TC Quality Homes withdraws request

Township trustees also approved a budget for 2006.
By JEANNE STARMACK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
CANFIELD -- A developer who wanted a zone change for a controversial planned unit development in the township has withdrawn his request.
Chris Abraham of TC Quality Homes sent a letter to township officials indicating that he is withdrawing the plan for a PUD in the Westbury Park development off Gibson Road. The township zoning commission unanimously voted against the zone change Dec. 8 after an outcry from residents in the development. The issue was to go before the township trustees at their meeting Monday.
Township zoning inspector Dave Morrison told the township trustees that the developer said he wants to revise his plan and review it with the zoning panel.
Disgruntled residents
Abraham met with opposition from residents in the development who were upset that he planned to build smaller homes in the midst of theirs. Residents said they'd been led to believe their subdivision would have a certain character to it, and the smaller homes, or villas, on smaller lots would destroy that character and ruin their property values.
Abraham had originally presented Westbury Park to home buyers as a 140-lot single-residence plan with a PUD of about 50 homes next to it.
Residents didn't like the new plan, in which the larger homes surrounded the smaller ones.
In other business, trustees approved a temporary budget for 2006. Township Fiscal Officer Carmen Heasley said some accounting could change because of budget fluctuations before the end of 2005. But she and trustee Bill Reese said the temporary budget is close to final.
The total appropriation figure for 2006 is $3,546,176. The total appropriation figure for 2005 was $3,426,852.