Commissioners voted 5-1 to amend zoning for the former Wedgewood Golf Course, swapping many of the apartments for townhomes and adding a second access point for drivers. Commissioner Guy LaLonde Jr. dissented.
The approval followed almost three hours of discussion during which 15 area residents expressed concerns about traffic, drainage, landscape maintenance, building heights, and property values.
Scott House, owner of SJD Development, said many of the problems pre-dated his acquisition of the property in 2021 and can only be solved with “lots of excavation” when construction begins. But he acknowledged that he should have hired a professional landscape group sooner…