Housing plans shelved for now
Keene Sentinel Area briefs, 7/6/07
Plans for 150 town houses near the future county jail in Keene have slipped down the slope of the Hill property.
At least for now, the developer said.
In a letter to the Keene City Council, Chris Stewart, a vice president with Landmark Planning & Development LLC, which was planning the corporate park, said he is withdrawing the application for rezoning the property. But, he also wrote, “my intent is to reapply sometime in the future.”
This morning Stewart said he pulled the rezoning application because it appeared the council’s planning, licensing and development committee would not approve it.
Landmark wanted to build the $200,000 town houses on about 60 acres of the 109-acre property on Route 101 near the Marlborough town line - known as the Hill property. However, it needed to have the land rezoned from rural to medium density.
A portion of the property is already slated for a new Cheshire County jail.
The developer’s dropping of the town houses will not affect its plans for building a multi-purpose corporate park on about 40 acres of the property, Stewart said.
The rezoning of that property from rural to corporate park is in the council’s planning, license and development committee for the next 90 days while city officials examine the potential for the project to increase the threat of flooding.