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Council denies Joanne Drive variance and advances relatives exception with five‑year resale restriction
Summary
Council denied a variance request for a Joanne Drive lot split and discussed an ordinance amendment to allow family subdivisions with a resale restriction; the council amended the proposal from a 3‑year to a 5‑year resale restriction and advanced the amendment for further readings.
The council reviewed a variance application from a property owner on Joanne Drive that would have allowed a parcel below the 5‑acre minimum to be divided. After discussion about fairness to earlier applicants and the need for a consistent approach, the council moved to deny the variance and suggested the zoning overlay process would be a fairer, longer‑term solution.
City staff presented a proposed ordinance amendment (identified in the packet as amendment 2025‑11a) that would change the allowable degree of familial subdivision and add a restriction preventing subdivided lots under that exception from being transferred outside the defined familial class for a set period. The city attorney read the amendment language and the council adopted a modification on the floor to change the proposed 3‑year restriction to 5 years before forwarding the amendment for additional consideration.
"This proposed amendment would alter... a lot divided under subsection... cannot be transferred to another individual... for a period of 3 years," the city attorney read from the packet; council later modified that period to five years during the motion on the floor. The variance request for the Joanne Drive parcel was denied, and the ordinance amendment was advanced with the 5‑year modification for the next step in the process.
