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STOCKPORT PROJECT TO GO BEFORE TOWN BOARD NEXT MONTH
Mike McCagg
ccSCOOP News
09-16-09 – 12:10 p.m. - The Stockport Town Board could act as early as October 7 on a proposal that would clear the way for a large scale development in the hamlet of Stottville. Supervisor Leo Pulcher told ccSCOOP on Wednesday that the board is ready to act on the law declaring the area between Route 9 and Chester Avenue a Planned Development District. The area is now farm and woodland.
The Town Board conducted a public hearing on August 4 on the proposal that would clear the way for SSD Stockport to develop a 34-acre parcel into an area that would accommodate 76 single-family residences and 36 age-restricted town houses. The land in question is currently zoned “half-acre residential.” The proposal, which involves a total of 122 acres, would be an example of “cluster development”: the 112 units would be built on 34 acres; the remaining 88 acres would be designated “forever wild.” The proposal—one of the largest developments proposed for the county in a decade—has been scaled down from a proposal presented by the same developer five years ago. The original proposal involved more than 100 single-family homes and several dozen town houses.
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Sunset Boulevard |
Since the public hearing, the board has tabled action while awaiting word from the developer and lawyers about the ownership of properties along Sunset Boulevard. The road, which connects to Chester Avenue, will be used as the eastern exit for the development. The development would stretch from the boulevard along a new roadway that would eventually exit onto Route 9 at a new intersection. Pulcher said on Wednesday that the Town Board has now been advised by town attorney Jason Shaw that it should take action on the development designation and follow that with the acquisition of easements and the eminent domain proceedings necessary for Sunset Boulevard. The easements are being acquired by the developer; the eminent domain action is necessary for a parcel of land on the south side of the roadway where a title search has yielded no ownership answers. Pulcher said the easements and eminent domain proceedings will provide enough land to make the essentially single-lane roadway into a two-lane road, with adequate land for water, sewer, and utility lines.
“The message is we are moving. Work is being accomplished,” Pulcher said on Wednesday. The development proposal has won the support of the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, which has stated that the housing it would create is needed for further business development in the county.
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