The rooftops keep on coming.
Manteca — as of March 1 — has 13,757 homes and apartment units in various phases of the entitlement process.
If all are built based on Manteca’s housing yield of 3.2, they will add 44,022 people to the city’s current population, or essentially the existing population of Lathrop.
The breakdown includes:
*7,232 finalized and entitled subdivision lots.
*3,514 single family homes and apartment units under application review.
*2,163 finalized and entitled apartment units.
*826 apartment units under application review.
Manteca’s totals are somewhat rivaled by Lathrop that — between remaining lots at River Islands and the rest of the city — has roughly 12,000 somewhere in the entitlement process
That said, no other city in the three-county Northern San Joaquin Valley comes even close to those numbers of housing units in various stages of the development pipeline that are more than just mere wishes on a zoning map.
It is why Manteca and Lathrop are turning into magnets to get the attention of commercial developers as both cities have track records of solid annual housing growth and projects coming down the pike along with the infrastructure designed for relatively quick and easy expansion to support growth.
While both cities are at a strategic location for commuters straddling the six-mile 120 Bypass connecting Highway 99 and Interstate 5 as well as increasing popular exburbs for households pulling down robust Bay Area paychecks, Manteca is somewhat better positioned as it is posed to surpass 100,000 residents within the next two years.
It also has the advantage of not only having ample developable commercial land served by four interchanges in four miles with growth raising household incomes into the low six figures, but the city’s growth pattern puts the Bypass in the middle of Manteca growth.
The 120 Bypass is also at the epicenter of 700,000 consumers in Tracy, Modesto, Stockton, Lathrop, Ripon, and Modesto tied together by three freeways including Interstate 205.
Those 13,757 homes and apartments in various stages of the development process includes 2,154 north of Union Road that will open up “the north” to a housing boom as is occurring to the south of the Bypass.
South Manteca, besides having more than 2,200 finalized subdivision lots pending plot line approval to start the actual building process, has another 1,311 in the application process.
And that doesn’t count other land yet to move into the entitlement process such as the 1,080 Austin Road Business Park with zoning that includes 4,200 housing units that could be opened up for development with the new Austin Road/Highway 99 interchange now under construction.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
