The site of the Centerton Road townhouses, in the yellow border, is about a half-mile from the Hartford Road intersection.
UPDATE: The developer requested that the application be moved to the July 11 meeting of the Planning Board.
D.R. Horton Inc., a Texas-based company widely ranked as America's largest homebuilder, is scheduled to go before the Moorestown Planning Board on Thursday to seek approval of 66 townhouses on Centerton Road next to the Burlington County Agricultural Center.
"The Enclave" development, on 17.64 acres of undeveloped agricultural land now owned by the Diocese of Trenton, would fulfill part of the Township's obligation for affordable housing. Horton's application states that 14 smaller townhouses would be designated as affordable and 52 as market-rate.
The townhouses would be between the Burlington County Agricultural Center and the Parkers Bend Retirement Community. The development would back up to Route 295.
Horton applied for preliminary and final site plan approvals. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in Town Hall, 111 West Second Street. The Township website has a copy of the meeting agenda and a packet that includes project plans.
"This site is part of the municipality's affordable housing plan and was added as part of the first revision to the settlement agreement between Moorestown and Fair Share Housing Center in the December 5, 2019 Housing Element and Fair Share Plan," the Township's affordable housing consultant, Brian M. Slaugh of Clarke Caton Hintz in Trenton wrote in a letter to the board.
Originally, the plan was to build 17 more townhouses, or 83 total, but New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection rules required a reduction, Slaugh wrote. Of the original 83 townhouses, 17 would have been designated as affordable.
The market-rate and affordable townhouses will have one driveway, on Centerton Road.
Horton's application shows that the market-rate townhouses are called the "Crofton" model, with four bedrooms, a two-car garage, basement storage and a rec room. The affordable units are the "Jefferson" model and would have two to three bedrooms and no garage or basement.
One driveway from the development's main road, to be called Leeds Way, would be on Centerton Road.
A traffic study for the developer by Nathan B. Mosley, an engineer with Shropshire Associates LLC of Atco, estimates that the development would add a total of 43 trips in the morning peak hour and 49 total peak late-afternoon trips.
"The traffic resulting from the proposed development will not affect the adjacent roadway network until 2026, when the development is expected to be fully built-out and occupied," Mosley wrote. "It can be expected that the traffic volumes along the adjacent roadway network will increase as a result of other developments in the area of the site and general area traffic growth."
Horton's application states that the landscaping plans include 223 deciduous trees, 379 evergreen trees, 202 ornamental trees, 798Â deciduous shrubs and 1,068 evergreen shrubs.
