Use On Review

12-E-18-UR

Recommended for denial
by the Planning Commission

DENY the Use on Review request and proposed development plan for the reasons identified below.


See case notes below

Request

Property Info

Case Notes

What's next?

Applicant Request

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Property Information

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Location
1933 Cottington Ln

Northwest side of S. Northshore Dr., southwest side of Cottington Ln.

Commission District 4
Census Tract 57.12


Size
2 acres

Sector
Southwest County

Land Use Designation? LDR


Currently on the Property
Residence

Growth Plan
Planned Growth Area

Case Notes

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Staff Recommendation
DENY the Use on Review request and proposed development plan for the reasons identified below.
1. The letter from S&ME Inc. to Jim Snowden, Senior Director for the Knox County Department of Engineering and Public Works stated that it was their professional opinion that "this closed depression is related to sinkhole activity". It is also the opinion of S&ME Inc. that "development of the site not only places risk on the subject property but also has the potential to increase risk to the properties immediately adjacent if storm water is not properly managed".
2. It has been the practice of Planning staff to require all closed contours to be identified as sinkholes on a final plat and to not allow any building construction within the identified sinkhole. The northern portion of Lot 25 includes an area that was designated as a sinkhole on the recorded plat for the Cottington Court Subdivision.
3. The Subdivision Regulations under Section 3.02.A.1.c includes a lot standard that "Lots shall contain adequate building sites outside of required riparian buffer zones and sinkholes and shall meet the required minimum building setbacks." The applicant has not provide clear documentation that this provision is met for the additional lots. It is staff's position that the three proposed new lots will not have adequate building sites outside of the sinkhole (includes a 5 foot easement outside of the closed contour) and required building setbacks.
Disposition Summary
DENY the Use on Review request and proposed development plan for the reasons identified below.

What's next?

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As a Use On Review case, the Planning Commission's decision is final, and it will not be heard by a legislative body unless it is appealed.

The appeal deadline - April 13, 2019 - has passed.

The Process
Applicant

Michael Brady Inc.


Case History