Anna planning commission backs Thompson Grove PD recommendation, approves preliminary plat

The City of Anna Planning and Zoning Commission on Nov. 3 voted unanimously to recommend approval of a planned-development zoning request for Thompson Grove and separately approved the subdivision's preliminary plat.

The action concerns an approximately 18-acre site in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction on the west side of Ferguson Parkway. The applicant, represented by Kelby Golden of Onyx Development Company, asked that the site be annexed and zoned PD for SF-6 (50-by-120-foot lots) to allow roughly 76 detached single-family homes. The application requested four modifications to standard development rules: a reduction of the required cul-de-sac length (to 200 feet from 400), exemption from an extra 10 feet in lot depth for lots backing to the major arterial, removal of the neighborhood point system in favor of a landscape enhancement plan, and an increase in allowable building coverage from 50 percent to 55 percent.

The commission's recommendation to council included one explicit condition: the developer must provide a house-repetition plan to limit duplication of the same facade on adjacent lots. Commissioners considered, but declined to adopt, a staff recommendation to require the specific four architectural elevations the applicant showed; the final motion required only the house-repetition plan. Commissioner Herman moved to recommend approval; Commissioner Volmer seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Separately, the commission approved the Thompson Grove preliminary plat, submitted by the Constantine Family Trust, finding it met the…