CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — At its meeting last week, the Camden County Planning and Zoning Commission approved recommending to the county commission, with variances, a request by Chris Kersten of Porto Village Group, LLC for a preliminary plat for the Porto Village Subdivision, consisting of 40 lots, in Sunrise Beach. 

The plan is to build 36 homes, with larger-than-normal garages. Four of the lots will not be used for residential purposes. Commissioner Jacob Nuesche abstained from the vote which included variances for the A frame and sidewalks.

Common ground and tree buffer areas designated as common ground are located on Ridge Circle and Cove Circle. A portion of the common ground will be utilized as lake access with a shoreline boardwalk and a boat ramp.

The properties are located in an R-1, Low Density Residential district and a B-2 General Commercial District. The developer intends to construct 36 single family residential dwellings on the R-1 zoned properties which are considered future options for the B-2 zoned areas. 

The applicant’s properties total 35.98 acres of previously undeveloped land and lots in Shawnee Bend No. 6, with one existing single family two-story A frame house. 

The proposed use is 36 single family lots, four of which include lakefront lots, as well as accessory lots. Lot 10 has an existing Quonset hut, which zoned R-1. Lot 11 is zoned B-2 and it has an existing bunk house which will be removed. Lot 12 has an existing two story A frame house and Lot 13 is currently zoned B-2, with an existing well house. 

PUD amendment approved

The P&Z commission also approved a Planned Unit Development amendment, with staff recommendations. The amendment will change 13 single family lots to nine duplex/townhouse lots at Mission Bay for the development of two residential townhome dwelling units per lot. 

The property is located off of Twin Rivers Road or Lake Road 5-65 in Greenview. The parcel is part of a PUD known as Mission Bay. The action sought to amend the original approved Mission Bay PUD. The underlying zoning for the parcel is R-1 low density residential. 

Matt Marschke spoke to the commission in favor of the PUD saying, “This project has been around for nine years, and my client found a better market demand for townhomes.” 

There was a public hearing on this case the same evening, with no opposition.  

2014 P&Z Report

The Camden County Planning and Zoning Commission granted permits for 77 new residential buildings, 40 home additions, 29 decks, sunrooms and swimming pools, 75 residential garages, seven garage additions, nine residential retaining walls, four residential manufactured homes (new and replacement), nine residential temporary or second dwellings, two residential duplexes, 13 new commercial construction, three commercial additions, 15 commercial or condo garages, one commercial hotel, 25 commercial RV sites, five land disturbances. In zoning the commission rezoned 18 properties, granted two CUP/SUP, 133 surveys, 40 variances and they handled 33 complaints in 2014. 

These recommendations will be brought before the Camden County Commission for a final decision. 

In his ending comments, Commission Chairman Jerry Carroll updated the commissioners on the Gary Prewitt case saying the judge ruled in favor of Camden County, and the case can be appealed, and most likely will be in the Supreme Court of Appeals. Carroll stated that whether or not Prewitt will be allowed to operate the Lazy Gator property this summer will be in the hands of the judge. According to Carroll, Camden County has won every one of the court cases with Prewitt through the judicial system, and they were each appealed to a different court. “It’s not like Camden County or P&Z has been sitting on their hands. It’s the judicial system and the way it works,” Carroll ended. 

In a recent court ruling, Judge Ralph Jaynes denied Gary Prewitt and Glacier Park Investments’ request for a default judgment of $2.7 million, and has reiterated that Lazy Gators, which the county contends is operating illegally on residentially-zoned property, must stay closed indefinitely. Camden County has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Prewitt case. 

Prewitt has recently commented about the case: “I intend to take the legal battle through the appeal process as far as necessary to prove how foolish the county’s zoning of this property is. The county will be spending thousands of tax dollars on legal fees every step of the way. The people of Camden County are being ill served by this ridiculous expenditure of tax dollars to defend the indefensible.”

The next meeting of the Camden County P&Z Commission is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at the Camden County Courthouse.


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