BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— City Manager Lynn Rutkowski said the developers of a proposed 180-home project north of Fox Run Road and Commercial Circle and east of SR 21 near American Legion Post 202 have put the project on hold.
Rutkowski said the developers have other projects they are focusing on now and will continue to advance their Keystone Heights proposal in the future.
In July, Craig Frasier of CHW Civil Engineering won approval from Keystone’s Growth Management Committee to change the urban development plan for the 25-acre parcel, reducing the number of allowed units within the development and changing much of its composition from multifamily to single-family.
Fraiser, who represented the developer, said market conditions are now favoring single-family housing. The amendment to the 2009-approved PUD reduced the allowed units within the project from 204 to 180.
During the July meeting, Fraiser said construction for the project could begin within one year.
Growth Management Committee member and Vice Mayor Steve Hart noted that if fully realized, the project would increase the population of Keystone Heights by 30%.
Trailer park out, modular homes in
Rutkowski also said the developers of a proposed mobile home park at the intersection of Sunrise Boulevard and Nightingale Street have change their concept to a modular home development.
In May, developer Jed Duckro proposed to city council members a 63-lot mobile home park on the 14.8-acre site called Country Meadows.
He said that the community would be restricted to residents aged 55 and older and that the sole builder of the manufactured homes would be Palm Harbor Homes.
Rutkowski said that now, the developer is proposing modular homes within the park rather than mobile homes.
Like the mobile homes, the modular houses would be manufactured at Palm Harbor’s factory in Pinellas County. However, unlike mobile homes, the units would be assembled on site upon a concrete foundation and would have the look of a site-built home.
