An Aurora City Council committee on Wednesday approved final plans for the 74-home Prairie Meadows subdivision on the far West Side.
The 37-acre site, to be developed by Lennar Homes, will feature houses of between 8,000 square feet and 12,000 square feet. The homes would run between $450,000 and $460,000, and would be two- and three-bedroom homes of varying sizes, according to Lennar Homes officials.
The property is on the north side of Prairie Street, west of North Kingsway Drive. It is on property once owned by the West Aurora School District where a middle school would have been built.
The development will not be age-restricted, but will be age-targeted for empty nesters.
Lennar Homes, one of the largest national homebuilders, already has a development in Aurora, Liberty Meadows. It also has developments in Elburn, Oswego, Batavia and two in Yorkville.
Because these are final plans, the approval by the City Council’s Building, Zoning and Economic Development Committee is final, unless any alderman appeals them to the full City Council.
When the City Council approved the preliminary plans late last year, some neighbors were concerned about the effect the development would have on flooding, because of wetland on the property.
Since then, the developer agreed to leave the wetland alone, and save trees along one side of the development as a buffer.
“The neighbors are happy about saving the trees, and that the wetland there will not be disturbed,” said Ald. Carl Franco, 5th Ward, a committee member. The development is in the 5th Ward.
The development also will include a neighborhood park with a gazebo, and pickleball courts. The courts will be restricted to residents of the subdivision, developers said.
The development will have a homeowners association that does basic maintenance.