LELAND — Settler’s Village, a 74-unit townhouse development on Village Road, was just continued. Again.
For the fourth time, Leland Town Council voted to continue a public hearing on the development, first opened in October.
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The townhouse project faced criticism at its first hearing after Hurricane Florence. At that meeting, neighbors of the project, including a former Leland planning board member, spoke out against it.
“I cannot understand for the life of me why you would put that much impervious surface on the flood zone,” Susan Seltzer, a former planning board member said in October 2018.
Though a portion of the property lies in the flood zone, current plans show no building structures will be constructed on wetlands. And Leland’s staff is confident flooding will not be an issue at the site.
When the topic was introduced Thursday, Ashli Pirozzi, Leland’s senior planner, asked to delay the topic for a fifth hearing in February. Pirozzi said the developer, Bishops Ridge, LCC, has been working closely with the town’s staff.
“We feel confident that we will have a better product for you,” she told Council. “The applicant –and staff is supporting — their request to continue that until the month of February.”
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