Alcoa planning commissioners recently approved the site plan for a proposed three-townhome installation near New Midland Plaza. The development will add “missing middle housing” to Alcoa’s offerings, according to city staff.
If completed according to drawings shown to the planning commission during its Thursday, Aug. 15 meeting, the development would sit at the corner of Lindsay Street and Avenue B, a few thousand feet from the Plaza. The site once housed a single-family home but is now vacant. Each of the future homes would be sold individually.
The three attached houses would each sport a one-car garage, a two-story layout and a tree in the front yard with a sidewalk in front.
“This corridor was envisioned to be multi-family, attached row housing, so it would allow flexibility to actually light the sidewalks in the future,” City Planner Jeremy Pearson told commissioners during their work session the day before.
Lindsay Street and its neighboring roads already boast plenty of housing but are adjacent to a retail-oriented area. Nearby New Midland Plaza is already undergoing renovations, and Kroger, South Hall Road and more are a few thousand feet in the opposite direction. Next door lies a dentist’s office.
The area, known as the Luther Jackson subdivision, is predominantly full of single-family homes, with some businesses scattered throughout. Many of those structures are beginning to age. The home next door, for example, was built in 1950, according to data from the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.
Alcoa City Manager Bruce Applegate told commissioners Thursday that locations like this are excellent sites for further development since they’re already hooked up to utilities. That keeps the price of redevelopment down and makes projects more accessible to smaller developers.
“It’s very nice to see how we’re working with small developers to be able to shoehorn some of this nice much-needed housing product into some of these lots,” he said, adding, “We’re able to hit some of this middle housing that’s being pushed for not only our state but the country, and that’s a plus for this area.”
If the houses are constructed as drawn, they’ll each have parking for three vehicles with a common area to the north. The site is set back from the road with room for sidewalk expansions if further development makes it necessary.
On Thursday, commissioners approved breaking the lot into four separate pieces — one for each home with a fourth for the common area.
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