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Neighbors press commission on Riverview Villages PUD; developers offer concessions and hearing is continued
Summary
Extensive public comment and commissioner questioning forced the Planning Commission to continue the rezoning/PUD application R2025-005 (Riverview Villages) to Jan. 26; the developer offered revisions including limiting multifamily buildings to six units, capping height at two stories/40 ft, a 20 ft rear-yard buffer adjacent to Riverview Estates, and a tree buffer.
The Newcastle Planning Commission on Dec. 8 continued its review of a proposed rezoning and planned unit development, R2025-005 (Riverview Villages), after several hours of staff presentation, technical questions and a lengthy public-comment period dominated by neighbors' safety, density and buffering concerns.
Staff introduced the PUD, saying the application would rezone about 77.33 acres along Northwest 32nd Street and Riverfront Drive for a mixed-use village with a commercial frontage along Highway 37 and residential/multifamily areas behind it. The plan includes variances to local subdivision code (reduced street widths, sidewalk requirements and certain lot-size restrictions), a proposed parkland area of about 15.28 acres, and design standards that call for Architectural Review Board…
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