Developer details bespoke buffering commitments for adjacent homeowners
Oct 13, 2026
Lore Development described individualized buffering commitments — including a 60‑foot natural buffer with 11 trees per 100 adjacent to one property and a 40‑foot buffer at another — and agreed to walk perimeters with neighbors and record commitments in the packet; commissioners pressed for enforceable, recorded assurances.
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Petitioners described a set of perimeter buffering commitments made after multiple on‑site meetings with adjacent homeowners. Phil Sunling outlined an agreed 60‑foot natural buffer with "11 trees per 100" for one neighbor and a 40‑foot buffer with selected species (white spruce/white pine or Norway spruce) for another, and said the team would walk each property line with homeowners, remove invasive honeysuckle and then plant specified trees.
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