The Plan Commission for the City of Prescott met this past Monday, February 3rd at City Hall, and chief on the meeting agenda was a request from Siewert Construction “to replat a portion of Planned Unit Development from attached housing units to single family units with a 50 foot lot and 10 foot side setback.” Put into plain English, the request by Siewert Construction sought to build single family home units 40 feet wide on 50 foot lots, with a five feet setback on either side for each lot, or ten feet total between neighbor dwellings.

Countil member Rob Daugherty had comment to share on the proposal from Siewert.

“I think it’s good,” he said of the residential building project, of which the first phase would seek to construct 44 townhomes. The townhomes would be slab on grade and are custom built. During the presentation by Todd Siewert of Siewert Construction, Commission member Steve Eggers asked if the ten foot separation was from the overhang or from wall to wall, to which Siewert said it would be wall to wall, with Mayor Dave Hovel stating that state code did allow for a ten foot separation from wall to wall.

During questioning, it was further stated by the Mayor that while city couldn’t require Siewert to use something other than vinyl siding, it could require a different setback. “If everyone likes the general concept, I don’t mind the concept,” Mayor David Hovel said.

The cost of the homes was reported by Siewert to be in the upper $300,000 range, and there was also discussion on water and sewer, with it being determined that it would come in from Dexter Street. The possibility of needing utility easements if the utilities crossed another person’s lot was raised, and the concept plan for the replat was approved by the Plan Commission, with a motion made by Daugherty and seconded by Plan Commission member Lother Nawrocki, then passing without a negative voice vote. Siewert was instructed to create the new survey map and show where the building will be set on the lot, and Mayor Hovel had a final thought for those present.

“We’ll wait for a master plan to come back and give it an, ‘I like it,’” he said.