Quality Built Homes VP Rodney Gertz show the town planners the concept for Meadows at Town Run.
Leonardtown, MD — Leonardtown continues to be the hub for new residential development in St, Mary’s County. With Clark’s Run (335 units) now being developed and Leonard’s Grant (also 335 units) completed, the concept plan for a new 106-lot, single-family-home subdivision has been approved by the Leonardtown Planning and Zoning Commission.
The new subdivision called Meadows at Town Run is on the former Wathen Farm off Route 245 (Hollywood Road) directly across the street from the entrance to Leonard’s Grant, the new Captain Walter Francis Duke Elementary School and the proposed new library and senior center. Developer of the new project, Quality Built Homes (QBH), also developed Leonard’s Grant.
Some of the home designs in Leonard’s Grant will be transported to Meadows at Town Run. It will be a neo-traditional design like Leonard’s Grant, with garages to the rear of the homes. The major streets in the new development will have sidewalks, QBH VP Rodney Gertz told the planners at their Sept. 19 meeting. But some of the side streets will have open stormwater trenches in front as part of the development’s stormwater management system. Gertz said that was a more environmentally friendly way to go.
The development will have connections with an adjacent farm also owned by Quality Built Homes which could potentially be developed in the future, and another farm which they do not own and which has no plans for development.
The ideal would have been for an entrance to the new development directly opposite the Leonard’s Grant Parkway. But a row of a half dozen homes sits opposite that entrance, making a new entrance there impossible. Instead Gertz said the entrance to the new subdivision would be 300 feet to the north, less than the state’s guidelines of 750 feet between entrances. Gertz said the state is cognizant of the site restriction problems that caused the developer to choose that entrance.
The subdivision will have a gazebo, playground and play fields, and a natural pond. If the second farm is developed there would be a shared clubhouse and swimming pool.
“We are excited about doing another project with the town. We are very proud of Leonard’s Grant,” Gertz told the Planning and Zoning Commission. The commission unanimously approved the project’s concept plan.
Earlier in the meeting the planners approved several neo-traditional home designs for the next phase of Clark’s Run.
Contact Dick Myers at dick.myers@thebaynet.com