Lewes Delaware 19958United States
With a 4-1 vote at its April 22 meeting, Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission granted preliminary approval to plans for a subdivision along Mulberry Knoll Road south of Route 24 between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach.
Developer MKR Land Investment LLC has plans for Scenic Manor, a 319-single-family-lot standard subdivision, on 166.8 acres on both sides of Mulberry Knoll Road, with 258 lots in the eastern section and 61 lots in the western section.
The parcel is a mix of farmland, woods and wetlands, and is bordered on the west by Dorman Branch and on the east by Arnell Creek. It contains 20 acres of tidal wetlands and 5 acres of non-tidal wetlands.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Twenty-five years ago, state transportation officials were exploring an idea to dualize Route 24 from the Route 113 intersection in Millsboro to the Route 1 intersection near Rehoboth Beach.
And just as with plans to dualize Route 404/9 from the Maryland line to the beaches, the idea was not met with much public support.
“There was major public opposition, so DelDOT abandoned the idea,” said Mark Luszcz, Delaware Department of Transportation deputy director of design.
However, he said, parts of the plan are coming to fruition on the east side of Love Creek bridge with the ongoing Route 24 widening project. East of the bridge, projects are designed to solve increasing traffic-capacity issues, but on the west side, projects are aimed at safety and operational improvements, not major capacity projects, he said.