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Erie council approves Spring Hill preliminary plat, with oil‑well cleanup and drainage conditions
Summary
The council approved a preliminary plat for Spring Hill, a 300‑acre planned community with 632 lots, conditioned on confirmed plugged-and-abandoned status for on‑site oil and gas wells and compliance with setback requirements; residents pressed officials on water and traffic impacts.
The Erie Town Council on April 14 approved a preliminary plat for Spring Hill, a roughly 300‑acre planned community that would create about 632 residential lots, reserve a roughly 10‑acre school site and conserve roughly 162 acres of open space, subject to conditions tied to oil‑and‑gas remediation and setback compliance.
Staff said the proposal fits the town’s low‑density residential comp plan designation and recommended approval with conditions requiring documentation that all wells within the plat boundary are formally recognized as plugged and abandoned and that no final plat creating residential lots will be approved until the lots meet applicable oil‑and‑gas setback rules. “The applicant must provide…
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