A property owner wishing to subdivide a rural lot into two lots for construction of a single-family home will wait until October to be heard by Platte County Commissioners.
The rezoning request was on the agenda for the Tuesday, Sept. 6 commission administration session held at the Platte County Resource Center. Commissioner Joe Vanover said attorney Shane Bartee, who represents the applicant Janis Rowell, was unable to attend today. He requested the matter be tabled until Bartee and all three commissioners could attend the meeting. The matter is tentatively rescheduled for Monday, Oct. 3.
At issue is the rezoning of about 45 acres off Jantzen Road. Currently zoned as agricultural and single-family high density, Rowell has asked the county rezone the property as rural estates to allow subdivision of the property to allow construction of another home on the property.
Rowell has asked the property be divided into two lots, consisting of a roughly 30-acre lot and a 13 acre lot. The applicant’s existing home would sit on the larger lot and another home would be built on the smaller lot. It’s been a long process, as Rowell received a variance from the Board of Zoning Adjustment on 2021 and the rezoning is the second of a four-step process to build the second home on the property.
While Platte County Planning and Zoning Staff has recommended approval of the rezoning application, neighbors in the area are not in agreement.
In a letter to the Planning and Zoning Commission, Robert and Cathie Komacki asked the zoning commission to deny the application. The Komackis also protested another rezoning application from another neighbor on the same road.
“While we and Janis Rowell have amicably shared a fenceline for some 36 years and have always been good neighbors, we feel she is not looking at anything long term,” the letter states.
The Komackis feared that the subdivision of property would lead to development such as what they had seen in Johnson County, Kan. before they moved from that area to Platte County to escape urban sprawl.