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PROJECT TO BEGIN WITH DOZENS OF SUBDIVISIONS
Mike McCagg
ccSCOOP News
02-11-10 – 4:45 p.m. - The first step of the 112-unit proposed housing development in Stockport will be a subdivision of 81 parcels that make up the development.
At Tuesday’s meeting, representatives of SSD Stockport presented the development that is planned for a field between Route 9 and Chester Avenue in the hamlet of Stottville. The single-family houses would be built along a new road that would be constructed from the end of Sunset Avenue (located off Chester Avenue) to Route 9 while the townhouses would be constructed in the northwest corner of the property.
The developers presented the Planning Board with revised plans for the development and outlined the process that has seen the project come before board, be unofficially withdrawn, and resubmitted as a smaller plan. So far, the project has required a change in zoning law, which happened place last October when the Planning Board created a Planned Development District. The PDD designation allows the developer to construct houses on lots smaller than the half acre required by the original zoning designation for the area.
Planning Board Chairman John Florio said the next stop for the development project is March 9 at 7 p.m. when the Planning Board will begin review of the subdivision request that would, if approved, create 76 single-family lots, a lot for a townhouse unit, and four open space lots. "We start work reviewing the request at that meeting,” he said. "After we complete that, then it moves on to the site plan review process.”
Just how long it will take for the project—one of the largest to be proposed in the county in years—to wend its way through the review process is unknown.
“The amount of time will depend on what they submit, what the public has to say, and how many questions we have,” said Florio. |
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Public comment is certainly expected since the project drew many questions and concerns when first proposed in 2003. Among the concerns raised then were that the project would add stress the water and sewer systems, increase the call volume of emergency services, impact drainage in a hamlet already troubled by flooding, and impact the viewshed. Brandee Nelson of Crawford and Associates said the developers have responded to those concerns with the current proposal, which includes group the houses to limit the impact on the viewshed from Route 9. They have also begun negotiations with the Columbia Land Conservancy about the management of some of the forever-wild areas included in the proposed development.
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