New single-family subdivision coming to Aurora near Marmion Academy
A new single-family subdivision by national homebuilder Pulte Homes is set to be built near Marmion Academy in Aurora.
The subdivision, called Harvest Point, was approved by the Aurora City Council at its meeting Tuesday. It is set to have 59 single-family homes which will feature three to five bedrooms, according to past reporting.
The vacant land where the subdivision is planned to be built is on the east side of South Raddant Road and across from The Vineyards subdivision.
The new Harvest Point subdivision's two entrances will both be on South Raddant Road and across from existing streets, site plans show.
Some houses in the Harvest Point subdivision will back up to the Kirkland Farms neighborhood, but landscape buffering is planned and no roads are expected to connect the two subdivisions.
Pulte has previously gotten approval for and built a number of other housing developments in Aurora, including the townhouse development near Eola Road called Eola Preserve, which was approved by the Aurora City Council in December.
The houses to be built in the Harvest Point subdivision would be similar to those Pulte has built in the Lincoln Crossing development, which is also in Aurora, an attorney representing Pulte previously told an Aurora City Council committee.
There are set to be five different home plans built in the new subdivision, with each type having variability in square footage, number of bedrooms and type of garage. Generally, the houses are expected to be between roughly 2,300 and 3,200 square feet with three to five bedrooms and two- or three-car garages, with basements standard.
The homes are expected to start in the low $500,000 range, similar to what is being sold at Lincoln Crossing, according to past reporting.
Pulte is looking to break ground on the subdivision this year and start selling houses around March 2026, with all homes likely sold within three years, a company representative previously said.
At Tuesday's meeting, the Aurora City Council approved plans for the development, created a Conditional Use Planned Development zoning at the site and rezoned a small strip of property that nearby homeowners have been using as their land after Marmion put up a fence that was not on their property line. The small strip of land is planned to be given to the nearby homeowners who have been using it.
All three items were approved by City Council as a part of the Tuesday meeting's consent agenda, which is typically used for routine or non-controversial items that are all approved with one vote.
The site of the new subdivision was previously part of the Marmion Academy Conditional Use Planned Development, but when City Council created the planned development zoning for the site, it was removed from the Marmion planned development. This is similar to what the Aurora City Council previously approved for the Abbey Meadows townhouse development by Lennar Homes, which is set to be built next to the Harvest Point subdivision.
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