WILTON – Kathleen Masterman, an abutter to the recently approved Village View Subdivision, has appealed the Planning Board’s decision to permit the subdivision.
Masterman, a resident who has owned property next to the subdivision for the past 33 years, said Thursday she is appealing the decision to grant landowner Adam Mack a permit for a five-lot subdivision on Village View Road because she thinks the board made “procedural errors as well as errors in judgment.”
The board voted 4-3 to approve Mack’s application in January after waiving a portion of the subdivision ordinance that allows subdivisions to have only one entrance to a town road.
Mack had originally proposed a separate entrance for each lot, but after the board rejected that proposal he cut the entrances to three.
Masterman contends the waiver was “improper.” She said Thursday that she also worries that the subdivision’s location, along the side of a steep embankment leading to Wilson Stream, is dangerous both for landowners and the environment. She said she worries about the individual septic systems Mack plans for most of the lots, and that the soil erosion already happening along the stream’s banks will intensify with building on the lots.
The planned subdivision “changes the character of our village, impacts the environment and adds nothing to the town,” Masterman said Thursday.
The appeal hearing date is set for Thursday, Feb. 23.
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