GREENWOOD, Ind. — The Greenwood Advisory Planning Commission on Aug. 25 approved a petition allowing developer Lennar Homes to relocate 19 required street trees from the Elmoitte Estates 2 subdivision to common areas and buffer yards, with a condition that priority tree replacements be placed in common areas with trails.

The waiver, filed as PC2025-026 by Lennar Homes of Indiana LLC, was approved by a 9-0 roll-call vote after staff recommended the commission permit relocation of trees that could not be placed along public frontage because of site constraints.

Commission staff told the commission the request was similar to prior waivers, saying there was ‘‘not enough space to put trees every 40 feet like we require’’ and that the 19 trees should be moved to common areas. Greg Binter, a representative of Lennar Homes who spoke for the petitioner, said, "We are just requesting the waiver to move the 19 trees to common areas and or path area, whichever is the choice of the board." The commission attached the staff-recommended condition that those relocated trees be placed in common areas with trails.

The waiver seeks relief from the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) streetscaping requirement identified in staff materials as section 10-03-06(H). Staff and the petitioner said the relocation is needed because of conflicts with right-of-way and driveway locations within the subdivision.

A motion to approve the waiver carried unanimously. Commissioners voting aye in the roll call were Mister Schell; Mister Walker; Mister Kroes; Mister Price; Mister Milborne; Mister Lexi; Miss Stambaugh; Mister Probst; and Mister Grimes. The motion’s second was recorded as coming from Mister Probst; the record does not specify the member who introduced the motion verbally.

The petition materials described 139 required street trees for the project and requested relocation of 19 of them; the transcript of the recorded motion contains an inconsistent numeric reference (at one point referencing 130). The approved action and staff condition reference the 19-tree relocation to common areas with trails.

No public remonstrators spoke on the item. The commission’s action grants the developer the subdivision landscaping waiver; any future construction or site work will proceed through the city’s normal permitting and inspection process.

The commission meeting record shows the waiver was decided during the regular session on Aug. 25; no appeals or further conditions were recorded at the time of the decision.