{"id":13625,"date":"2016-04-15T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=13625"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:55:21","slug":"twenty-one-townhouses-proposed-for-west-elliott-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/twenty-one-townhouses-proposed-for-west-elliott-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one townhouses proposed for West Elliott Street"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There may be 21 new townhouses coming to the end of West Elliott Street. The proposal was before a joint meeting of Huntsville and the District of Muskoka\u2019s planning committees on April 13. The application would require approvals from both levels of government as condominiums and subdivisions get approval at the District of Muskoka level.<\/p>\n

The joint meeting was held to gather input from the public as well as the proponent, Superior Marble Works Ltd. and its agent.<\/p>\n

The proponent wants to build 21 townhouses on about 1.7 acres of land made up of two parcels – one on West Elliott Street and the other fronting on 167 Main Street West. The residential development would be accessed off West Elliott Street through a private road. It would require approvals for a common element condominium road, storm water management pond, common green space, and a visitor parking area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe townhouses will be approximately 1,275 square feet with second-storey balconies and will be connected to municipal water and sewer, and the townhouses will be free-hold town homes, meaning that the owners of the townhomes will actually own the land that they sit on,\u201d said District planner Scott Joyce.<\/p>\n

Additional information provided by the proponent\u2019s agent, planning consultant Lanny Dennis, stipulated that the two-storey townhouse development would include lots ranging from 1,750 square feet in size, up to 6,500 square feet, Each townhouse would also include its own attached garage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proposal covers only about 22 per cent of the land. The present zoning would allow about 40 per cent of lot coverage so we\u2019re about half of what would be allowed,\u201d said Dennis.<\/p>\n

The lands are currently vacant and surrounded by single detached residential homes to the east and commercial and mixed use development to the north; to the south are vacant lands that are designated residential in the Town\u2019s Official Plan, explained Joyce.<\/p>\n

According to the Town’s Manager of Planning Services Kristin Maxwell, the development would have to adhere to the following zoning stipulations, all of which would apply to the interior of the development:<\/p>\n