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The Windsor Planning Commission recently reached consensus to hold a work session to hear a proposal for a 14-lot housing development along Old Suffolk Road and Tyler Drive. 

The work session is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25, at Windsor Town Hall, taking place just prior to the commission’s regular monthly meeting, which will begin at 7 p.m.

At the Planning Commission’s May 28 meeting, Windsor Interim Planner Maxie Brown presented commissioners with documentation for a proposed zoning map amendment for the rezoning of 11356 Old Suffolk Road that would help allow for the development.

She indicated that the tract in question, currently zoned A-1, Agricultural, is on Old Suffolk Road and Tyler Drive and backs up to the Norfolk Southern railroad. The tract is a total of 30 acres, she said, but she added that approximately 4.65 acres are located in the county, so they will not be part of the rezoning.

“The developers are requesting a rezoning to the low-density residential (LDR) zoning district classification,” she said. “I am working with them currently on proffers. 

“They are also in the process of doing soil testing at this time, so it is not a complete application at this time, but it has been submitted, and they have submitted a concept plan, and the concept plan does meet the requirements for the LDR zoning district,” she added.

In the documentation Brown provided to commissioners was a revised cover letter from Hassell & Folkes P.C., an engineering, surveying and planning firm, that was communicating on behalf of Joe Benton.

The letter proposed the following aspects of the housing development:

1.) 14 lots of 60,000 square feet (minimum);

2.) 25-foot right-of-way grant from center of line of road (during the detailed subdivision plan, legal research would be completed to determine if the Route 636 roadway is a prescriptive easement or a fee right-of-way);

3.) 5-foot minimum width frontage sidewalk;

4.) All residences would have architectural shingles and vertical and horizontal siding;

5.) Stone and/or brick façade options would be available;

6.) The community would consist of both one- and two-story dwellings;

7.) All houses would be sized from 2,000-3,000 square feet of building area.

The documentation from Hassell & Folkes P.C. included an aerial-view exhibit, showing how and where the development would be situated, with each lot growing longer and thinner from left to right in a unique design that reminded Commissioner David T. Adams of a bowling alley.

“When I saw the 60,000 minimum square foot, I got excited,” he said. “Then I saw some ‘bowling alleys,’ so that’s interesting design, but I like it.”

Windsor Town Hall is located at 8 E. Windsor Blvd. in Windsor.