The round house (pictured above) on Concord Blvd. near Kirker Pass in Concord was recently torn down, and a developer will soon build about 40 homes on the vacant property next to Crossroads Church.
City officials previously reviewed the proposal for the five-acre site at 5291 Concord Blvd., granting key entitlements including a Vesting Tentative Map, Planned Development Use Permit, Design and Site Review, and a Tree Removal Permit. The development is expected to move forward.
The property is designated for low-density residential use under the city’s General Plan and is zoned for single-family homes with minimum 10,000-square-foot lots, making the project consistent with existing land-use regulations.
City documents indicate the project qualified for streamlined environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, citing Section 15183, which applies to projects aligned with established zoning and community plans.
I love how. This news piece does not give the developer’s name. Let me guess lennar.or seeno homes.
The public MLS record shows the same agent represented both buyer and seller
(Michael A. Moore of Stokley Properties . No listing of who bought it.. interesting
How much did it sell for? I would have loved to have bought that ….and it wouldn’t be developed into 40 high density rat shacks…
domo,
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Lot sizes that are a minimum of 10,000 square feet aren’t high-density. I do hate to see this vacant property go away though. I hate infill development projects.
The lots will all be 3740 square feet with houses that are around 2000 square feet plus a garage. They’re being built by DeNova homes. They were approved quite some time ago.
Black Knight says 10K sq ft lot sizes which wouldn’t be small – yours says 3740, which to me says high density imo
domo,
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The article appears to be wrong about the lot size.
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I watched a Concord City Council meeting back a couple months ago where 940 housing units are proposed for the 59-acre former military housing site on East Olivera Road, which would average out at about 2,735 square feet per unit, and the City of Concord wouldn’t classify that as high-density.
Winston,
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For whatever reason the article then appears to be wrong on the size of the individual lots. I remember this project, the Bird Subdivision, being approved sometime last year. I posted down below that I believed DeNova Homes was the developer, but I was only about 90% sure because of all of the proposed, planned, and under construction projects underway in Concord, it can be difficult to keep them all straight.
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Here’s a link to a map showing Concord’s Development Projects.
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https://concordgis.ci.concord.ca.us/DevViewer/
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According to Zillow it sold for $5,000,000.
That’s exactly what it will be just take a look no further than 5 miles away! All those hideous slum housing projects springing up downtown. That they politely call high density low income. Funny thing is you moved away from cities to escape the pricing and crime but our worthless city and county leaders have yielded these results. This city used to be warm welcoming slow easy going.
Barely H Inthere,
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Those downtown Concord high-density housing projects aren’t being politely called “high-density low income,” they’re being politely called “affordable housing” or high-density affordable housing.”
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I wouldn’t put all of the blame on “city and county leaders,” but quite a bit of the blame belongs to the State of California who’ve been stripping local government of control over housing development. Although, I will say that as Concord City Councilmembers have come and gone, with each new incarnation of the council, one thing has remained a constant, the inability or unwillingness of the Concord City Council to ever say “NO” to a developer. All of these different incarnations of the Concord City Council either haven’t or don’t know, understand, or care that if Concord voters were voting for or against approving or rejecting these housing projects that are being forced upon on us on the ballot, that most of these projects wouldn’t be approved in their current forms.
I believe DeNova Homes is the developer of what’s been tentatively called the “Bird Subdivision.”
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One of the founders of DeNova Homes was indicted last year for bribing an Antioch City Councilmember by handing the councilmember a coffee mug stuffed with $5,000.00 in cash.
Traffic will be a total mess. Where is the environmental impact report?
EIRs on developments like this always come back as “Minimal traffic impact” ….. even the huge development going in at Heather Farms and at a separate site at Shadelands in WC (where there will be hundreds of high densities in each)
Michael,
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Just be happy that you don’t live in North Concord, as there’s a current proposal for 940 housing units to be built on the 59-acre former Coast Guard/Navy housing site on 2-lane East Olivera Road, Olivera Road, and Port Chicago Highway where residents of the surrounding neighborhoods can expect an additional 2,000+ cars multiple times a day.
My math could be wrong…but
5 acres equals 217,800 sq ft
217,800 divided by 40 homes equals 5445 sq ft lots.
Their math ain’t mathing…. Once again what they say and what is reality are two different things. Likely see apartments after the dust settles
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5291-Concord-Blvd-Concord-CA-94521/18353917_zpid/
And that doesn’t include streets.
… and that’s high density imo
From one home on the property to forty homes.
Goodby open space, wildlife, quietness. Hello more noise, traffic, impact on schools, crime…
Welcome to the new LA.
Sign of the times…all for more money, tax dollars, and traffic! That was a beautiful home at one time which stepped into the future back then; now gone along with the cattle, orchards, and horses!
Whoa-oh, Guido…..
Tell me ’bout the good ol’ days
It’s sad to see the quirky architecture fade away for the cookie cutter crap that passes for housing today.
Mike,
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Yes, it is!!!
“…a 40-unit small lot development on an approximately
5.0-acre parcel at 5291 Concord Boulevard.”
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https://concordgis.ci.concord.ca.us/webdevelopment/BirdSubdivisionPlans.pdf
Page 11 gives lot dimensions, disappointing . . . . . . .
Great News for the MDUSD – Developer fees benefit the schools.
You trust MDUSD to spend it well?
Maybe a Starbucks and another McDonalds will be built there, too!