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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5.0 Meeting MinutesCONSIDER AN EXEMPTION FROM THE DEFINITION OF SUBDIVISION TO CREATE A TOTAL OF 2 PARCELS ON COUNTY ROAD 151 IN SWEETWATER. APPLICANT: MARY JO JACOBS AND CHARLES VAN DEVANDER - DAVID PESNICHAK Applicant: Kelly Cave — David summarized most of it and I haven't been up there personally and brought Ms. Hood here, she lives up there now and we actually have several people in the audience who live up there. Antoher issue, David mentioned everything that we had in our testimony or what we submitted but the topography is another issue — it's flat on the north side and steeper on the south side and you can tell from the trees that there's a difference in vegetation. Patti Jackson -Hood— I lived on 151 for 2 years and moved about 5 months ago and during that 2 year period I have watched the increase in traffic specifically because of several issues — Windance Ranch has been subdivided and will be selling off, you may be aware of Windance — a fairly large parcel of land that has been subdivision that creates a lot of lookers for property in the area. Sweetwater Resort has been sold to some very large developers who will begin that process and I know there's a lot of things on the table with what they're going to do. Additionally 7W Ranch has finished a large lodge renovation to accommodate large weddings, family reunions, things of that nature. I walk that road and did so for 2 years and you can see the wear and tear of the additional traffic. I've noticed that because I live at the very bottom of the road, walk up to the 2 mile mark which is just above where this particular piece of property sets. It is certainly used a lot and we did trash clean up Saturday. Jerry Simrod — I live at the very end of Sweetwater Road the Lake resort so I'm not on this particular road, however I have had quite a bit of experience on this road. Chairman Martin — you're talking 151 road and live you on 150. Jerry - when Patti Jackson and Alan Hood lived at the bottom of that road, we spent a lot of time socializing, sitting out on the front patio and have seen with our own eyes a great deal of traffic going back and forth, we've seen snowmobile traffic in the wintertime and we've also seen a great deal of kids sledding on that road in the wintertime. It is a very favorite place for a lot of the kids and the adults in the Sweetwater community to go up there pass where their property is and sled all the way back down to close to the junction of Sweetwater Road which is CR 150. As a neighbor and a member of the Sweetwater community we're totally in support of this resolution. Susan Simrod — Jerry's wife, we live at the end of Sweetwater road, I want to say in additional to it our property is divided with the County Road going right through it and it does impact what we do on a daily basis cause there's horse back riders and ATV riders and everybody else that's constantly going through our property and it does have a big impact so I think with the road splitting it and having the property split is a good thing by the CR 151 — big impact. Property split is Hope Kapsner - our property actually borders the property that they want to subdivide. I woundn't want my kids to walk alone on that road — that's for sure. Chairman Martin — we shouldn't have improved it that much then. Hope — I'm against all improvement of roads on Sweetwater for that reason. There's not only the 7W but there's also a fair amount of second homeowners up there and it gets a lot of traffic even in the wintertime I'm surprised when we sled we meet people at the bottom stopping cars. If it's a question of how much traffic that road gets, it's a lot. I just want to say we're all for this and we usually aren't all for this kind of stuff but you have two peole here who want to be part of our community who have been part of our community who have this opportunity to buy a piece of property and live there and be involved in it and that's a really special and wonderful thing and I think we need to make that happen. That is very important. Kelly Cave — the only issue to bring up is the well sharing, David and I went around on this one and right now we have one well permit on the property and we do have a proposed well sharing agreement and the reason we're going to go with that path is so they can have a little bit of irrigation water on each of the properties but we'd like to leave it open and not require it that they have to do that avenue, the other avenue would be to apply for their own well on their own property — the proposed future owners so we'd like it to be an either or situation. Right now we're going down the road of well sharing agreement but at some time in the future they future owner of the north lot may want to do their own well and in that instance we wouldn't need a well sharing agreement. Commissioner McCown — Kelly, do you see reason if you move forward with the well sharing agreement and later another well was drilled that it would impede that well sharing agreement at all — it would just go away wouldn't it. Kelly — they could agree not to do it, I just want to leave the option open for the future owner to go and do that and not have any impediments. I think they could get rid of it. Chairman Martin — and the cost of boring underneath that roadway. Kelly — that's the other issue absolutely. Chairman Martin — I don't think we're going to let you cut a big trench across there. Kelly — I talked to Road and Bridge and we could go through that process but it is an option. Carolyn — I think a well sharing declaration would go away if it wasn't needed but it's also possible to write in a paragraph that says and if.... Then this agreement goes away and everybody's protected. A motion was made by Commissioner McCown and seconded by Commissioner Houpt to close the public hearing; In favor: Houpt — aye McCown — aye Martin — aye A motion was made by Commissioner McCown and seconded by Commissioner to approve the exemption from a subdivision by granting the two parcels because of the road splitting the property with the 5 conditions shown by staff leaving in the one about the well sharing agreement and noting in the record the applicant's attorney statement should a second well be drilled there would not be a need for the well sharing agreement. In favor: Houpt — aye McCown — aye Martin - aye