REDMOND — As many as 40 new homes could be built near Ridgeview High School by June after the Redmond City Council on Tuesday night approved the 33.82-acre Pavlicek Development Master Plan.

Chad Bettesworth, Pahlisch Homes’ director of land development, said with the council’s OK of the master plan and rezoning of the land, his company hopes to have Phase 1 of the Pavlicek Neighborhood, which would include single-family homes and town homes, done by the start of summer 2016. The neighborhood, which is expected to include 224 total units — 114 single-family homes, 26 town homes and 84 apartments — will be done over four phases, according to Bettesworth.

The next step for the development, a cooperative project between landowner John Pavlicek and Pahlisch Homes, is to have Redmond annex the land into its city limits. The new neighborhood, the first to be built within the city’s recent Southwest Area Plan, will also include 4.38 acres of open space.

“It’s a great project,” Mayor George Endicott said after the council approved the plan unanimously. “It’ll really serve the south end of Redmond.”

The development, which will border the Central Oregon Irrigation District canal on its east side, adheres to Redmond’s great neighborhood planning principles, said Scott Woodford, an associate planner with the city.

“There’s a diversity of housing options there,” Woodford stated in his presentation to councilors. “Affordable to high end. … They’re trying to represent a broad region of the market and we think they’ve succeeded in doing that.”

Councilors also added three properties to the city’s historic landmark registry Tuesday. In addition to a craftsman bungalow home at 349 SW 12th St., the City Council agreed to designate Redmond’s original freight and passenger train depots as historically significant, buildings that were built in 1913 and 1911, respectively.

In other actions, the city agreed to enter into a nonexclusive agreement with the Central Oregon real estate company NAI Cascade. Jodi Burch, the city’s deputy director of central services, explained that working with a real estate company could help expedite deals for the city in some cases. The agreement allows the city to work with NAI Cascade on a per-deal basis and gives Redmond the flexibility to work with another real estate company if it chooses so. In Oregon, real estate companies can represent both the seller and buyer. Presumably, if the city was interested in a property in which NAI Cascade represented the seller, Redmond officials would work with another real estate company.

“Time to time, the city is involved in real estate deals,” Burch said. “A real estate company will make sure we get maximum value for properties we sell, for example, and in some cases help us keep our anonymity longer when we’re interested in properties.”

The new deal would not stop the city from negotiating deals by itself when staff saw that as the most efficient option, Burch added.

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