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A Medford builder is seeking preliminary approval to build 19 homes on nearly 26 acres of mostly wooded property between Elbo Lane and Cemetery Road in Mount Laurel.
MiPro Homes LLC is scheduled to appear before the Township Planning Board next week to seek approval for a preliminary major subdivision on the 249 Elbo Lane property, which for decades had been used for agriculture until around 2006.
The meeting on Thursday, August 8 begins at 6 p.m. Details on how to join the Zoom meeting and information on the MiPro project are here.
Plans filed with Mount Laurel show a large swath of trees would be cleared on the Cemetery Road end of the project. Township professionals, in reviewing the plan, asked the developer for more tree removal information.
Cul-de-sacs would be on either end of the property with the middle undeveloped. Two homes not on a cul-de-sac would face Cemetery Road.Â
Developer's application to the Mount Laurel Planning Board
The development would be built on each end of the property — near Cemetery Road and near Elbo Lane — and the middle of the property, with acres of wetlands, would remain undeveloped, according to the plans.
One cul-de-sac, called "Whispering Court" in the plans, would have 10 homes and connect to Elbo Lane. The other cul-de-sac, called "Whispering Lane," would have seven homes and connect to Cemetery Road. Two additional homes not on a cul-de-sac would front on Cemetery Road.
Besides preliminary subdivision approval, MiPro Homes also seeks a design waiver because Whispering Court would be 674 feet in length, when Township regulations call for a maximum length of 600 feet.
The older of two houses on the property. Each would be demolished.
Developer's application to the Mount Laurel Planning Board | TTI Environmental Inc., Moorestown
The property owner is the estate of Richard M. Foley. He purchased it with Ida R. Foley in 1959, according to property records. The records go back to 1889, showing a sale of the land that year. Two existing homes on the land would be demolished.
TTI Environmental Inc. of Moorestown, working for developer MiPro, sampled soil on the land and found no pesticides that need to be removed.
MiPro Homes, which is affiliated with Procaccci Homes, is owned by Michael Procacci Jr. and Elaine Procacci. The company has built several developments in South Jersey including one on Kresson Road in Cherry Hill that angered neighbors when trees on the site were clear-cut.
