Title
Resolution to Approve Nixon Farm North Site Plan and Development Agreement with Modifications to Chapter 62 Landscaping and Screening, and Wetland Use Permit, 3381 Nixon Road (CPC Site Plan Recommendation: Denial - 5 Yeas and 2 Nays) (CPC Modifications and Wetland Use Permit Recommendation: Approval - 7 Yeas and 0 Nays)
Memorandum
Approval of this resolution will allow for the construction of the Nixon Farm North residential development.
Petition Summary:
* This project includes several related petitions, including annexation (approved), R4A With Conditions zoning (pending), and a site plan.
* The Site Plan petition includes a request for landscape modifications, a wetland use permit, authorization for activity in the natural features open space, a development agreement and a traffic mitigation agreement.
* The Site Plan proposes construction of 208 attached dwelling units, each with a two-car garage incorporated into the front of the unit, on a private drive network. The units are grouped into 51 buildings, most having four or five units each. The density of the proposed development is 3 dwelling units per acre. Sixty-five percent of the site, 48 of the 64.5 total net acres, is proposed as open space.
* Two Chapter 62 Landscape Modifications have been requested. A conflicting land use buffer modification is requested to allow the existing woodland area along the west side of the site to serve as the conflicting land use buffer. An interior landscaping modification is requested to allow the driveways within the development to be treated as a private street, with the associated street tree requirements, rather than a vehicular use area.
* A combined wetland use permit has been submitted for this development, Nixon Farm North, and its sister development, Nixon Farm South, to place 2,271 cubic yards of fill in 0.43 acres of wetland; excavate 536 cubic yards from 0.14 acres of wetland; enclose 170 linear feet of two separate unname...
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