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Rose Star subdivision prompts prolonged debate over PUD density, conservation easements
Summary
A proposal to carve three single-family lots from upland inside a codified PUD drew sustained public scrutiny on May 6, with residents and environmental advocates pressing staff and the developer for documentation showing that earlier conservation easements and bonus-density calculations remain intact. The TRC continued the item to June 3 for legal and technical follow-up.
A contentious exchange at the Walton County Technical Review Committee on May 6 centered on a proposal to subdivide upland parcels inside the codified Walton Apartments planned-unit development (PUD), known in their files as the Rose Star Subdivision.
Planning staff said the developer had moved most sensitive wetlands and buffers into common open space and that recorded conservation easements (about 19.8 acres) appear in county files and in DEP records. "Everything here is on uplands, not in a conservation easement," David Campbell, the applicant’s engineer, told the committee, urging that the…
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