Son-Lan has purchased more land near 50/Mt Pleasant

I remember discussion a while back about the rezoning in this area. My grandma lives in South Breeze MHP at Sanders/50 and it has just been taken over by Son Lan. Does anyone know what this means for the residents?

 

Means you are going to get some new neighbors.

And you can gripe, whine and complain all you want (not you specifically but all those people who hate developers) but the fact is that no one is making these property owners sell (except for DOT when they put in new roads). Not one developer that i have ever known as walked up to someone with 100 acres and told them they have to sell or else. These people with big tracts of land have decided for whatever reason it is no longer worth keeping the land. So they put the word out that they are looking to sell and whoever offers them the most, they sell. In this case it happens to be Son-Lan. Could have just as easily been Freds Development Emporium.

 

Well check some of that. I was thinking of a piece of land somewhere else.

To the best of my knowledge, Son-Lan has not rezoned that tract of land or bought it.

 

It means: More traffic on roads that can't handle what they service now, more dirty highways, not enough tax support to handle it, more jobs for illegals, and the reason I'm moving away from, what was, the most beauitiful place I've lived in for 30 years.

 

Anyone know why they knocked down the house and doing something with the land at 50/Old Drug Store?

 

When did they do that? I live right up the road and hadn't noticed it. (I haven't been up that way in a couple days) If it's the one I'm thinking of it had some sort of rezoning (?) sign in front of it the last couple weeks. Makes you wonder...I know the house next to it on Old Drug Store just sold to someone my husband knows last year, and the house across the street (you can't see it, it's back in the woods) is for sale, I wonder if they all know something we don't?

 

50 and Old Drug Store....the road intersection there is being re-aligned to line up with the development going in across the street. I believe the house being torn down is a by-product of the road re-alignment. The new intersection, coming off of Old Drug Store will include a left turn, straight across and a right turn. 3 lanes of fun instead of what they have now.

 

Ah! I've been wondering about the big pile of dirt, and then the house getting bulldozed. Didn't know about the development across the street.

 

Anyone know what kind of development it will be, ie price and type of homes? And when it's supposed to start? We live up 50 a little bit, and are actually thinking of moving (for other reasons) and are just curious. I do now remember seeing the pile of dirt, but forgot about it.

 

AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGG!!!!!!!
the development going in there is going to be an addition to Creekside place,
folks in creekside have been dealing with a headache of woes withthis as they are trying to make the only way to enter the new section will be through the only entrance in and out of Leach Dr. wich will cause traffic problems in and of itself.
they original idea was to put just single family home's like those in creekside, then they wanted to put a strip of commercial store and creekside home owners whent into overdrive to keep that from happening. and they succeded, so all that said it is going to be homes just like creeksides beautifull homes. but i am still not sure whats going to happen about adding another entrance. ( sorry i know i can babble) this is a touchy subject for those who reside there.

 

I used to live in a development with similar circumstances, we were told if you have over so many homes (don't remember the number) that you needed to have more than 1 entrance.

 

Any subdivision with 100 lots or more require a 2nd entrance to the subdivision along with stub out roads to adjoining properties of a certain size.

Best that i know, the new area of homes will have the road coming straight across from Old Drug Store, run through the development and tie in to an existing stub out in Creekside...thereby creating a new entrance/exit.

 

1. Subdivision proposing more then 100 lots shall provide a secondary entrance or an emergency vehicle access point. Subdivisions proposing 201 lot or greater are required to provide two entrances. [Sec 14-226]

Actually Grinder, the Jo Co ordinances only REQUIRE a second entrance for subdivisions with 200 lots or more. If there is not enough road frontage for a second entrance, subdivisions larger than 100 lot can get approved with only 1 entrance. I know of one that was.

I know I've complained about the excessive development, and I hope I didn't come across as though I'm against Developers. I'm not. I'm against the Commissioners not planning efffectively in adjusting to all the growth.

 

Thats what the ordinance might say, (its wrong) but you can not get a 100 lot subdivision through the planning department or the planning board without a second entrance...unless as you mentioned there is not enough road frontage to support the other entrance.

And even with the lack of road frontage for a second entrance, to get it pass the developer must show how they plan to deal without the other entrance. In most cases they will show stub out streets to other properties that they plan on buying or even have under contract...which when developed might lead out to another exit street.

Most cases if a person develops a tract of land, 10 years ago, and gets 85 lots out of it and now is going to buy the 400 acre tract next to it, the planning board will not let him put in the additional 600 lots and still use the 1 main entrance even though the first subdivision was less than 100 lots and didnt have to put in a second entrance.

 

Yes, but the planning board will allow the 600 lot owners use the 85 lot entrance as a second entrance. So, the 85 home owners who were told they were buying into a smaller-sized subdivision that wouldn't be over 85 homes, are now faced with the additional traffic from those 600 lot homes. :evil:

 

I'm not against development at all, am just concerned that my 77 year old granny may have to move her trailer. She got notice that she should start paying rent to Son-Lan. Is there any chance that it may stay a MHP? I know the previous owners were older, I think their health caused the sale.

 

Creekside subdivision has 140 lots and only 1 way in 1 way out and they want to ad 48 more homes.....go figure!

 

Only if there is another entrance and i would guess 2 or 3 more entrances for that many lots. Look at Adams Point. 475 lots and there are 3 entrances/exits for it.

 

Could be. Dunno. I havent seen any plans or the like, or a rezoning app on this piece of property.

 

As i said earlier, there will be another entrance/exit for Creekside once the new lots are finished and the road re-aligned there at Old Drug Store.