Photo provided This graphic shows the proposed layout for Vision Village, located west of County Road 150West, near Paula Drive.
The Columbus Board of Public Works and Safety updated a subdivision improvement agreement and plat for a project for 32 garden homes arranged as 16 duplexes in northeast Columbus.
The subdivision improvement agreement, between the city and Vision Housing LLC, is for section five of the Princeton Park major subdivision, also known as Vision Village, located west of County Road 150West, near Paula Drive.
Vision Housing LLC sought to switch its subdivision improvement agreement from a “Building and Dedicate” to a “Performance Guarantee,” allowing them to get the plat approved and recorded and start selling lots, according a memo from planning staff sent to the board.
The original subdivision improvement agreement was approved by the board on April 16, which allowed the developer to start construction of the public infrastructure required for the project, according to planning staff.
As part of the amended subdivision improvement agreement, a financial guarantee of $211,288 is to be deposited with the city for yet incomplete improvements.
“The planning department and engineering department have reviewed the cost estimates and bonds, and inspected the completed items and find everything in proper order,” planning’s Ashley Beckort wrote to board members.
The approved plat includes two cul-de-sacs for a total of 32 lots on 7 acres. The lots account for just under 3.2 acres and the property also has three common areas and a to-be-dedicated right-of-way just under 1 acre.
Vision Housing had gotten the property rezoned last August so that it can work under density and development standards that would allow for the duplexes.
Tim Thomas with Milestone Design Group, who spoke on behalf of Vision Housing, said at the time that each unit is expected to have two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a one-car garage. The shared wall between units will be the garage wall.
“The target demographic is empty nesters, single professionals, those with smaller families, those kinds of things,” Thomas told city council last year. “It’s planned to be more affordable, but would be the little a ‘affordable’ and not the capital A ‘Affordable.’”
