BURRILLVILLE – The Burrillville Planning Board has approved a preliminary plan for a three-lot subdivision on Gazza Road on a currently vacant 28.5-acre lot owned by Narragansett Improvement Company.
Plans presented at a meeting of the board on Monday, March 3 show the development will feature three, four-bedroom single family homes, each situated on roughly three acres.
The remaining 20 acres of the lot will be merged with an abutting 125 acre parcel also owned by Narragansett Improvement, which extends into neighboring Glocester.
“They want to create three buildable lots,” explained Town Planner Ray Goff.
A design plan submitted in November by Kelly Land Services, Inc. of Tiverton notes that all three homes will be accessed via Gazza Road in an area just by the intersection with Peach Orchard Road. Located near the Chepachet River, the lot includes 120,000-square-feet in an aquifer overlay district and plans allow for adequate buffer from the river, as well as from a vernal pool and forested swamp area.
The company runs a gravel pit on the larger, two-town abutting lot that will now include 73 acres in Burrillville – up from 53 prior to the recent merge completed as part of the subdivision project.
“They still take material out of there,” Goff said of the excavation, noting that he does not believe the new acreage will be subject to mining due to the presence of wetlands.
A survey showed pavement encroachment from Gazza Road onto some of the privately-owned lot, and that section was deeded to the town as part of the request.
The preliminary plan was approved unanimously with review of the final plan to be conducted administratively.
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