The Aurora City Council is set to vote on preliminary plans for the 34-acre Lincoln Crossing South, the next phase of the large Pulte Homes residential development on the southeast side of the city.
Aldermen put the plans, as well as an amendment to the plan description, on the consent agenda for Tuesday’s regular City Council meeting, meaning it is likely to be approved.
The property is part of the overall 545-acre Pulte Homes development that includes Lincoln Crossing and the Del Webb development. It also includes some future commercial development that will be done by someone other than Pulte.
It is roughly bounded by Wolf’s Crossing, Route 30 and 111th Street.
The development was divided into six parcels. The first parcel was Lincoln Crossing, with 162 single-family homes, currently under development. Eric Prechtel, a Naperville-based attorney for Pulte, said 89 of those homes have closed.
The second parcel is the Del Webb development, some 545 single-family age-restricted homes, which Prechtel said has been met “with resounding success.”
Some 109 houses have already closed there.
Parcel 3 is the future commercial development. Parcels 4 and 5 were left as “flex parcels,” which the developer could build as traditional single-family homes, such as in Lincoln Crossing, or age-restricted homes, such as in Del Webb.
“The intent was to promote development consistency while taking into account the market,” Prechtel said.
Pulte has chosen more traditional single-family homes for Parcel 4, the 34-acre Lincoln Crossing South site.
The proposal is to build 97 traditional single-family residential homes. The development would have a mixture of 55-foot-wide lots with a minimum lot size of 7,150 square feet and 65-foot-wide lots with a minimum lot size of 8,060 square feet.
Prechtel pointed out that the lot sizes are the same as in Lincoln Crossing, but the density is different because all the stormwater detention was already done in the first two parcels. The lower density is why the developer needs an amendment to the plan description.
The developer currently is working with the Illinois Department of Transportation for a full access for the new development onto Route 30. Matt Brolley, of Pulte, said officials expect to get that put in by the end of the year.
But a second access to 111th Street may or may not happen, depending on what happens with the final part of the development, he said. If it does go in, it would be maybe in four years, Brolley said.
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