Ground is breaking next month on the 1,237-home Manteca Trails neighborhood.
The Manteca City Council Tuesday is allowing Raymus Homes to proceed with grading for the first four units prior to issuance of the final map.
Manteca Trails will be the western most neighborhoods that will ever be built in Manteca due to floodplain issues and flood protection plans as well as the closest to the San Joaquin River.
It is located at the western end of Woodward Avenue across from the gated Oakwood Shores neighborhood.
It is nestled against an existing dry levee that will be enhanced with rocks beneath it to absorb water to protect its integrity as well as widened to 50 feet. Space will be left if there is a need in the future to widen the levee further. The dry levee will be designed to allow recreational use on top of it which typically means an area for walkers, bicyclists, and joggers.
Woodward Avenue wraps around the northern and western edges of Manteca Trails before it turns into Williamson Road that leads to Turtle Beach RV Resort along the San Joaquin River.
With Manteca Trails moving forward it means overall there are now seven new developments physically moving forward that will result in almost 3,800 additional homes being built.
It includes Villa Ticino West on the southwest corner of Airport Way and Louise Avenue with 760 homes the council also allowed Tuesday to proceed with site work before the final map is approved.
There are also five other projects that are now under construction.
The largest — Griffin Park along South Main Street south of Woodward Avenue — is now building the first of 1,301 homes. The first occupants are anticipated by spring.
Streets and other infrastructure are now being constructed for the 154-home North Main Street Commons on the east side of North Main Street at Northgate Drive. Work on the first homes will start in early 2022.
There are three other neighborhoods in the process of being developed — Trumark Homes on Louise Avenue and west of Cottage Avenue — and three new communities along Woodward Avenue. There are roughly 300 more housing units that can still be built among the four subdivisions.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
