Apartments, chalets: Meridian development aims at tenants, buyers without school-age kids
A Boise developer seeks to build 216 small apartments for rent, and 44 duplexes and 18 three-plexes for single-family homeowners, in the Ten Mile Road area, north of Interstate 84.
Jim Conger’s Conger Group proposes to build a development named Newkirk at 4250 W. Franklin Road, along the north side of Franklin Road and east of Black Cat Road in West Meridian.
“We have thoughtfully designed a mix of single-family and multifamily dwellings ... that will add to the housing mix within the surrounding neighborhoods and will add diversity of Meridian’s available housing opportunities,” the company wrote in its application to the city.
The developer anticipates that most tenants and buyers would not have children, so there would be only a small impact on enrollment in the West Ada School District, where overcrowding is a problem in multiple schools.
“Due to the small size of home(s) and apartments ... it is anticipated that there will be few school-age students generated by the development,” the application said. “The students ... will attend Chaparral Elementary, Meridian Middle School and the Meridian High School boundaries, all of which are under capacity.”
Conger Group describes the two-story homes for sale as chalets. The chalet section of the subdivision would include a clubhouse with a workout center, a pool, changing rooms, and a dog park with a cleanup station.
Other subdivision amenities would include a three-quarter-acre park and a half mile of paved, tree-shaded, 5-foot-wide pedestrian sidewalks across both sides of a street named North San Marco Way to be built within the subdivision.
“Homeowners will have access to on-site amenities such as well-appointed parks, playgrounds, walking pathways and attractive landscaping,” the application said. “Off-site amenities include access to a nearby charter school [the Compass Public Charter School], retail, and commercial businesses in the Ten Mile area. ... Additional rooftops in this quickly developing area of Meridian will help support the commercial and retail uses along the Ten Mile Interchange Neighborhood Center.”
The property is owned by Chris Nolan of Lansing Farms LLC in Eagle. It would need to be annexed by Meridian and rezoned before construction could begin.
A public hearing is scheduled by the Planning and Zoning Commission at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at Meridian City Hall.
This story was originally published January 13, 2023 at 11:48 AM.
