Airport Way from Crom Street south of Yosemite Avenue will be closed starting Monday, March 24.

The closure through Monday, April 7, will allow a developer to conduct utility work.

The utilities are in connection with the biggest neighborhood of duplex-style homes that Manteca has ever approved.

The project includes 114 duplexes and two traditional detached single-family homes to be built on 13.2 acres on what will become the northeast corner of Airport Way and Center Street.

The neighborhood is going immediately south of where the 99-home Yosemite Greens is located on the southeast corner of Airport Way and Crom Street along the western boundary of the municipal golf course.

The builder intends to sell all of the duplexes. That opens the door for what will likely be lower priced — at least in terms of the new housing market — owner occupied homes in Manteca.

There will be four different duplex models built.

Each duplex will have a two-car garage and the ability to park two vehicles in the driveway.

A segment of Center Street will be built starting at Airport Way and stubbed on the eastern end of the property. That leaves just one parcel to be developed before another east-west collector street will intersect with Airport Way.

The city’s long-range plans call for a traffic signal at Center Street and Airport Way once Center Street is punched all the way through. A traffic signal is going in at Airport Way and Crom Street as part of the Yosemite Greens project.

Sidewalks along Airport Way will be eight feet wide. The developer will put in two new northbound lanes including space for a bicycle lane as well as the median and new pavement that is 12-foot wide for southbound traffic.

It dovetails into improvements already made on Airport Way by Yosemite Greens as well as the 760-plus Villa Ticino West neighborhood on the southwest corner of Airport Way and Louise Avenue.

 To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com