Debate over a subdivision planned just south of Gilbert and Queen Creek roads dominated last week’s Chandler City Council meeting, after residents who live north of the proposed complex complained that developers had given preferential treatment to the “ritzier” neighborhood to the south.
Five people attended to dispute elements of the Belmont Estates plan, which calls for a 91-lot, single-family subdivision with a mix of one- and two-story homes. In front of the council were requests to annex the roughly 34-acre parcel into the city and to change its zoning designation to be compatible with residential development.
Developers previously had agreed that homebuilder Ashton Woods Homes would construct only single-story homes along the planned subdivision’s southern boundary, which it shares with custom-home community Whitewing at Krueger. When residents of Sunwest Trails, the neighborhood to the north, requested the same promise along Belmont Estates’ northern boundary, developers agreed only to a stipulation that they would not build more than two two-story houses in a row.
