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Developer files plans for two new subdivisions on Crow's Nest peninsula Date published: 4/3/2007 By MEGHANN COTTER The owner of Crow's Nest has filed two new subdivision plans for sections of the environmentally sensitive Stafford County peninsula.
K&M Properties of McLean plans a 30-lot community, Sycamore Hills, on 96 acres north of Raven Road. A 31-lot neighborhood, Hickory Hills, is proposed for 172 acres north of Potomac Creek. Each is zoned rural residential, allowing minimum one-acre lots. The Planning Commission will have to approve the blueprints before construction can begin. The plans come after months of controversial drain-field testing and related clearing activities. County officials issued a stop-work order in the fall, claiming K&M disturbed too much land without a permit. But in November, the firm successfully defended the digging in court. Sycamore Hills sits northwest and Hickory Hills is southeast of Crow's Nest Harbour, a large subdivision platted in the 1970s, but never developed. Sycamore sits outside the 2,887 acres county officials want to condemn and preserve as a state park. Both projects were part of the developer's previous subdivision plan, which the Planning Commission denied last January. It proposed 688 homes on 3,230 acres of the peninsula. Land now planned for Sycamore Hills was slated for development in that application. Hickory Hills had been left as open space. Commissioners cited improper lot sizes, lack of information on maps and inaccurate dimensions as reason for denial. K&M has appealed that decision to Circuit Court, but a hearing has not been scheduled. The developer's attorney, Clark Leming, said efforts to build on the peninsula are ongoing, despite the appeal and county efforts to condemn the land. He said preliminary work will continue on other portions of Crow's Nest with intentions of submitting future plans. Supervisor Paul Milde said he still hopes the county can purchase the most sensitive part of the peninsula before construction begins. "At the end of the day, if we save 3,000 acres of Crow's Nest and they get 30 houses approved on a remaining parcel, that's a huge victory for Stafford County residents," he said. Meghann Cotter: 540/374-5434Email: mcotter@freelancestar.com
Read more stories about Stafford Date published: 4/3/2007
No more new home construction in the area- I am sure that
won't hurt your home price--complaining in your back yard
to your neighbor won't help---Perhaps we should hire the
Best Buy - lowe's or Home Depot developers/planners to
organize the county infrastructre they seem to have better
organization--Development is coming now it needs toi
become better organized and scheduled rather than
limited
put up a parking lot for a McMansion.
No more development in Stafford County until it's infrastructure can at least handle the current overdevelopment. Please NO MORE till then.
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