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.x, . . , - .r drive will come out at Shepherd's Hill which is a blind dip in the road and will be dangerous. Building Commissioner Conway advised that the six items he mentioned in his letter would have to be addressed by the board of zoning appeaLs and that, since he was just advised that only 11 acres is zoned Multi- Family, and his figures were based on 13.7 acres, some of the figures will have to be adjusted. Mr. Bower emphasized that they do have an approved plan for 156 apartment units and believed that this was a good use of this land. He clarified that they have built smaller complexes with 12 or 14 units. Mr. Manning speculated that there would probably be four people in each unit and with two cars this would generate approximately 212 cars and considering guest cars, he wondered where they would all go. He also believed that there would be quite a few children along with that traflic which could be a safety problem especially since it had been determined that there were to be no sidewalks. Mr. Bower responded that each unit has one garage space and a parking space .in front of the garage with visitor parking through out the site, and that the nu.mber of parking spaces exceeds the requirement. There would be 30 to 50 foot rear yards where children could play. Mr. Herbster pointed out that children would have to walk in the street to get to a friend's house. Mr. Bower explained that the houses would be Williamsburg colors with consistent roof colors throughout, but the siding colors could be decided by the architectural review board. Mr. Manuing stated that, if everything was the same, it would give the appearance of a project, and believed this could affect surrounding property values. W. Bower stated that, in all their developments, the values of the adjacent property has never decreased, if anythiug it has increased. He stated that this would be a first rate, upscale, community that has a lot of residential features. Mr. Brennan noted that a recent market trend is to build bigger, more costly units, such as Butternut Ridge Apartments and this seems to be going backward. Mr. Bower stated that the square footage ofthese units was between 1,300 and 1,350 square foot, much larger than the Butternut Ridge Apartment units. In response to the members.questions,. Mr. Bower advised that they were trying to keep the streets as 25 feet wide, in some places they might be smaller; that the distance to the front of the houses to the street was about 15 feet with the porches extending further out; that there was about 60 feet of Brookpark Road right of way beside their internal road, but the road could be moved; the homes are 40 feet from the right of way of Brookpark Road; and the pool is adjacent to Brookpark Road because they want to expose the pool to the traffic. Mr. Tallon is concerned about the homes in Phase three which are in the first 100 feet, and back up to a home on residential property, but this phase probably would not be done for some time. W. Bower explained that they would do the far western phase first; the second phase would be phase one; phase two would be third and phase 3 would be the last phase. He explained that the one home on Clague Road that was the closest to his homes was a rental house. It was clarified that most of the adjacent property is developed, but, the lot his drive goes through and one other lot is vacant. He clarified that the home beside his private road will remain, they do not know if they are going to sell it or rent it. It was clarified that.the ADA required that a certain percentage of the homes had to be handicapped accessible and handicapped parking spaces would be assigned. The neighbors spoke at this time. Mr. Paton, who lives next door to one ofthe driveways, was advised by Mr. Bower that there were no plans for Section 8 housing as had been rumored. Mr. Paton showed a sample of the grasses and weeds that are on the properiy which Shore West does not maintain at present, the only times it gets maintained is when he complains to City Hall and wondered how they would maintain this proposed development. He stated that he was lodging a formal complaint and wanted to know if they were going to maintain it at present, before it gets built. He stated that when he bought his home, he had a hard time finding out who owned the property, much less how it was zoned. Mr. Conway stated that it would not have been hard for his real estate agent to find out the zoning. Mr. Paton handed the weeds to Mr. Bower. Mr. Wasmer commented that some of his neighbors were not notified. He is concerned that there are no sidewalks, and wondered how trash pick up would be handled. He pointed out that Mastic Road was a high accident area because there is a bend in the road, the exit on Clague is extremely close to the traffic light, and pointed out that this could be used as a cut 5