From the Citizens for the Preservation of Pike Creek Valley:
Developer The Onix Group has proposed a plan to build 224 housing units on the former Three Little Bakers golf course property. Currently, the Pike Creek deed restrictions would only allow approximately 60 housing units to be built on that property. In order for The Onix Group to have their plan approved, New Castle County Council would have to vote to amend the Pike Creek deed restrictions. If the deed restrictions are not amended, The Onix Group would be limited to building approximately 60 housing units on the former Three Little Bakers property.
The New Castle County Planning Board is holding a Public Hearing on December 4th to consider the development proposal for the former Three Little Bakers golf course property. The developer is submitting a plan to build 224 units on the property, and the Planning Board must vote to lift the current deed restrictions - limiting to 60 units - in order for the plan to be approved. The Planning Board accepts public comment from residents, and a show of solidarity from attending residents will send a message that we do not want these deed restrictions to be lifted.
The Public Hearing will be held on:From the Pike Creek Valley Civic League:
Tuesday, December 4th at 7pm
Multi-Purpose Room, Gilliam Building
77 Reads Way
New Castle, DE 19720
Terraces at Pike Creek revised Plans
Pike Creek Recreational LLC / Onix submitted a revision to their 2010 Plan. Since it was not a "new" Plan there was no public notice.
- As way of background: The County took the developer to court to determine if the existing deed restrictions are enforceable, and the Court decided that they are. The County has been in Chancery Court, Superior Court and the State Supreme Court. The lower court opined, and the Supreme Court affirmed, that the deed restrictions call for 130 acres of the golf course land to remain as mandatory OPEN SPACE. It must remain open in quantity, quality, configuration, and contiguity. The balance of the golf course land is in a “court stay” until the developer completes the process of working with the community and taking any proposed plan through the County land use process.
- Last year the Onix group did their public presentation at Dickinson HS - the "sales pitch" if you will on what they propose to do to the former TLB property Whatever they proposed has to to be approved by the New Castle County Council first. The meeting was a joke - not a public forum or discussion, just a sales pitch. The result of that was the meeting the citizens held in February to ask questions, express concerns, etc. Onix was not happy with that meeting, nor were they present, and asked that the project get put on hold until after the November election cycle since they didn't want what happened to the golf course to be a political issue (never mind the fate of the course lies in County Council's vote - a political body!).
Fast forward to now. This is the SAME presentation, SAME proposal Onix gave the public last year. It is what they want to do to the property - BUT in order for them to move forward, they have to get the County to lift the existing deed restrictions on the property. The proposal first goes to the Planning Board for a recommendation (December meeting) and then to County Council for a vote.
We are simply trying to gather the VOICE of the community to let Planning Board and County Council know that the neighbors are not in favor of lifting the deed restrictions to allow 224 housing units to be built.
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