By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer

Morgan County Planning Commission members recommended approval of three Madison projects on the agenda at their regular meeting last Thursday.
   

The group unanimously approved a rezoning on Hunter Lane involving a split of property with frontage on both Hunter and Park Lane in Madison. The new lot will be sized at just over half an acre; it will be zoned R-2.
   

The primary discussion from the public involved the prospective buyer’s need to reroute sewer lines on the property, which the city will do at the owner’s expense. The newly re-routed lines will enter and leave the property at the same points that they do currently, but on-property pipes will be moved so that a house can be situated on the new lot.
   

Commission members also recommended approval of changes to the city’s planning ordinance to allow the sale of small trailers as a conditional, accessory use on car-sales lots.
Finally, the group recommended that business owners on North Second Street be granted a variance to allow off-site parking by employees while a new lot is developed.
   

Madison City Council is expected to take up these recommendations at their regular meeting on August 12.