Major projects surface on state review agenda
Plans for area projects totaling more than 1,400 lots and nearly 500 multifamily units have been submitted over the past two months for review by the Office of State Planning Coordination's Preliminary Land Use Service.
The proposed projects are expected to generate an average of 17,000 more trips during weekdays on Sussex County roadways.
Peninsula Square, corner of Autumn Road and Route 24, Long Neck, calls for a 100-room hotel, 6,200-square-foot restaurant, 15,000-square-foot medical office and 40,000 square feet of retail space, plus six, three-story apartment buildings with 144 units on a 30-acre parcel. Zoning is commercial-residential, CR-1. The average weekday traffic count is estimated at 4,000 vehicles. The developer is Limitless Development LLC of Milton.
Bridlewood, near the intersection of Banks Road and Green Road, Long Neck, includes 667 lots on 301 acres of agricultural-residential, AR-1, land. The traffic count is estimated at 6,566 vehicles on an average weekday. The developer is Baywood LLC and Sussex Realty Co. of Long Neck.
Wilson Moore property, between Route 9 and Gravel Hill Road, near Georgetown is located on a 316-acre parcel of AR-1 land. The site plan includes 580 single-family lots. The estimated average weekday traffic is projected to be 5,223 vehicles. The developer is Natelli Communities of Gaithersburg, Md.
Street Properties is between Wil King Road and Robinsonville Road, near Lewes. The site plan has 173 single-family lots on 102 acres of AR-1 land. The developer is Bryon Homes of Delaware LLC of McLean, Va.
Baywood Garden Villas, Phase 1, is at Long Neck Road and Bayshore Drive, Long Neck. The site plan includes 209 units of multifamily housing on 17 acres of C-1, commercial, land. The average weekday traffic count is estimated at 1,218 vehicles and the developer is Baywood LLC for both phases.
The Baywood Garden Villas, Phase 2, site plan includes 144 units of multifamily housing on 20 acres of B-1 neighborhood commercial land. The developer is seeking a rezoning to GR-RPC, general-residential-residential planned community, as an expansion of the adjacent Baywood RPC.
Developers will make presentations on two of the four projects during the Wednesday, July 25 meeting in Room 133 of the Haslet Armory, 122 Martin Luther King Blvd. South, Dover. State agencies will review the Peninsula Square project at 10:30 a.m. and the Wilson Moore property proposal at 1:30 p.m.
Also on the July agenda at 11 a.m. is a review of a proposed new 310,000-square-foot Sussex Central High School at the intersection of Patriots Way and Avenue of Honor near Georgetown on a 155-acre parcel owned by the Indian River School District. The district has plans to convert the existing adjacent high school into a middle school.
The Bridlewood, Garden Villas and Street properties projects were presented during the June 27 PLUS meeting.
State agencies will provide comments to developers after reviews of the projects. Developers will then have a chance to respond to the comments and file land-use applications with Sussex County to begin the public-hearing process.
