Although no plans have been filed with Radnor Township, word is getting around that a developer has set his sights on the Wayne property of the late Dorrance “Dodo” Hamilton, one of the Main Line’s iconic grande dames. Radnor Township Board of Commissioners President Jack Larkin has written about the pending development at Eagle and Strafford roads in his newsletters to residents. “The developer has shown me two concept sketches for the lots; the first is purportedly a by-right plan and includes approximately 40 homes,” Larkin wrote in his newsletter. He called that first option “unattractive” because it lacks adequate space for buffers, open space and stormwater recharge areas. The second plan, which would require conditional use approval by the township, would put approximately 41 town homes on the western lot, and nine single-family dwellings onto the eastern lot.
“Because the homes on the western lot are town homes, they leave a lot of space for the things that are absent in the by-right plan: stormwater management, sidewalks, buffers and open space,” Larkin wrote. “The density is problematic for me, but with that in mind, it is a good plan.” Larkin announced that the township will facilitate a meeting between the residents living in the vicinity of the Hamilton Property and the proposed developer of that site on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. at the township building.
Source: Daily Times; 1/14/2020
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