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Commission backs land-use amendment for Riverview Villages, continues rezoning and plat for more review
Summary
The commission voted to recommend a land-use amendment to allow Riverview Villages (a proposed mixed-use, new-urbanism PUD on roughly 77.33 acres) to move to city council, but continued the associated rezoning and preliminary plat to Dec. 15 to allow more time to review PUD variances and technical details.
The New Castle Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council amend the 2040 future land-use map to allow mixed-use residential and commercial uses for the Riverview Villages site (PAR 2025-005) and then continued the related PUD rezoning and preliminary plat to the Dec. 15 planning commission meeting for additional staff and commissioner review.
What happened: Janine Greenlee of the New Castle Planning Department and the applicant’s design team described Riverview Villages as a roughly 77.33-acre PUD north of Highway 37 and about 1.5 miles west of the I-44/Highway 37 interchange. The owner/developer team includes R and R Land Development LLC and Bell Investments LLC; Building Culture presented the design. The project proposes a new-urbanism layout with narrow, shared lanes, four-inch mountable curbs, 0 lot-line front setbacks in some neighborhoods, and a village center with smaller-scale commercial buildings and live-work units.
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