WILTON – Planning Board members have voted unanimously to deny an application for a five-lot subdivision on Village View Street, according to Code Enforcement Officer Paul Montague.
At their most recent meeting, the board voted not to provide a waiver to a statute that requires a developer to provide a single means of access to a subdivision. The current plan shows separate driveways to each of five parcels which developer Adam Mack intends to sell individually as building lots.
Without the waiver, the plan does not meet the town’s subdivision ordinance and it is for this reason the board voted to deny the application, Montague said Friday.
But Bob Berry, a project engineer with Main-Land Development Consultants Inc. of Livermore Falls who represents the developer, said “It’s a new board, and they’re inexperienced.” They’re just making sure they’re following the ordinance, he added.
He said Friday that he intends to submit a modified plan to closer meet the ordinance in pursuit of a waiver. The new plan will also reflect the addition of deed restrictions that would require future lot buyers to be responsible for sustaining required soil erosion plans. The lots are situated on a steep embankment above Wilson Stream.
According to Montague, the developer has six months to submit new plans.
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