The Plan Commission has asked Joe Keim Builders to restructure its proposed Peck Farm subdivision at the northeast corner of Peck and Kaneville Roads to reduce the length of long, straight streets within the subdivision.
City traffic engineer Bob Smith was concerned that the plan’s quarter-mile straight streets would encourage speeding. He suggested that indirect or looping traffic movement would improve the layout.
The developer has reduced the number of houses from 131 to 125 and has increased lot sizes to a minimum of 13,000 square feet to conform with the low-density residential land-use classification in the city’s land-use plan.
Public works director Tom Talsma told the commission that his department is withdrawing its earlier suggestion of reserving a 30-acre portion of the proposed 66-acre subdivision for a future water-treatment and filtration facility. Talsma explained that the joint feasibility study with the City of Batavia as well as the other procedures necessary to move ahead with a water-treatment facility in that location would take a year to 18 months. With the active development on the west sides of both cities and Keim’s time frame, city staff decided to look elsewhere for a suitable water-treatment site.
