Liberty Trust, the developer, had wanted to develop 117 units onthe site but the town's planning board had insisted that the planinclude fewer than 100 units. According to Karen Switzer-Neff ofthe town's planning department, the site is zoned for 80,000-sflots but the cluster zoning will enable the developer to go tosmaller lot sizes of about an acre each.
Switzer-Neff tells GlobeSt.com that the town has a number ofcluster zoning developments. "People think you can get more unitsand more continuous open space that way," she says. This site, sheadds, connects to land owned by the Boy Scouts of America.
The town tried to acquire this site two years ago but townvoters ultimately rejected the proposal, which required a debtexclusion override. The public hearing for Robbins Mills isscheduled to take place tonight.
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