Franklin Lakes November 19, 2014 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 3 Public hearing on golf course development case begins by Frank J. McMahon The Franklin Lakes Planning Board has begun the public hearing on the Toll Brothers, Inc. application for a housing development on the 131-acre High Mountain Golf Club property. The site is located on the west side of Ewing Avenue in southeastern portion of the borough along the bound- ary with Wyckoff, and it would be accessed from both Ewing Avenue and Franklin Lake Road. It is bordered on the east by single-family homes along Charnwood Drive in Wyckoff and to the south by the Franklin Lakes Nature Preserve and the Borough of North Haledon. Mark Mayhew, the professional engineer for Toll Broth- ers, provided an overview of the site plan for the develop- ment, explaining that the plans call for the construction of a total of 275 detached and attached housing units, includ- ing 220 market rate and 55 affordable housing units. The 220 market housing units would consist of 60 single-family detached homes and 160 single-family attached town- homes. Mayhew also pointed out there would be a 4,500 square foot clubhouse with a pool and two tennis courts, and the site would contain five open space lots. He said the roads in the development would all have standard 30 foot cartways except for a 28-foot wide cul-de-sac to four homes and the 24-foot wide road in the townhouse area. According the Mayhew, the site would have sewers and all public utilities and the streets on the roadways would have trees 40 to 60 feet apart, shade trees in the parking lots, and vegetation to form a buffer between the townhouses and the single-family homes, and landscaping throughout the site and around the clubhouse. Mayhew described the drainage on the site, explain- ing there would be seven storm water management basins, including four ponds and three dry detention basins that would be maintained by a homeowners’ association that would charge a fee to the residents for that maintenance. The developer would retain a licensed site remediation professional (LSMP) to oversee environmental issues on the site. Borough Engineer Kevin Boswell explained that would be tantamount to having the New Jersey Depart- ment of Environmental Protection on site to execute the standards required. There is one potential variance required for the develop- ment that has to be determined. It is for the monument signs at the two accesses to the site, which the developer main- tains are signs, but the planning board has called walls. If the board determines that they are walls, a variance would be required. According to a summary of the findings in a fiscal impact study conducted by Toll Brothers, the single-family homes would have an average estimated sales price of $1.3 million and the 160 single-family attached townhomes would have an average anticipated sale price of $850,000. The 55 affordable housing condominiums would pro- vide the required mixture of one-, two-, and three-bedroom (continued on page 6)