Applicant proposes private drive and lot split on Youngs Hill Road; board says project may be feasible if rules met

Zachary Roller, an applicant and presenter, told the Loudon Planning Board he represents a cousin who owns a roughly 40-acre parcel on Youngs Hill Road and asked whether the board would consider a private road and lot split so his family could move onto the property and help care for the owner.

Roller said the property currently has roughly 555 feet of frontage on Youngs Hill Road and one existing house. He proposed constructing a privately engineered road about 850 feet long with a 24-foot travel surface (he noted 22 feet is required by regulation) and a 57-foot turnaround radius so that two lots could be served without creating two separate driveways onto Youngs Hill. He also said a roughly 75-foot wet area appears on GIS, he has not completed a survey, and some proposed lot…