Issues with county-required traffic studies temporarily derailed the development of three subdivisions at Thursday’s meeting of the Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Commission.

The commission tabled three major subdivisions, after planning and zoning staff warned that there were major concerns with the required traffic studies that the developers have to submit.

“All three of the [developers] have requested to table the items so they can go back to their traffic engineer and have them re-look at that data,” Matthew Brown, director of the Planning and Zoning Department, said during the meeting.

Commission Chair Steven Pumphrey announced at the start of the meeting that the developers of Tealwood Estates, Mill Creek Subdivision, Phase I, and Gaineswood Subdivision all requested that their cases be tabled until the May meeting. Tealwood Estates is a 636-lot subdivision expected to be built over seven phases, Mill Creek is set to be 103 lots and Gaineswood is set to be 174 lots.

Brown said that the planning and zoning staff raised issues with the traffic studies the developers submitted to the department after residents asked questions about the studies. Traffic impact studies, which are required for subdivisions of 50 lots or more, look at how the increase in homes would impact the traffic in the area and recommends improvements to the roads, if needed. The study has to be reviewed and accepted by the Baldwin County Highway Department in order for a subdivision to move forward.