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02-04-2009, 08:31 AM
Yavapai County Horsemen:It's time to get involved

Monday, February 02, 2009

PRESCOTT - The Yavapai County Planning and Zoning Commission this week will consider two use permits involving horses and an application to change a 5-acre portion of a 10-acre parcel from a residential zoning to a commercial zoning.

The commission meets at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the supervisors hearing room, 1015 Fair St. in Prescott. The meeting is open to the public.

The commission deferred until April 22 its scheduled discussion and possible adoption of the Open Space and Sustainable Development Option ordinance draft. The sustainable planning committee, which is writing the draft ordinance, asked for the delay to discuss the draft during a joint session with the board of supervisors in March.

Clyde Kyle is asking the commission to allow seven horses on a two-acre parcel in the White Horse Ranch community along Highway 169 east of Dewey-Humboldt. County ordinances allow four horses per two acres of land.

Code enforcement officers previously cited Kyle for having excess horses on his property. Kyle removed three horses and came in compliance with the ordinance. Kyle applied for a use permit to return the three horses to his property legally.

Marilyn Warren of Antelope Lakes Unit 4 subdivision near Paulden is asking the commission for a use permit to allow two horses and one stall on her 1.06-acre parcel in excess of county ordinances. Warren's lot size, which is less than 70,000-square feet, does not allow housing horses in her subdivision district.

Larry Olson owns a 10-acre parcel near Seligman with half of it zoned commercial and the other half zoned residential. Olson wants to change the residential zoning five acres to a commercial zone.

He built a gas station and restaurant on the commercial part of the property. The board of supervisors allowed him to build and operate a real estate office on the residential part of the property.

The use permit for the real estate office expired Feb. 8, 2008, and Olson wants to change the zoning to commercial so that he would not have to re-apply to operate a business on the residential portion of the property.

The commission's complete agenda is available at www.co.yavapai.az.us.