Non-Age-Restricted Housing Back on the Table

Lacey Town Village is back on the Planning Board’s agenda for the third time since January with hopes of getting its site plan changes of age-restricted to non-age-restricted housing approved.

The Planning Board asked Lacey Town Village to make various modifications to its plan multiple times and issued an extension.

Last month, the applicant expressed disinterest in the extension but Mayor Gary Quinn believes they will be back Monday night.

The Lacey Town Village was originally approved as age-restricted housing in 2005. The applicant re-approached the Planning Board with modified plans because legislation (S2577 1R) passed by Gov. Jon Corzine in July 2009 allowed developers to challenge towns over the age-restricted status of pending developments.

The law, proposed to stimulate the housing market, applied to developments that were approved but had yet to begin construction or sales.

Aside from the addition of a tot lot, the applicant’s plans for the market-rate housing have not changed from the age-restricted plans.

With 84 units (67 market rate units and 17 affordable units), some with the potential for three bedrooms, the development has 44 parking spaces planned. No on-street parking is allowed, because the development’s network of streets is 24 feet wide. The development would have a 1,503-square-foot community center with a capacity of 139 people and 10 parking spaces.

Modifications that the Planning Board asked to be made to Lacey Town Village includes additional parking, the relocation of the tot lot, and to provide a Coastal Area Facility Review Act approval for a road they plan to build.

Residents have showed many concerns over the non-age-restricted development including the cost to educate more children, the need for age-restricted housing, the lack of parking, and the ability to sell the townhouses in today’s economic climate.

Lacey Square Condominiums is also on the agenda for the Planning Board. This development is looking to switch from age-restricted to non-age-restricted housing as well and has been on the agenda for the past three months but has yet to approach the Planning Board.

The Planning Board meeting is Monday, March 14 at 7 p.m.

To read more about Lacey Town Village read:

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(Jan. 10)