CLNCC Monthly Meeting
7 p.m. Tuesday, October 19th
ZOOM Program
Civic League for New Castle County Zoom Meeting
Time: Oct 19, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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CLNCC Position on Ordinance 21-036 delivered to the NCC Planning Board
ATTN: Chairperson Karen Peterson and Members of the NCC Planning Board
c/o New Castle County Department of Land Use
87 Reads Way New Castle, DE 19720
Dear public officials and staff,
I write on behalf of the Civic League for New Castle County. Please know we stand opposed to the Council-sponsored NCC Department of Land Use Ordinance 21-036 .
CLNCC POSITION: Any policy amendment to the 2012 Comp Plan should be done appropriately through the 2022 Comprehensive Plan Update currently underway.
We question why the county would want to incorporate their recent set of subregional masterplan workshop guideline drafts into the decade old 2012 NCC Comprehensive Plan half way through the current 2022 Comprehensive Plan Update (CPU), (NCC2050).
Could one reason be to give legal cover to the secret and private TDR deals that have guaranteed Mr. Capano a public sewer for his two Back Creek properties?
The 2012 NCC Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map shows the Capano Carter Farm parcel new TDR development proposal as a "New Community Development Area" but it shows the second parcel does not comply with future growth investments. The Capano County Club Estate new TDR development proposal parcel is labeled in the 2012 CPU for "Low Density.."
Is the motivation of the county in pushing their Ord. 21-036 into the old CPU to retroactively place the second of two Capano properties into the CURRENT existing Furture Growth Map? Is that not corrupt?
Did the residents of this area get a fair shake at contributing to the Southern New Castle County Master Plan (SNCCMP) when that series of workshops were advertized as planning for creation of guidance documents not as actual Comp Plan Update documents? THESE WERE NOT COMP PLAN MEETINGS. The public deserves separate COMP PLAN PUBLIC HEARINGS for the subregional plans.
Additionally, the original SNCCMP DRAFT was issued in December 2019. David Carter submitted twenty pages of comment, questions, and concerns that the county has barely addressed. I would encourage members to review those comments in detail.
Also, in December 2019 the first of the three Port Penn area secret TDR deals was signed off on by NCC CE Matt Meyer. Are we looking at a justification of the secret provision for a free public sewer to Mr. Capano in the West Wing in the county's push for Ord. 21-036 for the reasons noted above?
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I attended the Planning Board hearing for Ord. 21-036 which started and ended very late into the evening when many if not most of the people thinking of making public comment had tuned out.
I appreciate your kind attention today.
Nancy Willing
VP CLNCC
5 Francis Circle, Newark, DE 19711
