Planning Department staff summarized a multi-part application (agenda items 12 through 16) proposing changes to approximately 12.68 acres of a larger 20-acre site. The package includes a plan amendment to redesignate a portion of the site to Compact Neighborhood, a zone change to reclassify parcels from RS-20 and RS-3.3 to RS-2, removal of the R and P overlay, vacations of drainage and streetlight easements and a tentative map for 111 single-family lots.

Staff said the waiver request would reduce rear setbacks to 6 feet where 15 feet is required; the setback reduction would apply to about 100 of the 111 proposed lots. Enterprise Town Board recommended denial of the package. Staff reported one approval card for the plan amendment but 11 protest cards; for the vacations, waivers and related design review staff said there were 12 protest cards and four protest letters.

Why it matters: the reclassification to RS-2 and a blanket rear-setback reduction for most lots would substantially change lot sizes and neighborhood form across the proposed subdivision, and the Town Board recommended denial.

Details: the planning package is a companion set of actions: plan amendment; zone change; vacations of easements including a portion of Valley View Boulevard right-of-way for detached sidewalks; waiver of development standards to reduce rear setbacks for most lots; design review for single-family development; and a tentative map for 111 lots. Staff noted the request affects a 12.68-acre portion of a larger 20-acre project area.

At the briefing staff presented the Town Board recommendation of denial and summarized public opposition; no formal Planning Commission vote occurred at the Sept. 2 briefing.