The biggest neighborhood of duplex-style homes ever built in Manteca has been approved.
The City Council action on Tuesday will allow 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 currently under construction 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.
Councilman Jose Nuno noted it means people might opt to buy both sides of a duplex and then live on one side while renting the other side. That would give many people a new option such as selling an existing home and converting their equity into a new home as well as income property.
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 being 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.
When the three projects are completed they will add 989 homes along Airport Way between Louise Avenue and Yosemite Avenue.
Yosemite Green features typical lots of 43 by 75 feet compared to “standard lots” that tend to be 60 by 100 feet in areas of Manteca that do not have so-called McMansions built on lots ranging from 8,000 to 12,000 square feet.
The 3,255 square foot lot will be some of the smallest tract home lots in Manteca.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
