CEDARBURG — A new single-family housing development is being proposed in the northern part of the city of Cedarburg.
The people who were involved in developing the Glen at Cedar Creek on Sheboygan Road are now looking to develop 24 single-family homes just south of that neighborhood on the other side of the road. The applicant, being referred to as the Glen at Quarry Park LLC, is eyeing a 11.53 acre vacant site behind two homes at 1067 and 1085 Sheboygan Road. The site is also directly east of the Stone Lake Condominium development.
Earlier this month, the Plan Commission is recommended to the Common Council to approve rezoning the site to Rs-3 single-family residential with a Planned Unit Development Overlay.
“I think this plan is going to be really nice,” said Commissioner Sig Strautmanis.
City Planner Mary Censky said 10 acres of the site are part of Smart Growth Area 9, which was recently adopted the land use classification as medium-low density residential. The remaining 1.53 acres directly behind the existing homes off Sheboygan Road are not part of SGA 9 and are classified as medium density residential and are zoned as Rs-3 single-family residential.
Censky noted the applicant is looking for the certain exceptions to the underlying zoning district standards and to do so, the city requires the site be rezoned to Rs-3 with a PUD.
The maximum density permitted within Rs-3 zoning is 3.6 units per net buildable acre, or 41 units. However, this development proposes 24 units or 2 units per net buildable acre.
In addition, the minimum required lot size in Rs-3 is 12,000 square feet. The largest proposed lot size is 19,300 square feet and the smallest is 10,530 square feet with the average lot size being 13,137 square feet.
The minimum required lot width in Rs-3 is 90 feet, and the proposed widest lot width is 122 feet and the narrowest being 80 feet.
Lastly, the minimum setbacks in the Rs-3 for the sides of the lot be 8 feet but the proposal has it at 7.5 feet.
“Those are the points and places where they’re asking for some flexibility,” Censky said. “Otherwise, the project complies with the city code.”
The housing development would have public streets, which a couple commissioners expressed support of.
Commissioner Jack Arnett, who said he supported the project, mentioned the project having single-family homes and lower density seems to comport with what the public has been telling the city they want.
There will be a public hearing regarding this during the Common Council meeting on Nov. 24 prior to the council taking action.
In other business, the Plan Commission approved the building, site, exterior lighting, landscaping and architectural plans by Luther Group to construct an 86,700-squarefoot spec industrial building on an 8.9-acre vacant lot in the city’s Highway 60 Business Park.
According to the packet information given to the commission, no future tenants have been determined.