Date: Fri 07-Jun-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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subdivision-Taunton-Hill

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Subdivision Proposed For Taunton Hill Area

M&E Land Group is proposing a 15-lot residential subdivision for the Taunton

Hill area, known as Wedgewood.

A Conservation Commission review of proposed wetlands construction work for

the project is slated for June 12 at 8 pm at Town Hall South. In reviewing

such proposals, the Conservation Commission serves as the town's Inland

Wetlands and Watercourses Commission.

The wetlands construction request involves building a driveway over a one-acre

wetland area on the parcel.

M&E Land Group, whose principals are developers Thomas Maguire and Larry

Edwards, also has two other development proposals pending before the town -

the 16-lot Whispering Pines proposal for Cherry Street and Pine Street in

Sandy Hook, and the 10-lot Tamarack Woods proposal off Tamarack Road.

The 28-acre Wedgewood parcel lies in an area with one-acre residential and

two-acre residential zoning.

The land is located on the east side of Taunton Hill Road, roughly one-half of

the way between the intersection of Taunton Hill Road, Great Hill Road and

Plumtrees Road and the intersection of Taunton Hill Road and Birch Hill Road.

The proposed subdivision would be served by a dead end street extending from

Taunton Hill Road toward the end of Crossbrook Road but would not connect with

Crossbrook Road. The Wedgewood project would contain three residential rear

lots.

In the past, the town approved a residential subdivision for a portion of the

proposed Wedgewood development. That subdivision was known as Sunset View, but

it was never constructed.