime Central, flags floodplain fill and technical conditions
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended approval of rezoning ~79 acres to Rural Business Reserve and a 15-lot preliminary plat for Lydia Prime Central, with staff noting proposed floodplain fill (about 1,700 cubic yards) will require a conditional-use permit and multiple technical items must be resolved before county-board action.
The Scott County Planning Commission on June 8 recommended approval of rezoning roughly 79.05 acres in the hamlet of Lydia from Transition Reserve to Rural Business Reserve and approved forwarding a preliminary plat (Lydia Prime Central) proposing 15 lots to the county board, subject to conditions listed in staff reports and technical memos.
Marty Schmid, zoning administrator, reviewed the site's prior comprehensive-plan reguiding (approved January 2025), the proposed Titan Boulevard internal road with a required right-turn lane at County Road 10, and lot sizes ranging from 2.5 to 11.83 acres. He said the applicant submitted a FEMA letter of map amendment earlier in the year that reduced the mapped floodplain, but the plat still requires placement of stormwater facilities and Titan Boulevard construction that will place fill in the floodplain.
Schmid told commissioners the grading plan indicates approximately 1,700 cubic yards of fill will be added to the floodplain for the road and stormwater facilities. County floodplain rules require a conditional-use permit if more than 1,000 cubic yards of fill are added; the applicant proposes 2:1 replacement elsewhere as mitigation. Technical review memos from natural-resources, environmental services (septic/drainfield verification), county traffic (right-of-way dedication and street light), and the Soil & Water Conservation District (buffer averaging and developer agreement for conservation easements) identified items that must be addressed before final approval.
No members of the public spoke. A commissioner moved to recommend approval of the rezoning and preliminary plat, noting that the conditions in the staff report must be satisfied prior to county board consideration. The motion passed.
Next steps: staff expects the applicant to file a separate conditional-use permit for floodplain fill (to be considered at the July meeting), and the county will require final engineering, buffer averaging, conservation easement agreements and septic-site verification before county-board action.
