A developer wants to bring dozens of new homes to Davenport but some neighbors in that area want a say in those plans.  

Jersey Meadows is a subdivision east of Jersey Ridge Road and North of 53rd Street. 

City council members are considering a new subdivision called Pheasant Creek that would be built between Jersey Meadows and the new Costco. 

About 20 neighbors just on Julie Lane Court oppose the current plan to build Pheasant Creek.

Just a few streets over on East 58th Street about 20 neighbors say the current plan is the best option on the table right now.

Neither group of neighbors has a problem with welcoming new neighbors. 
But they do have some concerns about adding 64 homes to the area. 

“We’ve estimated there would be a 42% increase in traffic load in our neighborhood,” says Joel Mohr. 

And there’s division over how to deal with those extra drivers. 

“We have two access points right now, which is roughly 75-76 homes to an access point,” explains Gary Aitchison.

“Add 64 [homes] over here, now we’re at 214 homes and still only two access points? Now we’re well over 100 homes to an access point and that doesn’t seem like it computes,” Aitchison says. 

Aitchison has lived in the neighborhood for 12 years. 
He and Mohr want a third way out of the neighborhood, a road that runs from Elmore Avenue through Pheasant Creek and East 58th Street out onto Jersey Ridge Road. 

They say that will alleviate traffic inside Jersey Meadows.  

“All we want to say is it doesn’t make sense to have it all flow through our existing neighborhood,” says Aitchison. 

Brian Carber has lived in Jersey Meadows for 13 years and shares those worries. 

“I have the same concerns, I don’t like the fact that there’s going to be more traffic through here,” he says.  

But Carber says adding a road to Elmore Avenue would only make his street, East 58th, even busier. 

“That’s a lot of cars to potentially drive to Starbucks, drive to other restaurants that are over there, drive to Walmart, drive whatever is over there,” says Carber. 

Carber and 19 other neighbors say sticking with the current plan is the lesser of two evils. 
It would mean more traffic from the new homes, but keep traffic from Elmore Avenue out. 

“I’m looking for the best alternative and the best alternative to me is not a through street to Elmore,” Carber says. 

Carber, Mohr and Aitchison spoke up at Wednesday nights Committee of the Whole meeting.

It was the first of six meetings until final plans for the subdivision are approved.