D.R. Horton’s David Auld with an aerial of the progress internet site (D.R. Horton, WGI)
Homebuilder D.R. Horton gained a rezoning for Hunters Manor, a prepared infill development of 59 single-family members residences in Pompano Seashore.
The Pompano Beach front Town Commission voted Tuesday to rezone the 9-acre progress website from “single-spouse and children residential” (RS-3) and “multi-family members residential” (RM-12) to “residential planned device development” (RPUD).
The rezoning will increase from 56 to 59 the range of one-family members houses that Arlington, Texas-dependent D.R. Horton can establish on the Hunters Manor site. A plat permitted in 2016 restricts the 9-acre Pompano Seaside website to a maximum of 65 detached solitary-family members residences.
Charges for households at Hunters Manor will in all probability commence “in the lower $400,000s,” Scott Backman, an legal professional symbolizing D.R. Horton, stated at a city commission conference two weeks in the past, when commissioners tentatively approved the rezoning on to start with looking at.
Residences at grasp-prepared Hunters Manor will have 4 or 5 bedrooms and will vary in size from 1,739 sq. ft to 2,717 square ft. Style options include things like one- or two-story properties with 1- or two-vehicle garages. The residential growth will have an internal community of sidewalks, a mail kiosk, and an open up-air pavilion.
A few yrs back, the town chosen D.R. Horton’s Hunters Manor proposal in reaction to an RFP, or a community request for proposals, to produce housing on the infill internet site, which is owned by the Pompano Seashore Group Redevelopment Agency. The agency issued the request for proposals in September 2019 and D.R. Horton gained the RFP award in November 2019.
D.R. Horton is underneath deal to pay the CRA $1.6 million for the internet site, in accordance to a assets disposition and growth agreement between the CRA and D.R. Horton.
“The undertaking has been doing the job its way as a result of this method for fairly some time,” Backman, the attorney for D.R. Horton, claimed at the Sept. 13 fee assembly. “The RFP award went to my customer [D.R. Horton] just in advance of Covid set in, and so the approach has taken a minimal bit longer.”
Established in 1978 by Donald R. Horton, D.R. Horton ranks as the major homebuilder by volume in the U.S. because 2002, according to its internet site. The business operates in 105 marketplaces in 33 states across the region.
The Pompano Seashore development web-site is just east of Powerline Road, bounded by Northwest 9th Avenue on the north aspect and Northwest 6th Road on the south, and by Northwest 18th Avenue on the east and Northwest 19th Avenue on the west.
D.R. Horton’s project usually takes its identify from Hunters Manor Park, an 8.4-acre, open up-space park that borders the improvement web-site on its south facet. One-family members properties are alongside the north and west sides of the internet site. The new Marquis Apartments, a 100-unit inexpensive housing improvement, is also alongside the north aspect of the website. The east facet is bordered by an vehicle physique paint shop, church property, and vacant land.
“There had been several residential households on the issue internet site in the previous, but it is at this time vacant … [and] represents a void in the Hunters Manor community,” in accordance to a report on behalf of the CRA by building engineering and consulting firm WGI.
