The illustrative site plan above shows Darby Station Section 3, for which the platting and final development plan were approved by Plain City Council Monday night. The development is located on just under 336 acres on Route 161.
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New phases of two residential developments, Madison Meadows and Darby Station, will move forward in Plain City.
Prior to appearing before council, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended the approval of the final plats and development plans for both residential developments.
The developers behind Madison Meadows Phase II intend to construct 225 homes on approximately 79.7 acres along Lafayette-Plain City Road.
“It is the intent of the applicant/developer to create a unified, high quality mixed-use residential development with a large park that will become the heart of the community,” developers wrote in the final development plan.
The neighborhood will have two subareas.
In Subarea A, which consists of 57.4 acres, there will be a maximum of 169 single-family detached homes.
Subarea B will instead have a maximum of 56 detached patio homes on 12.75 acres.
A 9.7 acre area on the southwest corner of the site, near the main entrance to the development, will be dedicated to the Village of Plain City to be used as recreational green space to be known as Kramer Park.
Darby Station Section 3 will be located on 335.83 acres east of the village’s historic core, north and south of Route 161.
“The community will provide for home types which will be attractive to residents in various stages of life, including but not limited to young professionals, families and empty nesters,” developers wrote in the final development plan.
The development will be split into six subareas.
Subareas A, B and C will have a maximum of 314, 67 and 53 detached single-family homes, respectively. The subareas total 235.9 acres.
Subarea D, which consists of 30.6 acres, will have a maximum of 88 clustered, detached condominiums, which will be marketed to empty nesters.
The fifth section, Subarea E, consists of 19.5 acres that will be developed in one of two ways.
The “flex area… will be put aside and undeveloped for a limited period of time in order to provide an opportunity for the Jonathan Alder Local School District to determine if it desires to purchase this portion of the zoning district for the purpose of constructing a school building in the future.”
If Jonathan Alder officials do not purchase the land from the developers within five years of the purchase of the land, a multi-family residential community will be created in that space.
In that case, a total of 230 units will be developed with either two-story townhomes, one-story flats or a mix of both.
Subarea F, which totals 49.8 acres, will be maintained as open space, whether it is held by the development’s homeowners association or a public entity. According to the final development plan, the land will be conveyed to a public entity for public use within 30 after the first final plat is approved, or the homeowners association will maintain it.
Council unanimously approved all four motions to approve the plats and development plans. Council members did not offer any public comments on the matters.