By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
Joe Mathis, who is developing the 21-lot Lone Hickory Village subdivision off Morlan Park Road, wants to change the setbacks for his lots.
His proposal for setbacks on all lots is 10 feet in front, 5 feet on the sides and 15 feet in the rear.
The setbacks approved with his original plans in 1999 ranged from 25 to 40 feet in front, 5 to 15 feet on the side and 15 to 25 feet in the rear.
Mathis wants to expand the building footprints on each of the 21 lots by reducing the setbacks.
Mathis will take his request to the Salisbury Planning Board, which meets at 4 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 217 S. Main St.
The city’s Technical Review Committee discussed the Mathis request last Thursday and had concerns that his proposal for 10-foot rear setbacks would be less than an earlier required 15-foot landscape buffer.
City staff reported at the TRC meeting that neighbors to Lone Hickory Village also had expressed concerns about significantly reduced setbacks.
Mathis offered to increase the rear setback to 15 feet to match the landscape buffer.
The TRC recommends home setbacks of 10 feet in the front, 5 feet on the side and 20 feet in the rear.
Lone Hickory Village will have two dead-end streets: Mathis Avenue and Jared Steele Lane.
In another Planning Board matter Tuesday, Timothy Smith, owner of Matika Villa Mobile Home Park off Airport Road, seeks to rezone the park from Urban Residential to a Manufactured Home District with a conditional use overlay.
Matika Villa has 90 mobile home units and a density of about 2.3 units per acre.
In addition, Smith has purchased a former church property and proposes to use the buildings as a community center for his mobile home park.
Although he seeks the rezoning, Smith has said he has no immediate plans to expand Matika Villa.
In other agenda items, the Planning Board will:
– Revisit a preliminary subdivision plat for phases 4 and 5 of Forest Glen.
– Discuss changes to the Land Development Ordinance related to electronic signs for colleges and universities in the Institutional Campus district.
– Consider Land Development Ordinance text amendments, related to a Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance, the Historic Preservation Commission guidelines and the depth of lots in the Downtown Mixed Use District.