Area Plan Commission replats five North 22nd Street lots into three, over a resident's parking and sewer concerns

What happened

The commission approved replatting five out-of-compliance lots along Maple Avenue near North 22nd Street into three lots that meet the city's minimum lot size, clearing the way for up to three single-family homes where as many as five could have gone before. (1:09:38, 1:10:05)

Resident Cindy Miller, who lives across the street, opposed the plan, citing the block's Hungarian immigrant heritage, narrow streets already backed up by railroad traffic, deteriorating sidewalks, and a sewer line she said she'd once been told was in disrepair; she asked the commission to allow parking on only one side of the street. (1:06:14, 1:08:27)

Commission members and staff told Miller the vote only redrew lot lines and didn't decide any specific housing type or affordability level, and suggested she call the city's non-emergency line about the sidewalks. (1:09:30)

The outcome

The replat passed on a voice vote. (1:10:53)

Sources

• Four-plus out-of-compliance lots, redrawn, 1:09:38
• Up to three homes from what used to be five lots, 1:10:05
• Cindy Miller's objection, 1:06:14
• Sewer-line concern, 1:08:27
• Commission: vote is only about lot lines, 1:09:30
• Vote, 1:10:53

Also known as: Vernon Court · Maple Avenue replat · North 22nd Street subdivision · Hungarian neighborhood lots