Tuesday’s Planning Commission meeting will include a rezoning request that would allow a developer to build 319 homes off White Marsh Road.

The 125-acre parcel was part of a previously proposed project, the Four Farms development, that was shot down by City Council in 2011.

Melissa Venable of Land Planning Solutions said the current proposal is much smaller than the Four Farms project would have been. The land under the current proposal is the only piece that the developer, South Suffolk Properties LLC, already owned when it proposed Four Farms.

“This particular farm is within the growth area,” Venable said, referring to the Central Growth Area delineated in the city’s 2035 Comprehensive Plan. “The other farms were not. This one, we’re hoping, is much less controversial.”

The 125 acres currently under consideration are just south of Chippera Drive and currently are being used for agriculture.

Venable said the first phase will include only 185 homes.

“We don’t show any other development beyond that at this point,” she said. “For us to get any more than that, we’d have to have a special point of ingress and egress.”

The Four Farms project would have been much larger — about 2,000 single- and multi-family housing units on 462 acres, as well as 164,000 square feet of commercial space and a 19-acre site for an elementary school.

However, a primary area of concern that helped ensure the Four Farms project would be defeated remains — traffic.

Venable said the developer is offering some solutions.

“We’ve met with a couple of the civic groups, and we do understand there is a bit of a perceived traffic problem,” she said. “We are proffering, along with the project, road improvements that would happen prior to any of the units being developed.”

The intersection of White Marsh Road and East Washington Street, along with the intersection of East Washington Street and Portsmouth Boulevard, both would be improved at the developer’s expense, Venable said.

“They’re both problematic areas,” she said. “They’ve both been earmarked as projects that need improvements.”

An improved sewer line in the area, pump station improvements and a park open to the public near a lake on the property, also will be included in the project, Venable said.

She said the project is not very high-density, for a number of reasons.

“It didn’t make sense to look at any high-density type product, for both the market and the conditions that are in place today,” she said.

The developer also will pay about $5,280 per home constructed for middle school capacity, according to the city’s staff report.

City staff have recommended approval of the project.

Also at the Tuesday’s meeting, planners will consider a 44-home development on a 16-acre property near the intersection of Bennetts Pasture Road and Driver Lane. City staff have recommended denial of the request because it is not consistent with the comprehensive plan or Unified Development Ordinance and does not mitigate impacts to public facilities, according to a staff report.

A conditional use permit request for a pawn shop at 928 N. Main St. and a new location for Metropolitan Church Federal Credit Union at 133 Tynes St. also are on Tuesday’s agenda. City staff have recommended approval for both.

The meeting begins at 2 p.m. at City Hall, 442 W. Washington St.