It’s been a long and bumpy road filled with numerous offers, proposals, plans, meetings and hearings that ultimately, resulted in nothing happening – until now.

Last week, the Oxford Village Planning Commission voted 7-0 to approve a site plan for the Sterling Heights-based Clearview Homes, LLC that will allow the developer to build 16 single-family homes at 98 S. Glapsie St., a former industrial site.

Speaking on behalf of Clearview Homes, Jim Sharpe, president of the Oxford-based Sharpe Engineering, noted that unlike previous proposals for the 3.582-acre site, this plan requires no planned unit development (PUD) agreement or public hearings.

“It’s pretty cut-and-dried,” he said. “We’re meeting the zoning. We’re meeting all of the ordinance requirements, all of the setback requirements and so forth.”

The property is zoned for R-1 single-family residential use. R-1 zoning requires lots to have a minimum area of 7,200 square feet and a minimum width of 60 feet.

In his May 9 review letter, village Planner Chris Khorey, of the Northville-based McKenna Associates, wrote “all” of the proposed lots exceed the minimum size and width.

The approved site plan shows a single street – the proposed name is Scripter Court – that will run east-west through the small development and dead-end in a hammerhead (or T-shaped) turnaround. There will be a 5-foot-wide sidewalk along both sides of the street. Nine homes will be located on the north side of the street and seven homes on the south side.

Lisa Shackleton, land acquisition analyst for Clearview Homes, told commissioners the houses will range from 2,300 to 2,800 square feet and have two-vehicle garages. She said the prices will probably start at $280,000 and go up from there, depending on options selected by buyers.

To separate the development from the village’s Department of Public Works and municipal water facilities, Clearview Homes will construct a 6-foot-high vinyl fence behind the seven southern lots.

Commissioner Jack Curtis, who also serves as a trustee on the Oxford Township Board, expressed his concern about trash and debris from the future construction site potentially littering surrounding properties such as the village’s Scripter Park and Round Lake. He explained the township has had issues with trash from Clearview Homes’ construction sites in Waterstone ending up in neighboring yards.

“The garbage is blowing all over,” Curtis said.

As a result of Curtis’ comments, the site plan approval included a condition that all debris from demolition and construction at 98 S. Glaspie St. must be “contained within the site and removed promptly.”

Commissioner Russell Gill wished to ensure that any debris hauled away from the site is transported south on Glaspie St., not north, so as to avoid going through the village proper. This, too, was included as a condition of site plan approval.

Clearview is going to install a new storm sewer pipe and filter system that will remove sediment and silt from 98 S. Glaspie St.’s stormwater runoff and allow it to drain into wetlands located to the north.

“This arrangement will avoid water draining into Round Lake, which is an important priority,” Khorey wrote in his review letter.

Oxford Village has owned 98 S. Glaspie St. since March 2006 when it purchased the property for $700,000. The village has been trying to sell the property since November 2012 when residents voted 1,069-to-521 to grant the municipality the authority to do so. In late January, the village council agreed to sell the property to Clearview Homes. A $305,000 purchase agreement was approved in a 5-0 vote.

As a result of Curtis’ comments, the site plan approval included a condition that all debris from demolition and construction at 98 S. Glaspie St. must be “contained within the site and removed promptly.”

Commissioner Russell Gill wished to ensure that any debris hauled away from the site is transported south on Glaspie St., not north, so as to avoid going through the village proper. This, too, was included as a condition of site plan approval.

Clearview is going to install a new storm sewer pipe and filter system that will remove sediment and silt from 98 S. Glaspie St’s stormwater runoff and allow it to drain into wetlands located to the north.

“This arrangement will avoid water draining into Round Lake, which is an important priority,” Khorey wrote in his review letter.

Oxford Village has owned 98 S. Glaspie St. since March 2006 when it purchased the property for $700,000. The village has been trying to sell the property since November 2012 when residents voted 1,069-to-521 to grant the municipality the authority to do so. In late January, the village council agreed to sell the property to Clearview Homes. A $305,000 purchase agreement was approved in a 5-0 vote.