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02-11-2009, 12:44 PM
Thursday, February 05, 2009
The Yavapai County Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday voted a positive recommendation for a use permit for a Dewey-Humboldt horse owner and a negative recommendation for a use permit for a Paulden horse owner.
Commissioners agreed to defer voting on a proposed open space ordinance until April 22. The open space ordinance committee, which is writing the draft, meets March 25 in a joint session with the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors.
The commission voted against Marilyn Warren's use permit to allow two horses on her one-acre parcel in the Antelope Lakes subdivision near Paulden. Warren's lot size, which is less than 70,000-square feet, is not large enough to house horses under current zoning ordinances.
Warren said that she bought the property because her Realtor told her she could have horses there, and she could not afford to board the horses elsewhere. "I feel the ordinance is unfair," Warren told commissioners. "People all around me have horses, chickens, goats and burros."
Warren's neighboring lots are zoned for farm animals because of their larger sizes, Kristy Dargue, development services staff said. Nearly a dozen neighbors wrote letters of support for Warren, and one neighbor, Robert Robinson, spoke against a waiver for Warren.
He said that his house is 22.5 yards from Warren's fence and that her horses kick up dust that blows into his family's house. He said that when Warren is exercising the horses, the dust resembles "a layer of fog across the property."
The commission voted 8-1 to forward a negative recommendation to the board of supervisors. Commissioner Jon Barnert voted in favor of the application.
Commissioners said they did not want to recommend a use permit for Warren because it could raise expectations of getting waivers for other one-acre property owners that want to house horses on their property.
"I just don't know what I'm going to do now," Warren said after the meeting.
Commissioners were more sympathetic to Clyde Kyle's application to keep seven horses on his two-acre parcel in the White Horse Ranch community off Highway 169 near Dewey-Humboldt. County zoning ordinances allow only four horses per two acres.
Several of Kyle's neighbors attested to his character and community involvement.
Four board members of the White Horse Ranch homeowner's association (HOA) wrote a letter against Kyle. They wrote that Kyle is violating the White Horse Ranch Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs).
However, commissioners were unclear whether the letter represented only the four board members or the HOA membership.
No one from the public spoke in opposition of the application.
Kyle told the commission he did not know he was violating a county ordinance "until someone turned me in."
The commission voted to forward a positive recommendation based on the lack of opposition to Kyle. However, they are recommending a 10-year temporary use permit.
The commission also gave a positive recommendation to Larry Olson's application to change zoning from residential to commercial for five acres of a 10-acre parcel he owns near Seligman.
The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors hears the commission's recommendations March 2 in Prescott.
The Yavapai County Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday voted a positive recommendation for a use permit for a Dewey-Humboldt horse owner and a negative recommendation for a use permit for a Paulden horse owner.
Commissioners agreed to defer voting on a proposed open space ordinance until April 22. The open space ordinance committee, which is writing the draft, meets March 25 in a joint session with the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors.
The commission voted against Marilyn Warren's use permit to allow two horses on her one-acre parcel in the Antelope Lakes subdivision near Paulden. Warren's lot size, which is less than 70,000-square feet, is not large enough to house horses under current zoning ordinances.
Warren said that she bought the property because her Realtor told her she could have horses there, and she could not afford to board the horses elsewhere. "I feel the ordinance is unfair," Warren told commissioners. "People all around me have horses, chickens, goats and burros."
Warren's neighboring lots are zoned for farm animals because of their larger sizes, Kristy Dargue, development services staff said. Nearly a dozen neighbors wrote letters of support for Warren, and one neighbor, Robert Robinson, spoke against a waiver for Warren.
He said that his house is 22.5 yards from Warren's fence and that her horses kick up dust that blows into his family's house. He said that when Warren is exercising the horses, the dust resembles "a layer of fog across the property."
The commission voted 8-1 to forward a negative recommendation to the board of supervisors. Commissioner Jon Barnert voted in favor of the application.
Commissioners said they did not want to recommend a use permit for Warren because it could raise expectations of getting waivers for other one-acre property owners that want to house horses on their property.
"I just don't know what I'm going to do now," Warren said after the meeting.
Commissioners were more sympathetic to Clyde Kyle's application to keep seven horses on his two-acre parcel in the White Horse Ranch community off Highway 169 near Dewey-Humboldt. County zoning ordinances allow only four horses per two acres.
Several of Kyle's neighbors attested to his character and community involvement.
Four board members of the White Horse Ranch homeowner's association (HOA) wrote a letter against Kyle. They wrote that Kyle is violating the White Horse Ranch Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs).
However, commissioners were unclear whether the letter represented only the four board members or the HOA membership.
No one from the public spoke in opposition of the application.
Kyle told the commission he did not know he was violating a county ordinance "until someone turned me in."
The commission voted to forward a positive recommendation based on the lack of opposition to Kyle. However, they are recommending a 10-year temporary use permit.
The commission also gave a positive recommendation to Larry Olson's application to change zoning from residential to commercial for five acres of a 10-acre parcel he owns near Seligman.
The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors hears the commission's recommendations March 2 in Prescott.