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Planning commission approves Converse Crossing and Alder Oaks PUDs, secures land for village park and bike-path commitments
Summary
The Plain Planning & Zoning Commission approved preliminary plans for two adjacent Planned Unit Developments — Converse Crossing and Alder Oaks — endorsing an 8-acre village park site, bike-path frontage commitments and reduced density after Arbor Homes removed an affordability-focused product from its plan.
The Plain Planning & Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval of two preliminary planned unit development plans Tuesday, endorsing land-donation for a village park and developer commitments to bike-path frontage while recording several design and safety concerns for later review.
Gary Smith of G2 Planning, representing the Arbor Homes portion of the Converse Crossing proposal, told the commission the Arbor “arrival” product — an affordability-focused model — was removed from the application because shrinking it to a smaller pocket would not achieve the affordability outcomes the developer intended. “After just going through all this, we felt like this is probably a good place for us to end up,” Smith said, explaining the application now reverts to Arbor’s standard 54- and 64-foot lot product and that the revision…
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