The township would need to add four-unit townhouses as a conditional use.

Sean Gallagher, planning commission solicitor, said the Culver property won't have a reason for a conditional use hearing if what is proposed isn't a conditional use for RAL. Property developers could receive special approval for the townhouses via a conditional use hearing. “This has been floating out there for a number of years.” “This subject (with) the RAL has come up before,” Peaco said. This isn't a new problem, according to township manager Gary Peaco. Four-unit townhouses are also allowed as a permitted use in Adams Townships's residential agricultural moderate density (RAM) zone, but not RAL.

Townhouses are permitted on the Middlesex side of the development. Although they have the same density, townhouses are considered more “city” looking. While quad housing units are allowed, four-unit townhouses are not permitted. However, that part of Adams is zoned residential agricultural low density (RAL).

The majority of the Culver property is in Middlesex as well as its only access road, but 12 townhouse units would spill over onto about four acres in Adams. Half of Sienna Village received final approval in March. The plan, which includes 65 housing units on about 28 square acres, got preliminary approval from Middlesex Township in February. It would sit south of Route 228 next to Sienna Village, a mixed use townhouse/retail development that will be built at the Route 228-Weatherburn Drive intersection. The Culver property originally came before the planning commission in February. “Part of the development resides in Adams Township,” said Martin McKinney, planning commission chairman, at Monday night's work session. ADAMS TWP - Adams Planning Commission is looking at zoning standards following the first peeks at the Culver property, a residential development expected to cross the Middlesex Township border.

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