Future buyers of halfplexes at Hat Ranch could one day be the young families of teachers, hospital workers, and police officers that those in the financial position to buy larger nearby resale homes will rely on.
That’s the premise behind state laws regarding affordable housing and why the Richland Communities worked with the City of Manteca development services department to create the 738-home planned development in southeast Manteca.
Some living in the nearby existing neighborhoods where there have been big tract homes on larger lots that have sold for $1.1 million on the resale market, objected to the development due what they claimed was higher density.
The overall density of the Hat Ranch, however, is similar to the adjoining neighborhoods
Sixty-four of the 104 halfplexes are in clusters of four that share a common driveway in the southeast corner of the project.
They back up to sound walls that will run along the southern extension of Atherton Drive and the future western extension of Raymus Parkway from Griffin Park where it will intersect South Main Street at a planned roundabout.
Directly across the street from the cluster halfplexes will be the eastern and southern edges of a 16-acre elementary school site and part one of two planned parks in the project.
As such\, they are far away from existing homes and back up to what will be two busy arterials.
The Manteca Planning Commission on a 2-1 vote Thursday recommended the City Council annex the land and approve the tentative map providing staff’s recommendation that an 80-20 split of the county’s current property tax share with the city getting 80 percent is in place. The current split is 60-40 in the city’s favor.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com