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Residents urge scrutiny of 150-acre Maple Hill Road proposal; developer ties and density questioned
Summary
At the council's year-end meeting, residents pressed elected officials to scrutinize a combined rezoning/plan request for two tracts on Maple Hill Road, alleging undisclosed developer relationships and disputing claimed densities; planning staff said unit counts will be set in the area's SP zoning document.
At the Lebanon City Council's final meeting of the year, several residents urged the council to scrutinize a proposed residential development on Maple Hill Road, saying the application understates who is behind the project and understates its cumulative impact.
Eric Dawson, of 106 Chapman Drive, told the council the filing combines two proposals — a 150-acre tract and a 96-acre tract — and asserted the 150-acre proposal is linked to a developer not previously disclosed to the public. "Summit Development LLC was created in 2024 and is a hidden arm of Signature Homes in Birmingham," Dawson said, adding he would return at the Jan. 6 meeting with a diagram to illustrate the wider development context. He…
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