Republic file photo Columbus City Hall is shown in downtown Columbus.
City officials approved a pair of items regarding a new subdivision along County Road 200 West that will include a comparatively more affordable starter-home product.
The Columbus Board of Public Works and Safety on Tuesday approved an amendment to a previously approved subdivision improvement agreement for section two of the Sutter Place subdivision, located along County Road 200 West south of Lowell Road.
The board also approved a final plat for the second section of Sutter Place that encompasses 103 of the total 273 lots, allowing the developer to obtain building permits and start lot sales. Section one of Sutter Place encompassed the initial 50 lots.
Planning Director Jeff Bergman said the subdivision will likely be built in either three or four phases, depending on lot sale progress.
The subdivision is being developed by Arbor Homes and includes its Arrival Series products, previously referred to as Genesis-style homes, which are intended to be more affordable for first-time homebuyers.
The homes are designed in clusters centered on shared motor courts and sit on smaller lots, with the structure taking up most of them, according to planning officials. There will be 92 of the product on the development in total, according to the planning department.
A number of the first group of Arrival Series homes have already been sold, according to an interactive map on Arbor Homes’ website.
They range in price from $199,995 to $256,995, depending on the floor plan, with 2- and 3-story options, ranging from 1,158 to over 2,000 square feet.
Sutter Place is one of three subdivisions developed by Arbor Homes in recent years, joining 313-lot Abbey Place, and Abbey Commons slightly to the north, which is more than 40 lots.
Arbor Homes in January 2022 received approval from the Columbus Board of Zoning Appeals to allow the then-Genesis homes to have lower percentages of ground floor living area than required by local zoning standards.
Columbus City Council about three months later gave approval to annex and rezone land the subdivision is on from Columbus Township into the city and from Agricultural: Preferred to Residential: Two-Family.
