Date: Fri 27-Feb-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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P&Z Rejects Five-Lot Subdivision Proposal

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have unanimously turned down a

residential subdivision request from Colgate University to create several

building lots off Jet Brook Road.

In a 4 to 0 vote at a February 19 P&Z session, members Heidi Winslow, James

Boylan, Daniel Fogliano and Robert Taylor rejected the university's request to

convert a 21-acre parcel into five lots. Jet Brook Road is a short dead end

road that extends southward from Castle Meadow Road, just north of the Monroe

town line.

Citing a report from Town Engineer Ronald Bolmer, Mr Fogliano said the

selectmen are requiring that certain stormwater drainage construction work be

performed at the site, but such work is not depicted on the applicant's plans.

Much development work which the selectmen are requiring is not shown, Mr

Fogliano said.

Exactly what road construction work and drainage work would be done as part of

the proposed subdivision must be clarified by the applicant, Mr Fogliano said.

Ms Winslow said the development project could create problems in a shallow dug

well used by a nearby children's day care center.

Also, some residents living in the area of the proposed development have

raised questions about whether they received sufficient legal notice of a past

public hearing on the subdivision proposal, she said.

Ms Winslow said the drainage questions pose the major stumbling block for the

proposed development.

She commended the applicants for the steps they had taken to provide open

space land on the parcel.

P&Z members then voted to reject the application, as submitted.