Onix Group

My name is Dean Pletz and I am the vice-president of real-estate for the Onix Group and also for Pike Creek Recreational Services LLC, the owner of the former 3 Little Bakers golf course property. With all due respect to Ms. Sturgeon, she has her facts wrong. To describe a two-year community outreach as bullying is unfair and not accurate. County residents deserve the facts. And, all of the information I am providing you today can be confirmed in the public record. It ...probably comes as no surprise that community out-reach has been strongly encouraged by New Castle County government and local civic groups for decades. To that end, we have worked very closely with immediate neighbors for two years now, a majority of whom ultimately voted to support the current compromise and related plan submitted to New Castle County. The two-year process included many sit-down meetings including lengthy discussions and heathy debates with our neighbors that lasted many hours at a time. The two-year process also included the creation of multiple concept plans and multiple development and engineering designs. All the working group members were volunteers from immediate neighborhoods and none of the working group members were chosen by us. And only those members that attended more than the first meeting held more than two years ago were invited to vote, (i.e., 13 of 14 members voted). Here are the facts about the proposed compromise - our proposed compromise includes: 150 acres of open space for use by our immediate neighbors (today the land is private and not open to public use); permanent and regular open space maintenance including an initial one million dollar open space endowment; 224 residential dwellings which is far below the remaining number permitted in the Deed Restrictions (454 dwellings permitted); no commercial or office development; millions of dollars in public infrastructure fees for schools, parks, libraries, police and other needed infrastructure; all required DelDOT and County roadway improvements; customized community landscaping; customized architectural renderings; and a modified drainage design to address not only new storm water run-off but also to help address existing drainage problems in the overall Pike Creek community today. Finally, the Delaware Supreme Court has not ruled that our property is limited to only 60 homes, and the Deed Restrictions do not limit development to only 60 homes. In fact, the Deed Restrictions provide for 5,454 homes in Pike Creek and only 5,000 homes have been built to date as confirmed by County records. This is one of the reasons why the community working group voted to support our compromise plan at only 224 dwellings. People who tell you otherwise are misinformed. Thank you for taking the time to read our post.

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