At its meeting on Wednesday, March 5, the Milan Planning Board approved the subdivision of 400 acres of land belonging to Stefano Ferrari into four lots.
Ferrari has a house at 148 Rowe Road, where he also keeps horses. He has owned the property since 2001, and said that having smaller lots makes it “more practical” for future planning — whether that be to sell parcels more easily or to pass down segments of it to his children.
The new lot lines fall around the boundaries of Route 199 and Rowe Road, making them what the board refers to as “natural subdivisions.”
The proposed subdivisions also eliminate what is known as a land hook, which can be created when a continuous lot broken by an existing boundary such as a road, are treated as one lot. The subdivisions parcel his land south of Route 199 into its own lot, as well as east and west of Rowe Road. The fourth lot, where Ferrari’s house stands, is created out of the changed lot lines around it.
The board noted that each plot would be given its own tax ID number and be subject to separate taxation.
The next Planning Board meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on April 2.