114-Home Development Taking Shape

    A planned 114-home development near Southside Umatilla is the latest plan to come alive in town, though formal action on the development has been pushed back a few weeks. The development, named Woodsong, sits on a previously approved but never developed site at the southeast corner of Pine Street and Tenth Avenue.
    The property, on just over 39 acres, was initially approved for houses in 2005, but never was developed. Today, the site is eyed to have just over four units per acre, with housing lots proposed at 54 feet wide by 120 feet deep. Setbacks between house lots will be five feet, five inches.
    The development was set to come before the Umatilla City Council on Tuesday night, but was tabled as staff and the developer hash out final details, including landscape and fencing.
    The development is the second in the area to be resuscitated in recent years. The recently approved Magnolia Pointe, which is located south of CR 450A in the same area, was also approved previous to the housing market crashing over a decade ago.