10-home development proposed in Dover
Proposal includes new road and sidewalk off Cataract Avenue
DOVER — A new single-family home development is being proposed for land off Cataract Avenue.
DRVP Developers LLC has filed paperwork with the city to build what it is calling the Porch Light Development, which is proposed to include 10-single-family homes.
The property site “is now vacant with no existing buildings and structures and is fully wooded,” according to paperwork filed on behalf of David Paolini, the principal of DRVP Developers LLC, by James Hayden of Berry Surveying and Engineering.
The site abuts the Bellamy River.
“The proposal is to construct a 24-foot wide private roadway off Cataract Avenue in order to provide access to the single-family homes,” Hayden said in the paperwork filed with the city.
The road is proposed to be 700 feet long and bordered by a five-foot wide raised sidewalk, which will provide “pedestrian access from Cataract Avenue to the proposed road, known as Porch Light Drive,” Hayden said.
The Porch Light Development is scheduled to be discussed at the city’s Planning Technical Review Committee on Thursday, Jan. 16.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and will be held in the first floor conference room in City Hall.
DRVP Developers LLC is the same company that has proposed building a mixed-use development off Route 155 on property where a Christmas tree farm is located. The city's Zoning Board of Adjustment in December voted to grant a variance for that project to allow the developer to build 12 single-family homes and 53 apartments as part of the mixed-use project.
Attorney Francis X. Bruton III, who represented Paolini at the previous board meeting, stressed both the single-family homes and apartments will be reasonably priced.
About half of the apartment units will be one-bedrooms while the rest will be two-bedroom units, with the one-bedroom rental rates starting at $1,000 a month and the two-bedrooms rates at $1,300 a month with heat and hot water included, Bruton said. The developer also plans to keep the single-family homes to no more than 1,400 square feet, which will give people an opportunity to get into the homes for less than $300,000, he said. The residential units, along with planned office and retail, is being proposed for a 9-acre property located at 239 Knox Marsh Road.