What’s the Solution?

This parcel can still be developed.

It can be developed with its existing R-2 single family zoning. That may not be quite as profitable for Pulte Homes, but let’s please remember what our obligations (and the County’s obligations) are to Pulte Homes: Nothing.

Pulte Homes would like to build and sell 84 homes as quickly as possible, and then move on to their next project without looking back. They don’t care about the traffic generated, they don’t care about the physical damage to Purnell Road by their vehicles, and they don’t care about reduced values of neighboring homes.

There’s also another option available. The owner of the parcel can make available for sale a sliver of access to Roosevelt Road to allow ingress and egress to the north which would ease the impact on Purnell Road. This area of Roosevelt Road is already planned for improvements, so an entrance coordinated with this effort could be effectively planned. Now that might not be the first choice of the seller. But it certainly IS a viable option, and one that we can only hope will be considered if the zoning variance is denied by the Development Committee in addition to the Zoning Board of Appeals.