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HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93008_0924419 POPE: Do you know who will be responsible for maintaining the streets until they are accepted? BECKHAM: It is my understanding they will be maintained by the homeo.mcrs' association. POPE: Have any of the lots been sold in the subdivision? BECKHAM: Not to my knowledge. POPE: The zoning ordinance refers to some buffering between PRD zones and adjoining residen- tial zones. I note along the eastern border the property, a natural, actually I guess it's the southern border, is referred to as a natural wooded buffer, do the other buffers also tend to be natural wooded buffers? BECKHAM: Yes. POPE: In fact is the property along the borders now wooded? BECKHAM: Yes, it is. POPE: Does the ordinance itself require any percentage of the area to be set aside as common area? BECKHAM: There is no minimum size for common area. POPE: There is an area designated in the center of the plat as open area, is that contemplated as being common area? BECKHAM: Yes, it is. POPE: That would be owned by the property owners? BECKHAM: Yes, property owners' association. POPE: To what purpose would it be put? BECKHAM: As I understand, that is a potential site for the community well, otherwise I do not know how the developer intends, or if he intends to improve that. POPE: Do you know what amenities the developer intends to add to the I-velopment? BECKHAM: Those have not been disclosed. POPE: In your opinion, is the application complete? BECKHAM: Yes, sir, withstanding the conditions I have mentioned previously, being the DOT highway engineer review and approval, the approval of the water system and septic system, the question about liability insurance being addressed. Except for those three issues, the application is complete. POPE: Is it the opinion of the planning staff that the development creates an environment of sustained desirability and stability? BECKHAM: Yes, sir. --- POPE: Are there any other questions of Miss Beckham? HEDRICK: I don't know if this is a question for Lisa, but in looking at the plat the lot lines appear to terminate at the edge of the right-of-way at the proposed Ridgecliff Drive and Sunny Path, or is that not correct? I guess they go to the center of the road. Is that correct, Bill, or Lisa? Who owns the road? The people on either side of it have a joint interest in it? BECKHAM: It's a public dedication. No one owns it. HEDRICK: Somebody will have to own it, won't they? POPE: Yes. It appears to be proposed, Mr. Chairman, that the property be sold to the boundary of the street, and the street itself will be dedicated to public use. A fee simple title to the street would be owned by the developer, subject to the right of the public to use it for a street. HEDRICK: My question is getting in the direction of who pays taxes en it, anybody? POPE: Well, it would have little nor no tax value, if it's superimp,sed with an easement in favor of the public for a street. At some point in the future it might have value, but not if it's being used as a street. HEDRICK: I didn't know if the property owners would, in fact, own it and be paying taxes on it or not. ' MILLS: Lisa, there are two questions I have. First of all the proposal has seven possible duplex or, as I understand it, they can be developed, those lots can be split up and have a single- family dwelling on it.