Elkhorn tabled

Drainage concerns discussed

Plans for Elkhorn Ridge subdivision were put on hold by Planning Commission members but will be considered in a technical review committee meeting and then in a special Planning Commission meeting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13.

Property owner Franklin Miller told city officials the subdivision "started as PUD seven to eight years ago, folded and is now doing a good job of growing elm trees." He said it's zoned agricultural and he wants it residential.

Pea Ridge Planning Commission

Board of Adjustments

Special Meeting

Aug. 13, 2015

1:30 p.m.

• Open Meeting

• Approve Minutes from Aug. 3, 2015 Regular Meeting

• Review of Drainage Revisions for Elkhorn Subdivision (Franklin Miller)

• Preliminary Plat Phase 1 Elkhorn Subdivision (Franklin Miller)

• Close Meeting

"If we have our way, we'll do a really nice subdivision there with all the amenities," Miller said.

City building official Tony Townsend told planners the lot lines shifted because the Razorback pipeline runs across that piece of property.

Planner M.J. Hensley, a retired engineer, told Geoffrey Bates that drop inlets are to be spaced from 250 to 300 feet apart and some on the design for Elkhorn Subdivision are as far as 400 feet apart.

"The run off from this will be less than now; that pond is overdesigned. There were more lots, it should be even better than originally designed," Bates told planners.

Dr. Karen Sherman said the drainage for Elkhorn had been discussed by planners at a tech review meeting and all recommendations were to have been passed on to the property owner and engineer.

"When ultimate development takes place, with all the impervious surfaces added, there will be more runoff ... you really need more drop inlets," Hensley said. "You really want the water underground as soon as possible... in the consideration of ultimate development, if we take the roofs, the driveways, there will be more water."

"My concern," Jerry Burton, planner, said, "is that we don't see any drawings."

"When I originally designed it," Bates said, "it met all the spreads... I've done this for 25 years."

"The detention pond in Maple Glen doesn't work properly," Zach Hoyt, chairman, said.

"I designed that 10 years ago," Bates said. "If it's working now, it will work then."

City building official Tony Townsend said: "We don't know at what point it will be before we overwhelm Maple Glen." Water from several areas ends up in the detention pond in Maple Glen.

"I'm personally not in favor of it until I see it in black and white," Burton said.

Ultimately, planners agreed to have a special tech review meeting followed immediately by a special Planning Commission meeting to review the large scale development plan for Elkhorn Subdivision. The meeting was set for 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13.

In other business, planners:

• Approved rezoning 77 acres Elkhorn Subdivision from A-1 to R1A.

• Approved a home occupation request for 658 Hazelton by Todd Lobe, handyman. Lobe told planers: "I help people out, mostly in my church ... any of the ladies, lot of people passed away, their husbands, so I help them out, whatever they need done... just handyman all the way around," Lobe said.

• Approved a lot split for Lee Town Crossing for Community First Bank. Realtor Mike Adams with Lindsey and Associates said the lot is just north of the bank.

General News on 08/12/2015