Council tables variance request for sewer and parking at JS Hodges addition to July 24
The council (sitting as the zoning board of adjustment) heard the applicant's engineering presentation about gas easements and shallow sewer lines that restrict connection options, then unanimously voted to table the variance requests to July 24 to allow additional engineering review and coordination with city staff.
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The council, acting as the zoning board of adjustment, reopened a public hearing on a pair of variances for Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, J.S. Hodges 690 Addition and heard an engineering presentation from Colin Wilson of Topographic Company on behalf of the developer. Wilson said existing gas easements and a shallow sanitary sewer (about 2.5 feet deep at the nearest tie-in) make a sewer connection impractical at certain points and described the developer's proposed on-site sewage facility and an alternate asphalt surface for parking. "We just don't have access to the sanitary sewer systems in the city of Springtown," Wilson said, explaining the constraints.
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