“I think there should be a through street to help mitigate traffic and that would give everybody access to two lights,” he said.
Whilding said he was concerned about the potential increase in traffic near a bus stop in the Straight Arrow and Quill roads area.
“When you build this out, you’re sending all the traffic out to the light through that bus stop,” he said. “If you have two ways out, you really won’t send all the traffic through that one bus stop section outside Cinnamon Ridge.”
The council is expected to vote later this month on whether the proposed site plan will move to a second reading. The next council meeting is scheduled for Oct. 24.
The council tabled the issue a little over a month after the city planning commission recommended approval of the patio home development site plan on Sept. 7. The planning commission recommended approval of the site plan with a 4-0 vote. Beavercreek Planning Commission Chairman Michael Self recused himself from the case.
Proposed plans for the patio home development have drawn criticism from neighbors who have asked the city council and planning commission to reject the developer’s application to rezone 20-acres of land from agricultural to residential use. Residentssaid they were worried the proposed housing development would negatively impact traffic safety and home values.
Cinnamon Ridge condo owners were concerned about a potential increase in traffic at the intersection of Quill and Straight Arrow roads.
In addition to traffic concerns expressed by council members on Monday, a couple of residents asked how much of the wooded area would be eliminated as part of the housing development project.
“There’s a large portion of the wooded area that’s going to be dedicated, with this application, to the city to connect a park that we have on the south side to a nature reserve we have on the north side,” said Randy Burkett, a city planner. “So there’s a large, almost two acres, portion of woods that will be preserved with this application.”
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