| By Big Radio News Staff |
The city of Janesville paves the way for another three-dozen planned housing starts.
They’d range from a planned expansion of 14 duplex homes south of Blackbridge Road and the Blackbridge Hills Recreation area — to 28 lots for bigger homes that would sit on an acre or two of land on the city’s far east edge.
The plan commission gave a provisional nod for conditional use on a development of seven duplex-style homes — 14 units in all — on 5 acres alongside a planned expansion of Prairie Avenue.
It’s just south of the Blackbridge Hills Recreation area and near an area Lycon uses to mine sand and gravel.
City officials say duplexes are an appropriate housing type in a neighborhood that transitions from low-density single-family housing on the sough to a former landfill and sand and gravel pit to the north.
The stretch of Prairie Avenue already has a few single-story duplex homes. The new plan would be a continuation of that style of homes — including units with three bedrooms, two baths and a back patio.
A separate developer also got a preliminary OK for a plat map for a set of larger-format homes on 28 multi-acre parcels just east of city limits, along Henke Road, in the town of Harmony.
