Newport could see new multifamily housing

Red Rock Villas pitched to Plan Commission April 11

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The City of Newport could see new multifamily housing just off the Glen Road exit, if a concept shown to the city’s Plan Commission April 11 takes concrete form.

Dependent in part on a Planned Use Development (PUD), the Red Rock Villas would be a “market-rate, build to hold multifamily project” in Newport.

With details contained in Plan Commission documents, the 143-unit multifamily development on 8.34 acres would be situated along Seventh Avenue, and called the Red Rock Villas.

With two phases and four buildings included in the plan, Red Rock Villas would have two basic floor plan designs.

The first-floor plan, called a courtyard villa, would be smaller and range from 1 bedroom, 1 bath 805 square feet all the way to 831 square feet with two bedrooms and 1 1/2 baths, complete with garage parking, along with a private courtyard entrance and porch. Courtyard villas would be one level at grade living.

The second design, styled a promenade villa, would be larger, with floor plans ranging from 1,392 square feet with two bedrooms, a den, and 2 1/2 baths, all the way to 1,545 square feet with three bedroom and a den along with 2 1/2 baths, the floor plan for promenade villas split into two levels with two garage parking spaces, the second floor ranging from 646 square feet all the way to 799 square feet.

A main entrance porch for the promenade villa would be located off the outdoor public promenade. But that’s not all!

Included in the prospective multifamily design would be a net zero energy source design, using solar panels to help offset the electrical grid use. In all the solar panels spread across four buildings would constitute a 720-kW solar farm.

A traffic study may be required by the city to explore traffic impacts, while the building developer would need to go through a process including preliminary plat, Planned Use Development, and Final Plat approval before the project can take either form or definitive shape.