Carroll County’s Planning and Zoning Commission is reviewing the concept site development plan and traffic study for Reservoir Run Retirement Village, a proposed 72-unit, age-restricted townhouse community on the 20.6-acre “Beaty Property” along Bennett Road. The project, led by Long Meadow Park LLC with St. John Properties Inc. as developer and DDC, Inc. as surveyor, requires Planning Commission determinations on density, exterior design, and site layout before proceeding to a Board of Zoning Appeals conditional use hearing. The current plan includes publicly owned streets, internal sidewalks, street lighting, garages and driveways for each unit, and additional guest parking, with the design still being refined in response to Design and Architectural Review Committee feedback about monotonous elevations and step access for seniors. Traffic impact analysis for the broader Beaty Property has already been completed and updated to reflect a shift from standard single-family to age-restricted housing, reducing projected trip generation, but community concerns about traffic, connectivity, and drainage remain in the record. Because this is still in concept and technical review with key design elements, circulation, and architectural treatments under consideration, there is room for planning, design, engineering, accessibility, and community-engagement vendors to influence the project before final entitlements and downstream construction/procurements are locked in.

Project is in the Freedom designated growth and priority funding area, zoned R-20,000 with maximum 3...