Lennar proposes 192 single-family homes in two projects in south Miami-Dade County, as developers continue to target the area.
Miami-based Lennar wants to develop Rodan Estates with 138 homes on a 20-acre site on the southeast corner of Southwest 220th Street and Southwest 133rd Court near Goulds, as well as a second project with 54 homes on a 9.2-acre site on the southeast corner of Southwest 212th Street and Southwest 127th Avenue in Goulds, according to applications filed to the county late last month. Both sites are in unincorporated Miami-Dade.
Lennar, led by co-CEOs Stuart Miller and Jon Jaffe, has a purchase contract for the Rodan Estates site for an undisclosed price. The property is owned by Redlands Grove –– led by Joel, Franklin and Ilana Goldenstein and Luis Rodan –– and Citinet Aventura, led by Rodan, according to state records. The Goldensteins and Rodan are based in Pinecrest.
Rodan Estates will consist of detached cluster homes on six adjacent lots, including two at 13250 and 13330 Southwest 224th Street. The other four lots have no addresses.
Generally, cluster homes are grouped together and share open spaces.
Rodan Estates will offer three-bedroom and four-bedroom homes, with 25 percent of the site designated for open spaces, according to the application.
The proposal, which was filed by the property owners, asks for a rezoning from “agricultural” and “estate use modified” to “planned area development.” A separate application requests a land use change from “estate density residential” to “low-density residential with a DI-1 increase.”
For the second project, Lennar is asking for a pre-application meeting with Miami-Dade administrators, which is generally requested to gauge county staff’s input before an official application is filed.
Next, a request to rezone the site from “agricultural district” to “modified single family residential district” will be filed.
The development site is owned by Orlando Villacis, who filed the application. Lennar is listed on the site plan.
The homebuilder is among a crop of developers seizing on south Miami-Dade’s vast supply of buildable land available at a discount compared to sites in the county’s urban core. South Miami-Dade consists of Goulds, Princeton, Leisure City and Naranja, as well as the municipalities of Homestead and Florida City.
In Homestead, Lennar wants to build 119 single-family homes on a 58-acre site on the southwest corner of Southwest 296th Street and Southwest 192nd Avenue. In September, the firm dropped $16.6 million on a 38.2-acre site at the intersection of Southwest 162nd Avenue and Southwest 276th Street in Homestead, with plans for 105 single-family homes.
Other developers with south Miami-Dade projects include Pinnacle, which wants to build a 110-unit affordable apartment building for seniors on the southeast corner of South Dixie Highway and Southwest 250th Street in Princeton. And MAS AJP proposes 293 rowhouses on the northeast corner of South Dixie Highway and Southwest 280th Street at the Mandarin Park mixed-use complex in Naranja.