Manteca is now exploring financing options for a fire station that will serve the fastest growing section of the community.The City Council Tuesday approved 30 percent design drawings for the 6,711-square-foot station on land on the corner of Atherton Drive and Woodward Avenue in southeast Manteca. It will be the city’s fifth fire station.It’s location not only will serve 2,465 homes already built in southeast Manteca that are outside of the city’s targeted response time of five minutes from existing stations, but it is situated so it will be able to serve the envisioned 1,050-acre Austin Road Business Park as well as more homes that are now under construction in the area.And what you see built at that location will be replicated when a sixth fire station is built in southeast Manteca near the McKinley Avenue and Woodward Avenue intersection. That’s because the design for the Atherton Drive/Woodward Avenue was purposely developed to serve as a template for future stations to reduce costs.The city has $1.6 million on hand as of June 30, 2017 in the government facilities fees account.