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Commissioner Van Scoy asked if the future streets would be platted so when sewer comes in we <br />already know where it will go. <br />Associate Planner Geisler indicated the land would need to be re -platted when sewer comes in <br />because for now the areas would be platted as outlots. <br />Commissioner Van Scoy asked about development fees. <br />Associate Planner Geisler stated they are actually adding costs for development because they are <br />requiring additional surveys, which add to the cost, and the additional fees for platting the <br />outlots. <br />Commissioner Van Scoy asked who is responsible for the homeowner's association costs. <br />Associate Planner Geisler advised the developer would create the association and be the first <br />member, with membership transferred as lots are sold. <br />Assistant Community Development Director Trudgeon indicated the City will want to see a high <br />level of control in these homeowner's associations. He stated they would want to see a well - <br />funded, well established association that could address any problems with the communal septic <br />system. He indicated the association would control all the land of the lots and the communal <br />septic system land. <br />Commissioner Van Scoy clarified these would be urban sized lots in a rural area, and developers <br />would not be allowed to create two and a half acre lots and put a house on them. <br />Assistant Community Development Director Trudgeon stated they have a lot of two and a half <br />acre lots out there now that someone could buy and put a house on, but no new lots that size can <br />be created. <br />Associate Planner Geisler indicated this will apply to simple lot splits also. She stated an owner <br />can still split a lot for a family member, but only up to three-quarters of an acre. <br />Commissioner Van Scoy stated he was thinking that they were looking more at the possibility of <br />someone buying two and a half acres, where you would have four houses in the middle, but each <br />would own their acreage. <br />Assistant Community Development Director Trudgeon indicated the problem they have is most <br />two and a half acre property owners do not want to split their land. <br />Vice Chair Johnson added the problem with two and a half acre splits is that it is difficult to get <br />all the owners to come together when utilities do come in, and it also creates a large assessment <br />because of the property size. He stated someone may want to sell some of their property off to <br />help pay the assessment but they cannot do that without the neighbors agreeing to split also. <br />Planning Commission/July 1, 2004 <br />Page 9 of 13 <br />