Elk Grove officials finalize plans for $16.6 million subdivisions. Where will they be built?
Elk Grove continues to make investments into developing housing, following agreements worth more than $16 million with Beazer Homes Holdings, LLC.
Elk Grove City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved agreements with Beazer, a housing construction company, to build neighboring properties Poppy Meadows and Backer, formerly named Madeira South.
The new developments are set to be built on the city’s south side near Bilby and Poppy Ridge roads.
The Poppy Meadows neighborhood is made up of two communities, Poppy Meadows east and west, which will cost a combined $6.9 million for public improvements such as roadway, drainage and landscaping improvements. The figure does not include the price of building homes.
The Poppy Meadows neighborhoods, off of Spoonwood Avenue, are planned for 84 residential lots, an open space parkway lot for pedestrian trails and landscape corridor lots. Poppy Meadows East is made up of 34 single-family residential lots, while Poppy Meadows West neighborhood has 50 residential lots planned.
Elk Grove Director of Development Services Christopher Jordan said he expects the improvements to proceed through the rest of this year with home construction to follow.
Jordan said the Backer neighborhood is next to the Poppy Meadows residential developments. The Backer neighborhood will be developed at Morningdew Street and Spoonwood Avenue, near Big Horn Boulevard.
The final map for the Backer development was also approved Wednesday on the consent agenda of the Elk Grove City Council meeting.
Backer will cost $9.7 million to develop the neighborhood by improving streets, public ways, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, storm drainages, public utility facilities and landscaping. This does not include not home construction, Jordan said.
Continued growth, more living options
Elk Grove continues to see real estate development around the city.
Last month, city officials unanimously approved plans with Taylor Morrison of California to develop the Telos Greens Project, an approximately 26.2-acre, 85-home residential neighborhood with a 4.8-acre park site to be built south of Bilby Road, near Angsley Drive and east of Montaria Way.
The California Department of Finance estimated the Elk Grove population at 178,679 as of Jan. 1, 2024, an increase of 0.7% from the previous year.
The city has responded to its continued growth by adding more living options. There are 18 affordable apartment complexes in Elk Grove, four of which are senior living homes.
The city has additional planned sites such as Sheldon Farms North by Abode Communities, the Pardes Apartments and Project Elevate which would bring 200 apartments in a “midtown-like” area with 15% of homes reserved for affordable housing.
More living options — both houses and apartments — are expected to emerge in the area in coming years, officials said.
Jordan said the city received more than 1,000 single-family building permits in the previous year. According to a city staff report, there were 1,231 permits submitted in Elk Grove for single-family residential units, multi-family apartment units and condominiums, and accessory dwelling units.
The Department of Finance estimated there are 58,979 housing units in Elk Grove, as of 2024, a 1.4% increase from the previous year.
“We are certainly seeing a lot of new development right now,” he said.
