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Timberneck property rezoning backed

The Gloucester County Planning Commission has recommended converting a proposed Planned Unit Development to another zoning designation.

Timberneck, LLC, the owner of the property at Coke, 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, planner Sean McNash said, with only a road, gate house 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 have been well received at that time because of tight economic conditions and the strict buildi...

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