Manteca’s first townhouse project designed to create owner occupied units is being proposed on 2.10 acres between Grant and Lincoln avenues and north of Edison Street.
The Manteca Planning Commission will review the Diamond Villas project featuring 43 townhouses when they met Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center, 1001 W. Center St.
The townhouses are three stories and are attached in eight clusters with the largest number of units clustered together being seven facing Grant Avenue. Six attached townhouses will face Lincoln Avenue The developer plans to build Diamond Villas in four phases.
Two-car garages will be on the ground floor with residential quarters on the second and third floors. The three-story townhouses will range in size from 1,881 to 2,231 square feet. All garages will face private streets with four-foot driveway aprons.
The majority of the townhouses will have minimum front yard setbacks of 10 feet except for nine units going the common area in the center of the project. They will have no setback. Front yards will have a minimum of one tree each.
The common area will include a clubhouse with exercise room, a swimming pool, and a BBQ area. The common areas as well as landscaping will be maintained through a home owners association.
Overall the project has 30 percent open space. It also exceeds parking requirements for high density housing as each townhouse will have a two-car garage. There are also 14 parking stalls on site for guests. That does not include street parking fronting the project on Grant or Lincoln.
“The proposed townhomes on the subdivision map do not meet a variety of requirements in the Zoning Ordinance, Title 7,” noted Planning Manager Mark Meissner in the staff report. “The applicant has applied for a Planned Development to be allowed to deviate from these requirements and in exchange has committed to providing a superior development that will provide a unique housing product for the City of Manteca.”
The 2.19 acre site will have a density of 19.55 dwelling units per acre making it consistent with general plan guidelines for high density development. That is roughly four times the number of homes in a typical single family subdivision built in Manteca during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
There are high density parcels to the north and medium density to the south. The six parcels cobbled together for the project include legal non-conforming single family homes and vacant lots. To the east are single family homes and apartments while to the north are duplexes.
The area has been going through revitalization in recent years. Twenty single homes were built in the past decade across from Diamond Villas on Lincoln Court as well as fronting Edison.
Two new single family homes are being built on infill lots on the corner of Lincoln and Edison.
To the west across Grant from the proposed townhouses is where the Magnolia Court complex that offers subsidized apartment for seniors was built about five years ago. To the west of Diamond Villas is also the Bank of Stockton and String’s Restaurant.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
