Date: Fri 27-Sep-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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P&Z-subdivisions

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Plans Filed For Five More Subdivisions

B Y A NDREW G OROSKO

The town has received five new residential subdivision applications, totaling

81 lots on more than 200 acres.

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members went through a stack of

construction blueprints at their September 19 meeting, accepting the five

development proposals for review. Public hearings will be scheduled on the

applications in the coming weeks.

Bennetts Farm Associates is seeking to resubdivide Lot 64 at the Bennetts Farm

development in Sandy Hook. The associates are seeking to create 36 lots on 84

acres near Charter Ridge Road.

High Meadow Farm Associates want to resubdivide Lot 33 at the Cobblers Ridge

development in Sandy Hook. The proposed resubdivision in the area of Cobblers

Mill Road would create 18 lots on 34 acres.

M&E Land Group wants to create Tamarack Woods consisting of 10 lots on 32

acres near Lake Lillinonah. The development site is bounded by Tamarack Road,

Sanford Road and Echo Valley Road.

The Tamarack Woods proposal is a revised version of an earlier development

plan which M&E had withdrawn from consideration. Area residents had raised

many environmental concerns about home construction in the rustic area.

In its revised plan, M&E proposes construction of a new road, Lafayette Trail,

to provide access to the houses. In its previous plan, M&E proposed providing

access to the new homes from existing roadways, an idea which drew heavy flak

from project opponents.

David G. Kaufman is seeking approval for Autumn Ridge, involving 10 lots on 42

acres. The property is near Butterfield Road. A new road, Autumn Ridge Road,

would be built to serve the subdivision.

High Meadow Farm Associates wants approval to create Eagle Ridge, involving 7

lots on 16 acres. The land is near Alberts Hill Road, in the area of the bald

eagle overwintering site on the Housatonic River.

Because the five residential subdivision applications were accepted for review

by the P&Z at its September 19 meeting, the applications will be considered

under the P&Z's existing regulations concerning the placement of houses on

building lots in residential subdivisions.

By getting their applications by September 19, the developers avoided the

possibility that their applications would be reviewed under proposed new

stricter regulations on such house placements.

A public hearing on those proposed stricter regulations was scheduled for the

night of September 26, after the deadline for this edition of The Bee.