Case for Cahaba Valley Road subdivision approved

S & C Family Partnership submitted their request for a preliminary plat that will subdivide 71 acres of land off of Cahaba Valley Road into 18 residential lots to the Shelby County Planning Commission at the Nov. 19 meeting.

The lots will eventually become a community of homes called Buckhorn Valley Estates. S & C Family Partnership came before the commission with a master plan for the subdivision in May 2018, which was then approved. The project will be divided into two phases. Since the presented preliminary plat followed along with the set master plan and is in compliance with county A-1 regulations, a motion was presented and seconded to approved the case.

A potential issue presented itself in the way that the subdivision would drain and treat rainwater and runoff. However, the way the community is set to be built would take care of this issue. The water will be drained into an infiltration system in the ground, a process that Chad Scroggins called “innovative.”

“They’re going to drain the house and the impervious surface into an infiltration system in the ground," he said.

The second case presented came from a county property owner wanting a family resubdivision of lots one and two of Hickor-Nut Hills. The final plat presented to the commission for approval would break lot one into two residential lots (lot 1A and lot 1B), with lot two being expanding and lots three and four remaining the same size. Per county regulation, no more than five lots of land are allowed in a family subdivision.

Due to the lots of land planned to be resubdivised being in such close proximity to a neighboring family subdivision tentatively planning to have a cell phone tower built on their land, the neighbor who owns the second subdivision approached the commission, asking if land being resubdivised would present a problem.

However, since the possibility of building a cell phone tower on the neighbor’s land had not been presented to the commission, they were not able to consider it in making their decision. In turn, the neighbor sided with the property owner in favor of the resubdivision.

The last order of business for the evening was to recognize the work of commission member Amy Smith with a resolution of appreciation. Smith has been a member of the Shelby County Planning Commission since May 14, 2012. She served one term as Vice Chairman of the Planning Commission, and Michael O’Kelley has been appointed as her temporary successor.

The proposed Shelby County Planning Commission schedule for 2019 was presented and approved.