The owners of 12 acres at the center of much controversy along Sunnyside Road are asking the city of Warrenton to annex another 49 acres into the city, with plans for future development.
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The owners of 12 acres at the center of much controversy along Sunnyside Road are asking the city of Warrenton to annex another 49 acres into the city, with plans for future development.
Warrenton’s Board of Aldermen on Dec. 1 heard the petition from Keeven Family Partnership to annex a cluster of properties directly east of the 12 acres that are already planned for residential development. Nearby neighbors on Sunnyside Road unsuccessfully tried to block development of the smaller site in September.
With the new annexation petition, project engineer Bart Korman with Lewis and Bade said a larger development is the eventual plan.
“Some of that discussion was to have a more comprehensive plan ... and have more than one access point,” to the development area, Korman told the board of aldermen. He indicated that the intent for the area is to build a neighborhood of single family homes or possibly duplexes.
Part of the annexation area is a 20-acre chunk of the Country Lake Golf Course, which is also owned by the Keeven group. It was the last piece of the golf course outside city limits, after Warrenton agreed to annex the rest of the golf course in 2018.
Korman said that piece will give developers the ability to use the golf course’s access road as another entryway into the development area.
“That way there would be second access for a development in the future,” Korman commented.
The properties under consideration are currently zoned for agricultural use. If Warrenton aldermen agree to annex the land, the Keeven firm would have to initiate another round of public hearings to rezone the property for residential development.
Ward 3 Alderman Gary Miller commented that if Keeven Family Partnership does develop the area, it should aim for single family homes, rather than higher-density housing types.
Korman replied that any type of multi-family housing, such as duplexes, would have to go through an additional layer of approval from the city, so the board of aldermen would have a direct say in the matter.
There was no commentary from the public during the Dec. 1 hearing on the annexation, and no vote was taken.
