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Hearing tonight on Coke property rezoning

The Gloucester County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on an application to convert a proposed Planned Unit Development to another zoning designation at 7:30 tonight in the colonial courthouse.

Planner Sean McNash said that Timberneck, LLC, the owner of the property at Coke, has filed an application to amend the Gloucester County Zoning Map to reclassify approximately 645 acres from PUD-1 (Planned Unit Development District) to SC-1 (Suburban Countryside). The property is located in the York Magisterial District at the end of Borden Road.

Following the recommendation of the planning commission, the Gloucester Board of Supervisors voted May 5, 2008 to approve the PUD. Since then, little has been developed on that site, McNash said, with only a road, gatehouse and a dock being built. The property was never subdivided into home lots.

The only house on the property is the historic Catlett house, McNash said, and no other houses have been built. He said the PUD might not hav...

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