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BOOK 10'/ FAGE 671 addressed by ordinance. Yet that is exactly what happen, as the minutes make dear. A copy of the miantes are attached for your review as Exhibit B. flunilY sAt the public on the approval of the plat, the residents of Colonial Terrace, a single. n, objected to the platting of Colonial $eights for muhi�'amily use. The Colonial Terrace residents felt that their drinking water might be adversely unp�ed by �_ development on a septic system is Colonial Heights. iivaily While that concern was invalid at the time, because your ordinances addressed it at the time, It is even more inappropruft thy_ I enclose as Exhibit C. a sketch which shows Colonial Heights Subdivision and also Colonial Terrace immediately to the West Your staff will confirm that every Colonial Terrace residence adjacent to Colonial Fleiglrts is connected to and currently rently using coin, water. Further, the Colonial Terrace residents themselves are on a septic system. It is luthedicrous to think that a septic system in Colonial liaghts would affect the dr� water Colonial Terrace homes, which am on the county water system, when the Colonial Terrace homes themselves arc on a septic system. Thar own septic systems are much doser to their Of Colonial Heights could ever be.drinl[ing water than those Sybil Investments Partnership, Ltd., is the enterprise of the Heran family, which has worked diligently over the last 9 years to improve its other holdings in Colonial Heights. One Heran family metriber, Dean, lives directly across the sorest from the subject lots. The He= family phuts to build 11611 9uafty, 3 bedroom 2 bath homes m a triplex attangemeat on the subject lots, Most of the lots are in excess of 200 feet deep. The current zoning, RM61 pen this type of construction, and a site plan has already leen submitted for approvaL The processing of the site plan is being held up Pending this board's revocation of the plat restriction. A copy of the preliminary site plan is attached for your review as Exhibit D. Please note that Colonial Terrace and Colonial Heights will have sbetignificant as long as the plat restriction is lifted. That is because the County ordinances require an but they iv notrequire buffer between �-�Y development and g°BI'-�Y development, to develop �8 between 2 singe -fan* subdivisions. In fact, if these lots were already�°Y restidences, the developer could strip them of the vegetation which is CM the PmPefty, leaving no buffer Further, there is a tight of way betwem Colonial Heights and Colonial Terrace which was created, I believe, by the old drainage district At a nm,, this right of way is 15 fink and may be as much as 30 feet. This provides a distance the 2 tons+ and that any fears Colonial Terrace residents may h� j�ed, Finally, Colonial Heights ants between dee single_flunfly Colonial Terrace Subdivision to the west and commercially zoned property on Old Dixie E%hway to the east As a multi subdivision, Colonial Heights Subdivision acts as a buffer between the single-family project and the commWciaVmdgh*`aY Property to the east. This makes planning sense, as to Heigbts is allowed to develop as a multi- long as Colonial 20 to single -Y, when Proj It makes no sense to restrict lots 14 through would single -fa �Y have sat unused for 17 Years, because no reasonable person goods � ��y lot � �-family units is a muni -family Prof The lots are "damaged Pnfec dy suited for multi -family development We urge the Board of County Commissioners to schedule this matter for a resolution to revoke the resumer August restriction th that is n�opment of this property in accordance with the RM -6 zoning Possible, Please schedule it after September 5th. BRUCE BARIETT For Sybil Investment PartIIership Ltd /mjw Enclosures cc: Robert M Keating, AICP Charles Vnimac, County Attorney NOVEMBER 17, 1998 0 -56-