February 10, 2025, Public Hearing: Rezoning – Sullivan – PL2025-008

The applicant is requesting to rezone 120 acres from A-1, Agricultural Preservation District, to A-3, Agricultural Preservation Density District. The property includes productive acreage, wooded acreage, and a farmstead in the relative center of the parcel. The rezoning will allow the family to separate the farmstead from the surrounding agricultural land. The County Subdivision Ordinance allows for existing farmsteads to be separated from agricultural land on parcels 40 acres or greater through an Administrative Subdivision. The farmstead parcel will have frontage on Kittson Boulevard. All of the buildings on the site will meet the required setbacks.

The property is located in Section 17 and extends into Section 8 of Belle Plaine Township. The rezoning to A-3 will allow for creation of a parcel less than 40 acres but also will leave the agricultural land zoned at a 1 home per 40-acre density required to remain eligible for agricultural tax benefit programs. Creating additional building sites in the future would be reviewed according to the allowed development density and would also require platting for lots less than 40 acres. 

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