The owner of a long-established trucking business has raised concerns about a proposed residential development on 12th Concession Road in Langton.
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The applicant, an Ontario numbered company, is proposing a zoning bylaw amendment, which would allow the creation of a subdivision constructed in two phases.
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The first phase includes seven single-detached homes with frontage on Jenny Lane and Priddle Drive, and one block for storm water management.
Phase 2 includes one block for widening the right-of-way of Jenny Lane; one new street with connection to Highway 59 and 12th Concession Road; and one block to be retained for agricultural farmland.
Each lot would have private servicing for water and wastewater.
The 94-acre lot is currently being used for agriculture and has been the subject of previous severances for houses and lots, said a report from Norfolk County staff.
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Trevor Benjamins, a land use planner with CJDL Consulting Engineers, said after seven homes are built in the first phase of the project, an additional 17 homes would be constructed on the new street in the second phase.
At a public hearings committee meeting on Tuesday, Jim Money, owner of Don Money Transport, located to the west of the proposed development, said he has concerns about the compatibility of the homes with his commercial business.
“We’ve been there for 89 years and we’re not going anywhere,” Money said. “I don’t want the hassles of neighbors who buy new lots and homes and they don’t like trucks.”
Money said over the past decade or more one-acre lots have been developed in the area. Many, he said, have garages and operate side businesses.
“These kinds of people fit into our zone really well,” he said. “If I have trucks, they don’t mind.”
Benjamins said the timeline for the proposed development is dependent on draft plan approval but the hope is to start construction of the initial phase next year and the final phase “shortly thereafter.”
Norfolk County staff will now prepare a recommendation report so councilors can make a final decision on the application at a future meeting.
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