Date: Fri 14-Jun-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

Quick Words:

zoning-rear-lot-developers

Full Text:

Proposed Zoning Change Spawns A Flood Of Applications

B Y A NDREW G OROSKO

In light of the Planning and Zoning Commission's (P&Z) intention to eliminate

rear house lots in one-acre residential zones, builders and developers have

been submitting residential subdivision applications for areas with such

zoning at a rapid pace.

The P&Z plans to hold a public hearing June 20 at 8 pm in the Alexandria Room

of Edmond Town Hall on its proposal to repeal the town's zoning regulations

which allow rear building lots in one-acre residential zones.

P&Z members added rear-lot, one-acre residential zoning to the zoning

regulations last summer, but since then they have determined that such zoning

creates construction densities that are too high.

The zoning regulations allow rear house lots in two-acre and three-acre

residential zones. Commission members aren't planning to repeal those rear lot

regulations.

In submitting their subdivision plans now, builders and developers are seeking

to beat any deadline which the P&Z may create for the submitting applications

for one-acre rear lots in one-acre residential zones. The number of rear lots

allowed is based on a mathematical formula.

Among those builders and developers who have submitted subdivision

applications are:

Nick and Gino Vona, Oak Ridge, Phase Two, 28 lots on 83 acres, Oak Ridge Road

and Eden Hill Road.

M&E Land Group, Wedgewood, 15 lots on 27 acres, Taunton Hill Road.

Bennetts Farm, Section Three, 15 lots on 132 acres, northern end of Yogananda

Street.

Newtown Development Group, Pinnacle Ridge, 10 lots on 14 acres, Route 302,

Sugar Street, Dodgingtown Road.

Colgate University, New England Woods, 5 lots on 21 acres, Jet Brook Road.

Joseph Dewhirst, Hemlock Hill, resubdivision of Lot 8, 4 lots on 32 acres,

extension of Winesap Road and Rockywood Drive.

Nagy Brothers Construction, Inc., unnamed subdivision, 3 lots on 8 acres,

Hemlock Road and Little Brook Lane.

M&F, Inc, Lone Oak Meadows, resubdivision of Lot 32, 2 lots on 6 acres.

Although they haven't yet been submitted for P&Z review, at least two other

residential subdivision applications are expected to be submitted in the

coming weeks. Both projects have received wetlands construction approvals from

the Conservation Commission serving as the town's Inland Wetlands and

Watercourses Commission.

They are:

Cavilere & Sons, Camelot, 44 lots on 115 acres, Hattertown Road and Purdy

Station Road.

M&M Development, Butterfield Woods, 13 lots on 40 acres, Butterfield Road and

Georges Hill Road.