A new 173 single-family subdivision may be in the city’s future following action taken by the Crown Point City Council. The city council on Monday gave unanimous initial approval to an ordinance seeking a petition of annexation for 112 acres on parcels known as 13209, 13209 and 13420 Delaware Stre et. If final annexation is approved by city officials, plans are for developers to return to city officials to seek residential zoning to build single-family homes there on a subdivision which will be called Crystal Grove, Todd Kleven said. Kleven serves as vice president of Land Acquisition for Lennar Corp., based in Schaumburg, Illinois. Plans by his company are to build the subdivision into what he termed three products, including homes on the east side of Delaware, to be called Horizon, which would be priced in the $420,000 average range. Other homes planned include those in the middle of the subdivision to be called Landmark and priced in the $480,000 range. Homes on the west side of Delaware would be what he termed estate homes and would be priced at $650,00 on average and on up. Plans for the subdivision also call for walking paths and two parks, Kleven said. Kleven said if annexation and the zoning change are approved, Lennar hopes to break ground later this year. “I think we are in line with the city’s vision,” Kleven said. City Councilman Robert Clemons, R-2nd, said the feedback he has gotten from the majority of Crown Point residents is that they question the need to keep building more houses. They’d like the city to remain the same, such as the more rural one he used to ride his bike and be out in the country. But progress is inevitable, Clemons said. “Everybody wants to come here. We made (Crown Point) the apple on the hill,” Clemons said. In other business, the city council also approved upon initial reading an ordinance granting residential to business park zoning for 6.4 acres at 13306 and 13318 Iowa Street. The council also granted initial approval to a rezoning request from residential to business park zoning for 25.3 acres of land located at Mississippi Parkway. Both requests had received unanimous approval from the Crown Point Plan Commission, said petitioner Jeff Ban of DVG Team. Deborah Laverty is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune. ...read more read less