Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
The Middletown Planning Commission voted to table a review of the Stone Meadow Farms proposal.
For the ninth time, developer Metropolitan Development Group came before the planners to push their plan to introduce changes that they hope will satisfy officials.
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The developer aims to construct 121 homes on the 168-acre Stone Meadows Farm property. The current plans divide the development into two sections that have 86 homes off Newtown-Langhorne Road and 35 dwellings off and along Fulling Mill Road. Just under 50 acres of open space, including a floodplain, and 9.45 acres for the existing Stone family homestead and farm buildings are set aside. The lots for each home vary in size from 24,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet.
The developer came before the planners Wednesday evening to discuss 57 comments on the plans. The number is much higher than most proposals that come before planning commissions.
Planning Commission member Charles Parkerson pushed to table the plans until the developer could work with township professionals to come to agreements on many of the outstanding issues.
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“I want a clean engineering plan before you’re before us,” he said.
The planning commission unanimously approved tabling the motion.
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Members of the group Save Stone Meadows Farm, which is seeking to persevere the largest farm remaining in Middletown, broke into applause after the vote.
In Feburary, the planners voted down a previous development proposal for the farm.
Metropolitan Development Group began their formal effort to construct homes on the site in 2015. 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.
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