A developer plans to break ground in September on a 305-home development on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Sugar Hill intended to offer more workforce housing in one of the city’s employment areas.
City officials rezoned about 42.5 acres next to the Creekside at Pinecrest subdivision on Monday evening. BBC Investment Group will construct 165 townhomes and 140 “stacked flats,” or condos built on top of each other, on the property.
No one spoke in opposition to the plan during a public hearing.
The homes in the Gwinnett city will tentatively sell in the high $200,000 range, said Dillon Lee, a representative for BBC Investment Group. The first home will be completed in spring 2022, he said.
“We all grew up and work in Sugar Hill,” Lee said. “We’ve got a lot of roots here ... and we think (the development is) a good spot for the future growth coming up this way.”
Located near EE Robinson Park, the development is priced to serve as workforce housing for the city’s only existing employment area outside the downtown area. It will act as a transition between single-family homes and light manufacturing and warehouses located nearby.
The homes will be constructed to mimic styles found in both suburban and urban areas, more dense than detached single-family homes but less dense than a mid-rise apartment complex.
These types of homes give people moving out of apartment complexes somewhere to buy a home when they don’t want to upkeep a traditional single-family home, Lee said.
The flats will have one, two or three bedrooms, while the townhomes will have three bedrooms. Each townhome will have a two-car garage with a driveway that can accommodate two more cars. At least 120 spaces of on-street parking will be built.
BBC Investment Group will either install crosswalks with traffic signals to cross Peachtree Industrial Boulevard from the development or pay the City of Sugar Hill $50,000 to construct them.
A homeowner’s association will be created to maintain all streets, alleys, sidewalks, common area landscaping and stormwater infrastructure.
The development will have a “village green” for residents, connected by nature trails that meander throughout the property, said Kaipo Awana, planning director of Sugar Hill.
The development will help diversify the “one-sided” housing options for residents, he said, by providing alternatives to detached single-family homes.
More than 23,000 people live in Sugar Hill, according to the latest U.S. Census data. Only 4% of all housing in the city are townhomes, while 89% are single-family homes, according to data presented by Awana.
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