Ongoing urban renewal in the 600 and 700 blocks of Grant Avenue and Lincoln Avenue could get a $17 million boost.
Developers are seeking the Manteca City Council’s blessing to approve a 43-unit gated townhouse project known as Diamond Villas on 2.1 acres between Grant and Lincoln avenues north of Edison Street.
The council will consider approving the project. The townhouses are expected to sell for at least $400,000 when completed giving the project and overall market value in excess of $17 million.
Work is now underway on two new single family homes on the southern end of the block along Edison Street on land that once had a mobile home on it.
More than four years ago Magnolia Court — subsidized senior housing apartments was built along Grant Avenue behind Dribbles Car Wash and Burger King.
About a decade ago 20 single family homes were built on the northeast corner of Edison and Lincoln were several dilapidated houses sat on a large parcel.
The townhouse will require razing several dilapidated homes that created problems in recent years with vagrants and homeless breaking into them.
Diamond Villas will be Manteca’s first townhouse project designed to create owner occupied units.
The townhouses are three stories and are attached in eight clusters with the largest number of units clustered together being seven facing Grant Avenue. Six attached townhouses will face Lincoln Avenue The developer plans to build Diamond Villas in four phases.
Two-car garages will be on the ground floor with residential quarters on the second and third floors. The three-story townhouses will range in size from 1,881 to 2,231 square feet. All garages will face private streets with four-foot driveway aprons.
The majority of the townhouses will have minimum front yard setbacks of 10 feet except for nine units being built next to the common area in the center of the project. They will have no setback. Front yards will have a minimum of one tree each.
The common area will include a clubhouse with exercise room, a swimming pool, and a BBQ area. The common areas as well as landscaping will be maintained through a home owners association.
Overall the project has 30 percent open space. It also exceeds parking requirements for high density housing as each townhouse will have a two-car garage. There are also 14 parking stalls on site for guests. That does not include street parking fronting the project on Grant or Lincoln.
The 2.19 acre site will have a density of 19.55 dwelling units per acre making it consisted with general plan guidelines for high density development. That is roughly four times the number of homes in a typical single family subdivision built in Manteca during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
There are high density parcels to the north and medium density to the south. The six parcels cobbled together for the project include legal non-conforming single family homes and vacant lots. To the east are single family homes and apartments while to the north are duplexes.
The townhouse development will be gated. While two private streets will go thru the project between Grant and Lincoln, the southern street’s gates will remain closed at all times.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
