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In exchange for a low density house development, Riverside Highlands, the areas new golf community in Delaware County, will avoid a public referendum.
The conservation development zoning is around eleven hundred acres located just off Routes 745 and 42 and will be the new location for the Riverside Highlands community which when completed will have eight hundred and twenty single family homes as well as a 214-acre golf course; all set amidst 365 acres of undeveloped space and park land.
Further the lots were put into contract by Triangle Real Estate Company. These sites were beautiful and that is why they were easily sold. Buyers include Rockford and Silvestri Custom Homes.
The groundbreaking date for Kenney's new golf community will be in March or April. Additionally, the utility lines are scheduled to start at that time for Kenney's new golf community. Finally, the communities, after development plans are finished, will include one thousand twenty-nine acres in Concord Township and fifty-nine acres in Union Counties Mill Creek Township.
Kenny's has still to decide on whom they will be hiring to design the golf course. The estimated cost for the community’s private golf course alone is thought to be up to one million dollars. The development ground for Kenney's private golf community will be acquired shortly before construction begins in the spring.
Kenney's private golf community follows his other developments Scioto Reserve and Kinsale golf courses in southern Delaware County. In total, Kenney's communities will provide four thousand homes. That's a lot of housing," the man himself said.
Riverside Highlands were launched in August. The farmlands topographical features were documented after a walking survey was commissioned. The project was reviewed by the Delaware county regional planning commission. Further, the community’s project was reviewed under a conservation development zoning plan that was required to attract low density housing developments.
The community’s housing is on a smaller lot, but “everyone gets to enjoy the open space and the beautiful scenery” said Phil Laurien, executive director of the Delaware County Regional Planning Commission. Kenney's private golf community did not have to go through a formal approval process.
The community’s development plans were still reviewed by the township and planning commission. Public hearings over the community’s plans were held first as it was deemed a quicker review process. Developers are allowed to claim the zoning without a formal approval process.
The Riverside Highlands project requires Kenney to build a sewage treatment plant to serve the development around Concord Township. The county will then take ownership of the plant and maintains its operation.
Two smaller projects are under consideration in Trenton Township, while there’s a possibility that the Genoa housing project will follow the same route.
