Stone Meadows Farm Project Will Come Before Supervisors In March

Correction: An previous version of this story stated the Zoning Hearing Board voted down the plan. In fact, it was the Planning Commission that voted down the plan.

The proposal to build 123 homes on the 168-acre Stone Meadows Farm property in Middletown will come before the Board of Supervisors next month.

Metropolitan Development Group’s plans were initially put on the agenda for this Tuesday’s meeting, but the developer’s attorney submitted a letter late Friday afternoon to move the matter to the Monday, March 4 meeting, township officials told LevittownNow.com.

The Middletown Planning Commission voted earlier this month not to recommend that the Board of Supervisors approve the plans over concerns about traffic, a proposed connector road to Summit Trace, and the width of roadways in the proposed development.

The current plan put forward by Metropolitan Development Group would break the neighborhood into two sections – 88 homes off Newtown-Langhorne Road and 35 dwellings off and along Fulling Mill Road. The plans provide for close to 50 acres of open space, including a floodplain, and 9.45 acres carved out to maintain the existing Stone family homestead and farm buildings. The lots for each home range in size from 24,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet.

Metropolitan Development Group has been working over the past several years to turn Middletown’s largest privately-owned agricultural property into a neighborhood.

The Stone Meadows Farm property is under an agreement of sale with Metropolitan Development Group. Sources have said the estimated purchase price for the property is between $8 and $16 million.

Neighbors have formed Save Stone Meadows Farm in an effort to preserve the farm that is owned by relatives of famed actors Ezra Stone and Sara Seegar, who dominated stage and screen during their careers last century.