Beginning a little over a year ago, the Westgate Addition Project is now nearly finished. Most infrastructure and paving have been completed, and a final walk through by Auburn’s Community Redevelopment Authority is scheduled for Thursday, August 21.
While the area technically includes 39 residential lots, 36 of those are going to be for sale once the area is considered finished. Of those 36, 16 will be single family flat lots. 13 will be single family walkout lots, and the remaining 7 lots will be multi-family lots, which will be sold in pairs of two and one group of three. “We wanted to keep things local when deciding how to go about selling these properties,” said Katy Billings. Crystal Dunekacke added that “The lots will be divided up and ‘bundled’ into similarly valued packages that participating local realtors will be given to sell for the city.” While the lots will be sold by different entities in Auburn, they will all be available to view on a single website, which will show the lot as well as the information for the realtor responsible for it.
Lots sold will not have attached assessments on pavement, water and wastewater, or other infrastructure. They will include a number of covenants that buyers and builders will be required to abide by, however, included a 6-month timespan between the purchase of a lot and the beginning of construction on said lot. Lots will also be required to have a residential property built on them, with one buyer not being allowed to buy two lots, build on one and use the second as a yard. Buyers will be responsible for the removal of trees on the lots they buy, as well as integrating sidewalks onto their properties.
