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Originally Posted by HSVTiger
Glad this was booted, Huntsville's crown jewels are the mountains that
are intertwined with the city. Every time a crappy (albeit expensive)
home is built on a slope somewhere it tarnishes that crown a little bit.
Green Mountain subdivision plan dropped
The developer of a controversial 195-lot subdivision on Huntsville’s Green Mountain has withdrawn his rezoning request which would allow a higher density mix of homes.
The issue was scheduled to be on Thursday night’s agenda of the Huntsville City Council. Jerry Cargile with 4Site Inc. of Huntsville, sent city planners a letter requesting the rezoning request by his client be pulled from the agenda.
Mountain residents vehemently protested the plan, saying the proposed Inspiration Point on Green Mountain development would create traffic, environmental and drainage problems and destroy the character of their community.
Love Development, a partner with a California-based development owners group, wanted to transform the 127-acre tract into a development of single family houses and townhomes.
--John Peck HSV Times
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and this isn't dead either, being revised
"The construction reprieve may be short-lived, however. Chuck Gibb, who led the rezoning fight for the Green Mountain Civic League, said developers are pursuing the project under the existing zoning.
"We're looking forward to working with them on creating an appropriate development for Green Mountain," Gibb said Tuesday.
Love Development of Toney, a partner with a California-based owners group, stirred mountain residents with a proposal to transform a 127-acre tract near the popular Inspiration Point bluff into a development of 160 single family homes and 35 townhomes. The 5 to 4 rezoning approval by the City Planning Commission in February sent the issue to the City Council for a final vote Thursday.
Mountain residents argued the rezoning would result in a too-dense mix of homes, creating greater traffic and drainage problems and destroying the character of their community.
"We're not opposing development. We're hoping to see development continue as low density and consistent with preserving the natural setting and environment of Green Mountain," Gibb said Tuesday.
Developers told planners in February that leaving the zoning as is would allow 182 single family residences, just 13 fewer than what is planned in the mixed-use plan.
Gibb said mountain residents would still oppose that many homes."
HSV Times