Monday, June 23, 2008

Project up for renewal may affect property all the way down past Greathouse Park: Fayetteville Planning Commission meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. today


Fayetteville Planning Commission agenda for 5:30 p.m. June 23, 2008

This would be the perfect day for our planning commission to table a project up for a one-year renewal for the start of construction and require a reassessment of the stormwater-management plan for the land.
The condo project up for renewal at Razorback and Fifteenth drains south directly into the west arm of the Town Branch of the White River and west directly into a tributary of that stream.

Several houses downstream near South Brooks Avenue and South Stirman Avenue have flooded in the past and others are at risk of flooding if just a slightly longer-lasting heavy rain ever occurs and creates a higher flash flood than has ever occurred in the past. If the stormwater requirements aren't strengthened now, this project may be built without concern to the property or lives of people further downstream.

I wonder whether the houses downstream were considered in the original approval process?

The city rules require notifying owners of adjacent property when PZDs are up for approval. How about notifying everyone who owns property downstream and everyone who lives in a house downstream? Might prevent having empty seats at some planning meetings!

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