Residents along Elrod Road near Jody Richards Elementary School will have to wait a while to formally express their opposition to another residential development in their neighborhood.

For a second time, developers withdrew from the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County agenda a rezoning application for the 85-acre Stagner Farms property that would clear the way for developing a large subdivision.

The application, which was slightly altered from a development plan that was withdrawn in December, was scheduled for a public hearing at Thursday’s planning commission meeting before being scratched from the agenda earlier this week.

“The application has been withdrawn,” said Chris Davenport, the attorney representing the Stagner Farms LLC and its registered agent, Michael Vitale.

The application to rezone the property from agriculture and floodplain to planned unit development and floodplain is being “tweaked,” Davenport said, but it’s evident from the application that some tweaking has already occurred.

An application to rezone the farmland surfaced last year and was brought to the planning commission by the Frank C. and Wilma J. S. Stagner Trust and the GVTP Developments LLC headed by Tim Poston and George Vogler.

That application, calling for developing as many as 300 single-family lots, was withdrawn before the planning commission’s Dec. 20 meeting.

The resurrected application, brought forth by Vitale and the Stagner Farms LLC that filed its articles of organization Dec. 21, calls for a maximum of 255 lots and homes of at least 1,400 square feet.

That slight reduction in density wasn’t enough to satisfy residents who took to social media to voice opposition to the development along the two-lane Elrod Road that is already home to the Pennyroyal Farms, Hidden River, Ivan Downs and Belle Haven subdivisions.

“My major concern is the additional traffic,” said Kathy Mitchell, who lives near the proposed Stagner Farms development. “There’s no way Elrod Road can handle additional traffic.”

A traffic impact study completed in November by the Kimley-Horn and Associates consulting firm seems to back up that assessment. The study’s conclusions identified the intersection of Elrod Road and Smallhouse Road as the greatest area of concern.

According to the study’s conclusions, “improvements are warranted (at the Elrod Road-Smallhouse Road intersection) even in the absence of the proposed development.”

“I can’t imagine adding that many units,” Mitchell said. “I’m all for development, but the number of units they’re going to put in is too much. Nobody out here is happy about it.”

Although Mitchell said she and some of her neighbors plan to express their objections if a public hearing is held on the development, she isn’t optimistic about stopping it.

“I’m sure it’ll happen,” she said.

“I do anticipate that it will come before the planning commission at some point,” Davenport said.

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