A new single-family home subdivision by national homebuilder Pulte Homes could be coming to land near Marmion Academy in Aurora.
Harvest Point subdivision would contain 59 single-family homes between roughly 2,300 and 3,200 square feet with three to five bedrooms and two- or three-car garages, according to a presentation by Russ Whitaker, a Naperville-based attorney who represented Pulte at an April 9 meeting of the Aurora City Council’s Building, Zoning and Economic Development Committee.
Plans for the site are set to go before the Aurora City Council for approval at a meeting Tuesday evening.
The vacant land where the subdivision would be built is on the east side of South Raddant Road and across from The Vineyards subdivision. There would be two entrances to the Harvest Point subdivision, both on South Raddant Road and both across from existing streets, according to site plans presented by Whitaker.
Some houses in the Harvest Point subdivision would back up to the Kirkland Farms neighborhood, but there would be landscape buffering and not be any roads directly connecting the two subdivisions, site plans show.
The site of the proposed subdivision is currently part of the Marmion Academy Conditional Use Planned Development, so City Council is also set to vote to remove the site from that planned development to create a new one for the subdivision.
This is similar to what the Aurora City Council approved last month for the Abbey Meadows townhouse development by Lennar Homes, which is next to the proposed Harvest Point subdivision.
Pulte has previously gotten approval for and built a number of other housing developments in Aurora. Most recently, in December, the Aurora City Council approved a Pulte townhouse development near Eola Road called Eola Preserve.
The previously-approved Eola Preserve project saw pushback from nearby residents during the approval process, but Whitaker said when Pulte met with those living near the proposed Harvest Point subdivision, it was a “very positive meeting.”
The houses to be built in the proposed Harvest Point subdivision would be similar to those Pulte has built in the Lincoln Crossing development also in Aurora, Whitaker told the Building, Zoning and Economic Development Committee earlier this month.
There would be five different home plans built in the subdivision, with each type having variability in square footage, number of bedrooms and type of garage, Whitaker’s presentation showed. He said the subdivision would not look monotonous because of the difference in the homes.
Basements would be standard for the houses, according to his presentation.
A different Pulte representative at the April 9 meeting said the homes would start in the low $500,000 range, similar to what is being sold at Lincoln Crossing.
If the project is approved, Pulte would look to break ground this year and start selling houses in the subdivision around March 2026, with all homes likely sold within three years, the company’s representative said.
In addition to items creating a Conditional Use Planned Development zoning for the site and approving the subdivision’s plan, a third item related to the project would rezone a small strip of property that nearby homeowners have been using as their land because Marmion put up a fence that was not on their property line. That land is planned to be given to the homeowners, Whitaker said.
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