By Craig Westcott
Developers anxious to build houses off Garden Road in Seal Cove are going to have to wait a little longer before the Town of CBS is ready to assess the applications.
That’s because the Town is itself waiting on a storm water study on Billy Brook, a stream running from Little Indian Pond to Seal Cove Pond. It crosses Garden Road between Woodview Place and Morgans Road. There is a lot of land on back of Garden Road going towards the western half of Seal Cove Road that could potentially be developed if the area is ever deemed suitable for building.
The latest application to come before council was for a single-family dwelling at 152 Garden Road.
Ward 3 councillor Gerard Tilley, who chairs council’s planning committee, told his colleagues at the last public council meeting that his committee was recommending that a decision on the application be deferred for now.
“We’ve received multiple applications for development in this area,” Tilley noted. “We’d be doing ourselves an injustice if we made any decisions or recommendations prior to having that report in our hands. So, we just have to defer it for now.”
Ward 4 representative Melissa Hardy, who represents Seal Cove, added there have been many discussions about flood zones in the area, so a consultant has been asked to review it to help the Town figure out how to address them.
“We’re hoping to have the report in the coming weeks,” Hardy said.
“It’s prudent to have that,” agreed Mayor Darrin Bent.
