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Cherry Blossom East Subdivision

At a glance

  • What: Cherry Blossom East Subdivision (H-2025-0030), a preliminary plat adding three interior lots near Fourth Street.
  • Where it stands: Council approved it on September 8 on a five-aye roll call after a long hearing continued from July.
  • Next: Staff and the city attorney are to work with the applicant on a springing cross-access agreement; nothing else is scheduled.

Details

  • The hearing was continued so the applicant and two neighboring properties to the south could agree on a cross-access easement for a shared driveway for emergency vehicles and trash service. No agreement was reached. The sticking points were the width of the existing drive (18 feet as surveyed by the applicant versus about 15 feet as claimed by neighbors), whether the easement should be 5 or 11 feet, and who repairs and maintains the shared drive.
  • Residents of the existing Cherry Blossom subdivision wrote that the irrigation pump shuts off when many homes water at once and asked that it be fixed before lots are added; the applicant offered an updated pump design and later agreed to design and install its own irrigation system for the new lots.
  • Approval conditions: the applicant designs and installs its own irrigation system, staff and the city attorney work on a springing cross-access agreement, and a waiver of the 18-foot drive width including a two-foot curb.
  • Council members described it as a missed opportunity for the neighbors to agree on one shared driveway.
  • Applicants and neighbors who are private individuals are not named.

Sources

Log

2026-09-08 - City Council

Hearing continued from July 28 concluded. After testimony from the applicant, the neighbors' counsel and a resident, Council closed the hearing and approved the application on a five-aye roll call with an irrigation condition, a springing cross-access agreement to be drafted, and a waiver of the 18-foot drive width.