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Council approves Ponderosa Place PUD, plats and service agreements for mixed-housing project
Summary
Papillion City Council unanimously approved zoning, final plat, PUD agreement and related service agreements for the Ponderosa Place development, a multi-phase, mixed-housing project the applicant described as including apartments, row houses, attached single-family and other products.
Papillion's City Council unanimously approved multiple items on Feb. 4 to allow the Ponderosa Place development to proceed, including a change of zone to R-4 PUD, a final plat, a planned-unit development agreement and sewer/water and subdivision agreements.
Ordinance 2,042 (change of zone from AG to R-4 PUD) was approved on a 7-0 vote. The council also approved Resolution R250029 (final plat), Resolution R250030 (subdivision agreements), Resolution R250031 (PUD agreement), Resolution R250032 (sewer and water connection agreement) and R250033 (third amendment to the 72 Place subdivision agreement). All were recorded as passed by unanimous vote.
Applicant representative Jason Thielen described the overall project as roughly an 80-acre, multi-phase development that would include market-rate apartments (about 320 units in the apartment area), roughly 45 row houses and a mix of attached single-family and villa-style detached homes. He said the project provides a transition from a busy arterial (S. 72nd / 70 Second Street) to lower-density housing.
On the record, Thielen said the for-sale attached single-family products in the first phase would be "somewhere between $300,000 and $350,000 a side," and he described the row houses as a three-level product with about 700 square feet per level (roughly 2,100 square feet total).
Planning staff told the council the submissions conform to the city's comprehensive plan and to the Affordable Housing Action Plan by providing a range of housing types and price points. Council discussion highlighted the mix of product types as a way to add "missing middle" housing choices and to provide alternatives for buyers who do not want large yards or high-maintenance properties.
Ending: With unanimous votes the Ponderosa Place project cleared the council's land-use and service-agreement approvals; staff and the developer will proceed to finalize engineering and construction scheduling required for phased buildout.
