Council reviews Wellington Green master plan, presses for stricter construction conditions for 220-unit project

Wellington planning staff on Monday reviewed the master plan and project-standards manual for the Wellington Green development, a proposed 220-unit multifamily project that would include about two acres of private recreation and four acres of open space.

Planning staff said the item on the agenda consists of second readings of a future land use map amendment and rezoning and a single hearing on the master plan, which would adopt the project standards manual and the conditions of approval for the development. "[T]his would approve the 220 multifamily residential units," planning staff said during the meeting.

Council members focused their discussion on construction conditions and neighborhood impacts, citing recent problems on other projects as a reason to tighten requirements now. Councilmember Barnes and others urged the town to require perimeter buffers and to sequence early landscape and berm work so screening is in place before most intrusive site work begins. Planning staff noted that…