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Developers present White Clay Point plan; residents press traffic, wells and sewer concerns
Summary
Stonewall Capital and homebuilder Lennar presented a revised plan for the White Clay Point development (622 residential units), saying the project will include mixed housing, retail placeholders and more than $20 million in sewer upgrades; residents repeatedly questioned traffic, private‑well contamination risks and demands for baseline testing and stormwater mitigation.
Stonewall Capital and its home‑building partner, Lennar, gave a detailed update on the White Clay Point development at the New Garden Township Board of Supervisors meeting on Oct. 20, 2025, describing a mix of stacked townhouses, age‑targeted villas, and single‑family homes and saying the project team has been talking with prospective retail partners including Provco and Sprouts.
The developer said the project would replace the 2007 concept plan and that the company expects to invest over $20,000,000 primarily on sewer upgrades; it also estimated $5 million–$7 million in traffic improvements will be required and said traffic mitigation measures and engineering studies will be coordinated with township staff and PennDOT. Bill Krieger, vice president of land acquisitions for Lennar’s Pennsylvania‑Delaware division, described proposed home types and price bands for the attainable and market‑rate units.
Residents used the public hearing to press specific impacts: concerns centered on the plan’s scale (622 residential units), traffic impacts at the Sunnydale (Route 41)–Reynolds Road area and a blind corner near the middle school, and potential contamination of private wells from runoff and lawn‑care chemicals. One resident asked whether the developers would be required to establish baseline well testing or provide public water hookups; the developer said the project must comply with stormwater quality and quantity standards and that discussions with Aqua (the sewer provider) remain confidential for now, while township staff pointed residents to the Chester County Department of Health regarding well regulation. A resident cited a previous 2007 requirement for baseline testing and asked the board to reinstate that condition; a township supervisor asked the developer to commit to a baseline nitrates study and the developer agreed to conduct it.
On traffic, the developer said updated traffic studies are in progress and that the scope typically includes intersections and turning‑movement modeling for nearby roads; the team said prior plans had assumed much larger retail square footage and that the current plan will generate fewer retail trips but more residential trips noting the project’s residential count matches the figure provided in earlier settlement documents. Police and engineering staff said traffic modeling will include intersections beyond Route 41 and Sunnydale and that results will be shared on the project website when available.
Developers said they are amending the settlement agreement to replace the 2007 concept plan to account for the sale of the sewer system and updated stormwater requirements, and they expect to submit land‑development applications to the planning commission within one to two months. The team projected roughly a year for site engineering and approvals and a multi‑year buildout once construction begins.
The board did not take formal land‑use action at the meeting; staff confirmed that traffic, stormwater and sewer studies will be reviewed by township engineers and the planning commission as part of the standard land‑development process. The developer was urged by board members and residents to continue direct outreach to neighboring HOAs and to post impact studies to the project website for public review.
The public‑comment period closed without a vote; the planning commission will next review submitted materials as part of the land‑development process.
