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Sussex County council defers decision on 352‑unit 'Swan Lake' RPC after public questions on access, drainage and lake safety
Summary
Council deferred action on a proposed Residential Planned Community (RPC) called Swan Lake, a 352‑unit development on 183.19 acres, after the applicant presented technical reports and nearby residents raised concerns about a historic dirt access lane, drainage, and use of a deep borrow pit being converted to a recreational lake.
Sussex County Council on Thursday deferred action on Change Zone 2021 — an application to establish an AR‑1 RPC overlay for a 183.19‑acre property to accommodate 352 residential units (161 single‑family homes and 191 townhouses) to be called Swan Lake — to give council members time to review extensive technical materials and public comments.
The applicant team, represented by attorney Tim Willard of Fuqua, Willard & Shop, and project consultants, described a mixed‑residential RPC that would preserve roughly 114 acres of community open space, reclaim an existing 29‑acre borrow pit as a lake and amenity, preserve federally delineated non‑tidal wetlands (about 14 acres), and connect to Artesian Water and Sussex County sewer. The project…
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