September 9, 2024, Public Hearing: 2040 Comprehensive Plan Amendment – Spring Lake Township | Lydia Hamlet Area

The applicant, Spring Lake Town Board of Supervisors, is requesting an amendment to the Scott County 2040 Comprehensive Plan planned land use map to re-guide ten properties at the intersections of State Highway 13 and County Road 10/Langford Way in the unincorporated hamlet of Lydia in the western part of the township.

The Town Board is seeking to re-guide these properties from Transition Area (TR) to Rural Business Reserve (RBR) to allow parcel owners to develop rural industrial land uses. The ten properties encompass approximately 96 acres.

Lydia is identified as a “hamlet” in the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. Hamlets are generally small, but distinct areas of five to twenty-five modestly-sized lots surrounded by a rural landscape of open space preserved for agriculture, park land, or the conservation of environmental features. These hamlets were established prior to the current zoning standards and consist of a number of small residential lots with a couple buildings maintained for retail, taverns or local churches.  The hamlets are surrounded by large tracts of agricultural land, bluff land or woodland, creating well-defined boundaries and unique communities. In Scott County, hamlet lots are served by individual septic systems. The 2040 Plan introduced a new mixed use overlay zoning district for the County’s identified hamlets, allowing a mix of residential, public and commercial land uses to co-exist within the same zone district. Most of the properties proposed for this comp plan amendment are within this mixed-use overlay zoning district.

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