Date: Fri 15-May-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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P&Z-Sugar-Acres

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P&Z Approves Sugar Acres Subdivision

The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) has approved Sugar Acres, a

residential subdivision in the Borough of Newtown with street frontage at 7-A

Main Street and Roosevelt Drive.

The site is west of the police station.

The Sugar Acres development proposal is a longstanding one, with various

versions of the development plan being the subject of Conservation Commission

and Borough Zoning Board of Appeals sessions during the past several years.

The applicant, Newtown Borough, LLC, gained P&Z approval May 7 to subdivide 11

acres into 3 building lots. Much of the land on the 11-acre parcel is wet and

will remain undeveloped open space.

P&Z member Robert Taylor, who also is a Borough Zoning Board of Appeals

member, explained to P&Z members that the applicants finally received zoning

variance approvals from the appeals board after a third application.

The developer needed those zoning variances because the property doesn't

conform to borough zoning regulations concerning building setbacks and road

frontages.

P&Z member Heidi Winslow observed that although the land to be subdivided is

"a very difficult piece of land," the subdivision proposed by the developer is

a "reasonable" one for the site.

In an earlier version of the project, the applicant sought to create four

building lots.

More than six acres of the 11-acre site will be donated to the Borough of

Newtown Land Trust.