Developer hopes to build on Jerome Ave.

Friday, March 7, 2014 1:05 AM EST

By STEVE COLLINS STAFF WRITER

BRISTOL A developer hopes to create a 16-lot subdivision off Jerome Avenue.

David Rock, who has built many homes in the area over the years, hopes to put up 15 new colonials with a price tag of about $275,000 and to renovate a ranch-style house in an 8-acre parcel at 701 Jerome Ave.

Rock said the new houses in Sturbridge Estates would generally have three bedrooms and two-car garages.

The citys Planning Commission is eyeing the proposed subdivision in a hearing that will be continued at its March 26 meeting.

Planners appear to have few concerns about the project as a whole, but want to take a look at a few proposed lots within it to see if they provide enough of a backyard.

The developer also plans to make formal requests to waive a city requirement that he install dry sewer lines within the new subdivision, which is slated to rely on septic systems, and for the right to put sidewalks on only one side of the road that would weave through the neighborhood.

Rock said theres no reason to require the costly sewer pipes because the lot has the best soil for septic systems that hes seen in decades.

Tim Furey, a land use lawyer hired by Rock, said that putting a sidewalk on only one side of the road will leave more grass and require less concrete surfaces. More green is better, he said.

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