(KNSI) – The Cold Spring City Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday evening on whether to greenlight development for a new single-family neighborhood.
Spartan Fields would feature 46 homes across 11.24 acres off County Road 2. The development would be just north of the ROCORI Public Schools campus. The plan is to build it up in stages. Phase 1 would begin this spring, with Phase 2 set for 2027 and Phase 3 two years after that. The pace could be faster or slower depending on how lot sales are going. Each home would sit on about a quarter-acre.
The developer has yet to decide which layout and exterior design styles they intend to use. They have already committed to creating a homeowners’ association to maintain the roughly 5 acres of common area spread throughout the neighborhood. The neighborhood will need a Planned Unit Development from the council to move forward.
The second major item on the agenda for the council is to approve a cost-sharing agreement with Rockville for improvements at the wastewater treatment plant. Cold Spring has handled sewage waste for Rockville since 2003. Rockville is guaranteed the ability to send 271,000 gallons in sewage to the plant each day, or about 25% of capacity.
Cold Spring is spending over $52 million to upgrade the facility. Cold Spring and Rockville are responsible for $37,460,000 of that, and the new agreement would split it based on the existing capacity arrangement. Rockville would be on the hook for 24.6%, or $9,233,099.
The meeting will gavel in at 5:00 p.m.
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