Warsaw Takes First Step Toward Approving 148-Unit Complex
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
The Canterbury House Apartments plat was given preliminary approval by the Warsaw Plan Commission Monday, the first step toward construction of the 148-unit, $5.6-million project.
City planner Jeff Noffsinger said the apartments are expected to be completed in two phases at the 16-acre site at 1751 Husky Trail.
This location is south of Deed's Creek on the west side of the road, north of Silver Fox subdivision and across the road from Harrison Elementary School.
Brian Brown, of DA Brown Engineering Consultants, Kendallville, said construction could begin as early as June with 80 units of the first phase completed in about nine months.
Jeff Kittle, of Herman and Associates, will own and manage the two-story apartment complex. He said this will be the 46th project in five states for his company and they have spent three years looking at this site.
"There is a strong need for high quality apartment units here," he said, noting that each unit will cost $70,000 and will rent for $350 to $600 per month. One-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments will be available to low-to-moderate income people, whose rent will be subsidized through Housing Opportunities of Warsaw.
Sharon Mitterling, an adjacent property owner, approached the board with concern about increased traffic and noise.
"Husky Trail is very busy now," she said. "Kids can't cross the road to go to school and have to be bused."
She also said her family has lived on their property for six years and thought they moved far enough from town not to have neighbors right next door. Now their view will be of a 6-foot-high landscape buffer between their property and the apartment complex.
Commission president Joe Thallemer said every time a development is considered along Husky Trail, traffic becomes an issue as it had with the nixed Meier proposal last year.
"However, we're not here to discuss traffic patterns, are we?" he said.
Kittle said the first $2 million of the project will be financed through a conventional loan and the remainder with Indiana Housing Finance Authority tax credits.
The exterior of each unit will be 75 percent brick with the one-bedroom apartments being 750 square feet; two- bedroom, 950 square feet; three-bedroom apartments, 1,200 square feet; and four bedrooms, 1,400 square feet.
The project is expected to come before the board at the April 8 meeting for secondary approval with questions concerning the detention pond calculations and the passing lane on Husky Trail to be answered. [[In-content Ad]]
The Canterbury House Apartments plat was given preliminary approval by the Warsaw Plan Commission Monday, the first step toward construction of the 148-unit, $5.6-million project.
City planner Jeff Noffsinger said the apartments are expected to be completed in two phases at the 16-acre site at 1751 Husky Trail.
This location is south of Deed's Creek on the west side of the road, north of Silver Fox subdivision and across the road from Harrison Elementary School.
Brian Brown, of DA Brown Engineering Consultants, Kendallville, said construction could begin as early as June with 80 units of the first phase completed in about nine months.
Jeff Kittle, of Herman and Associates, will own and manage the two-story apartment complex. He said this will be the 46th project in five states for his company and they have spent three years looking at this site.
"There is a strong need for high quality apartment units here," he said, noting that each unit will cost $70,000 and will rent for $350 to $600 per month. One-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments will be available to low-to-moderate income people, whose rent will be subsidized through Housing Opportunities of Warsaw.
Sharon Mitterling, an adjacent property owner, approached the board with concern about increased traffic and noise.
"Husky Trail is very busy now," she said. "Kids can't cross the road to go to school and have to be bused."
She also said her family has lived on their property for six years and thought they moved far enough from town not to have neighbors right next door. Now their view will be of a 6-foot-high landscape buffer between their property and the apartment complex.
Commission president Joe Thallemer said every time a development is considered along Husky Trail, traffic becomes an issue as it had with the nixed Meier proposal last year.
"However, we're not here to discuss traffic patterns, are we?" he said.
Kittle said the first $2 million of the project will be financed through a conventional loan and the remainder with Indiana Housing Finance Authority tax credits.
The exterior of each unit will be 75 percent brick with the one-bedroom apartments being 750 square feet; two- bedroom, 950 square feet; three-bedroom apartments, 1,200 square feet; and four bedrooms, 1,400 square feet.
The project is expected to come before the board at the April 8 meeting for secondary approval with questions concerning the detention pond calculations and the passing lane on Husky Trail to be answered. [[In-content Ad]]