Library Friends Concerned About Proposed Neighboring Big-Box Development
Owners of the property east of the library are once more proposing to build a large-scale store.
A controversial Bloomingdale Avenue property is once again in the spotlight. Redstone Properties LLC has returned to the county's Planning and Growth Management Department to request changes to its land use plan that would permit it to develop a big-box retail store. This is the third time the property owner has attempted to submit a plan to the county to develop big-box retail on the 43.5 acre pasture, which is zoned for Greenfield Traditional Neighborhood Design. This designation is similar to the zoning of the Winthrop Town Centre on Bloomingdale Avenue and Providence Road. Providing that the development meets certain traditional design standards, it allows the developer to build six units per acres of residential development and 500,…
Nikki Riggsbee
11:40 pm on Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This development will be ruinous for the neighborhood. With that much land being covered with concrete, inadequate drainage will produce flooding. Our property values will go down - after the hit we already took from the housing bubble disaster. The planned apartments will change the tenor of the neighborhood which is all single family homes and will overburden schools that are already overloaded… more ›