Amendment to the Community Village Zone and amendment to the Development Rights and Responsibilities (DRRA) now allows utility sheds up to 120 square feet for single-family homes. Sheds will still not be allowed on townhome lots.

At its March workshop the Town Council opted to pursue regulatory changes that would allow utility sheds in Community Village developments, specifically for Meade’s Crossing, under certain circumstances. In addition to allowing sheds, the change designates that the development’s Homeowners Association (HOA) as having the regulatory power to govern the specifications, which they determine to be allowable.

The Community Village Zone ordinance was modified by adding language to the effect that sheds were not allowed "unless otherwise specified in a development rights and responsibilities agreement adopted and applying to the applicable parcel" to that section.

The council decided to find a means of allowing sheds in a Community Village, as a result of a request presented by Steve Smith, representing Meade’s Crossing, who was seeking a means that would allow sheds to be constructed on single-family home-properties within the development.

Smith had noted that, while the HOA provides for lawn care for the townhomes present, it does not provide the same for the single-family home, resulting in those in single-family homes having to store their lawn care and other outdoor accessories out-of-doors.

Smith was subsequently joined by other development residents requesting a change to the ordinance, according to Councilman Joe Vigliotti.

Councilman LeRoy Hand was not in favor of the shed allowance and defended the initial Community Village standards saying the allowance of sheds up to 120 square feet would take away from the original vision of the neighborhood and its focus on local control. While regular neighborhoods have larger parcels and thus easier to have sheds, Hand said the land parcel shapes and topography at Meade’s Crossing were not conclusive to sheds.

Mayor Bradley Wantz agreed saying it had been initially stated up front that the development homes were not permitted sheds. While an HOA can create regulations which are stricter than that of town regulations, an HOA cannot generate rules that are less strict than the towns, or which contradict a municipal regulation, according to Mayor Bradley Wantz.