Neuroese Properties has filed four separate development applications to Mountain View County that would allow the consortium to create up to 671 country-residential lots on four quarter sections and extend the Olds Central Highlands Golf Course to the west.Three of the applications follow the Netook Crossing North concept plan approved by council in 2010 allowing for the creation of 431 residential lots and the fourth would provide land for the golf course expansion and up to 240 more residential lots, Greg Brown, the senior planning consultant for the project, told the Gazette Friday.Brown said the timing of the applications was due to council's apparent intent to change the Municipal Development Plan in the spring.ìWe're concerned that council will (pass) amendments in the MDP that would Ö virtually dictate policy that would amendî the Highway 2/27 Area Structure Plan, Brown said.ìIf that were to go forward, we want to make these applications under the current MDP. And we want to look at piped services at no cost at all to the county and no maintenance cost to the county,î he said.ìWe're wanting to make sure we're not caught in this transition. We still believe in the original vision that was provided for in bylaws (and) we'll be encouraging council to follow through on the vision that has been approved in the existing documents.îThe applications also include land identified in the concept plan for commercial-industrial development bordering Highway 27 and ìgenerousî amounts of parks and recreation space, Brown said.For the proposed country-residential lots, ìthe minimum lot size would be a quarter acre as per the ASP and the concept plan,î he said.ìIt's consistent with the approved conceptual scheme. It's following up on the next stage.îBrown said he expects the applications will get to the public hearing stage in the new year. Neuroese is developing a fiscal impact analysis and it should be completed in January, he said.About 75 people attended an information session on Netook Crossing held last Monday at the golf course.
