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BID TO BUILD 1,475 HOUSING UNITS ALONG N. UNION ROAD
Homes proposed north of Del Webb & Union Ranch
annex north map
The blue area depicts proposed housing projects along Union Road north of Lathrop Road.

Two annexations that will add 1,475 housing units — 1,275 single family homes and 200 apartment units — are now in the environmental review process.

They are located between Union Road and the Highway 99 Frontage Road in north Manteca.

The draft environmental report for the first annexation has been posted on the city’s website and is in circulation for comments. It includes 715 single family homes and 200 apartment units.

The draft EIR for the second project has yet to be completed. It includes 560 single family homes.

 All 1,475 housing units would be within a half-mile of the Lathrop Road and Highway 99 interchange. At an average yield of 3.2 people per unit between the single family homes and apartments at buildout the five projects may add 4,720 residents to Manteca’s population.

There are now 6,539 housing units either entitled, with a preliminary map, or in initial review that have yet to be built in Manteca. If they are all built they would add roughly 22,860 residents. Add the proposed two projects now at the EIR stage and altogether the housing in the entitlement pipeline could add 27,580 people to Manteca that currently has just over 88,000 residents.

The two projects that are in north Manteca would add more traffic to the Union Road corridor as well as the Frontage Road that ties into Crestwood Avenue at Lathrop Road just west of the interchange and the Main Street corridor.

They will also require a new road to connect Union Road with Frontage Road that likely will connect with Lovelace Road or possibly Roth Road.

 

Future students likely

to attend EU High

Students are likely to attend East Union High as the bulk of Manteca’s present growth is in the south sending new 9th through 12th grade students to Manteca and Sierra high schools.

Manteca High is currently being expanded to take the education program design of the campus to 2,200 students.

The long-range Manteca Unified plan for its three high school campuses in Manteca is to expand their capacity by 450 to 550 students with an ideal enrollment cap of 2,200.

That is the equivalent of adding another high school without having to build expensive infrastructure and support facilities.

The school board picked the design of 2,200 students not solely as a cost effective way of utilizing tax dollars but because the size allows the offering of an optimum variety of educational offerings without becoming unwieldy.

Eventually there could be a need for an elementary school site north of Union Road.

The area is now part of the New Haven School attendance area.

The district has also opted to expand existing elementary campuses first before building new ones. The upper enrollment target for elementary school expansions has been set at 1,000 to 1,100.

The strategy underscores the reality school growth fees, Mello Roos taxes, and the district’s bonds capacity can’t cover 100 percent of the cost of a new school campus construction.

The typical cost of building a new elementary school for 600 students from scratch is now pegged at $30 million. The cost of a new high school for 1,500 students in land purchase and infrastructure is now pushing $200 million.


To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com