Council approves Fox Haven subdivision

Another five houses could soon be springing up next door to the Meadow Lakes Golf Course after city council voted Monday evening to approve the subdivision for five more country residential lots at Fox Haven Estates.

Another five houses could soon be springing up next door to the Meadow Lakes Golf Course after city council voted Monday evening to approve the subdivision for five more country residential lots at Fox Haven Estates.

The land for the additional lots went through amendments under the Official Community Plan and zoning bylaw earlier this year, bringing it to the subdivision phase to add the five lots along with a park.

The new lots will fall under the same restrictions the other lots at Fox Haven fall under, including:

- only single-detached housing be permitted as a principal use;

- only accessory buildings/structures and minor home-based businesses be permitted as secondary uses;

- urban residential requirements of the Animal Control Bylaw apply to the properties in Fox Haven Estates; and

- the minimum gross floor area of homes 160 square metres above the grade measured at the wall next to the front yard, with the minimum ground floor area for single-storey dwellings being 120 square metres.

While council voted unanimously to allow the subdivision of the 2.9-hectare of land to go ahead for the five residential properties and park, it attached two conditions requiring:

- development cost charges totalling $6,250 at $1,250 for each residential lot be paid to the city; and

- the city’s Public Use Land Dedication (which requires 10 per cent or cash in lieu for each subdivision) be taken in the form of the 0.29-hectare park on the subdivision.