The Campbell County Planning and Zoning Commission approved the proposal for a 10-lot subdivision in the county’s unincorporated area.
The area currently consists of a 190-acre farm on Haubner Road with a house and several farm buildings. DM KY Properties LLC’s proposal is to subdivide the 190 parcels into 10 lots, eight of which are building lots ranging in size from 11 to 41 acres. The two remaining divisions will be land additions to neighboring parcels.
“It’s still pretty rural out there, and it actually preserves the area because you’re not going to really be able to divide these lots off unless you pave the street up into them,” Campbell County Planning and Zoning Principal Planner Kirk Hunter said.
The 2008 comprehensive plan identified the site’s existing land use as large-lot residential and single-family residential. Although only eight homes will be built, according to Hunter, it is still considered a major subdivision because it exceeds five lots.
The original farm from which the proposed lots are being divided has only undergone a few divisions over the years, and therefore, Hunter said the area has remained relatively unchanged. According to the Campbell County Planning and Zoning staff report, the farm was 217 acres in 1969.
In addition to the planning and zoning commission’s approval for the lot divisions, they also determined that the applicant would not be required to make street improvements—a requirement of the county’s subdivision regulations.
The staff findings said that it is “not reasonable to require street improvements be provided based on the anticipated burden of the new development consistent of eight home sites on the existing street.”
It also said that “it is not reasonable for the developer to bear the street improvement costs based on the nature of the development.”
Should future development go into the area and bring in more traffic, Hunter said impact fees and things like traffic studies could be conducted then if need be.
“As you see more people move in, the developers have to pay these impact fees,” he said. “One of those things is paving roads. You know, they have to do that. But again, when those come across, we review them. If it’s something that requires a traffic study, we get an engineering company to look at it or ask the applicant to hire somebody to do a traffic analysis.”
Currently, there are no plans for where the houses will be.
“This isn’t necessarily development; it’s a subdivision, and they can sell individual lots, and anybody can come build,” Campbell County Planning and Zoning Commissioner Jeff Schuchter said.
