Collierville board approves 60 townhomes

A look at the Villages at Shelby Station project

Developments planned for Houston Levee Road continue with an addition of 60 townhomes headed to the area.

The Villages at Shelby Station went back before the Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen Monday, about a month after the board tabled the development agreement over concerns about setbacks, fencing and landscaping.

This time, the board of mayor and aldermen unanimously approved a development agreement for townhomes at the Villages at Shelby Station, a 12-acre project south of the Shelby Drive and Houston Levee Road intersection across from the 94-acre Lockwood Planned Development.

Developer Shelby Station Development plans to make Villages at Shelby Station fee simple, or for sale, townhomes, with one dwelling unit on each lot, for a total of 20 triplexes.

Each unit will look different as the developer plans to change the color and brick for the buildings.

Fencing of the property consumed most of the project’s discussion at the meeting with concerns on whether to embrace a three-rail open fence, a sixfoot tall solid wooden fence or an iron fence.

Another issue bothered Alderman John Worley.

“I’ve been thinking about this, the second access is something that bothers me,” Worley said Monday when addressing the applicant’s representative John Mccarty of Mccarty Granberry Engineering. “We haven’t approved it.”

Worley said since the development only has one access point off of Houston Levee each unit should have a sprinkler system, which Mccarty said is already the plan.

The project will include a fence and gate along Houston Levee Road, fourfoot front yard buffers, two retention basins with fountains, 32 parking spaces, a Greenbelt extension along the north side of the property and about two acres of usable open space.

The developer expects the construction of the single-phase project to begin this month and end in the spring.

The board previously approved the planned development in 2004 for quadplex-style homes but Shelby Station Development did not make substantial changes to the site. The developer went back in May to the planning commission where it recommended approval for townhomes.

The project does not need to go back before the board again for site plans.

Dima Amro covers the suburbs for The Commercial Appeal and can be reached at Dima.amro@commercialappeal.com.