Ventana Lakes could get nearly 70 new homes

This map shows a possible housing development that would add to the Ventana Lakes master plan in Peoria. /Submitted

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By Philip Haldiman | Independent Newsmedia

A large retirement community in the West Valley is on track to get bigger.

The Peoria Planning Commission recommended a proposal for the City Council to rezone 17.3 acres in Ventana Lakes to allow for 69 new homes, June 1.

Council will make the final decision at a public meeting later this summer.

The proposal includes two parcels — one 7.12 acres and one 10.2 acres — at 107th Avenue and Beardsley Road that would be rezoned from commercial to a residential Planned Area Development. The proposal includes frontage improvements, such as additional sidewalk connections that provide increased pedestrian safety to the existing neighborhoods.

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