The Casa Grande Planning and Development Department is seeing an uptick in single-family housing permits.
During his report to the Planning and Zoning Commission during the May meeting, Planning and Development Director Paul Tice said, “The observation I’d make on the building permit data is for March we had a spike in the number of permits for new single-family homes. It’s 23.”
He added, “Over the last five or six years, it’s been averaging about eight to 10 a month, so that was a pretty big spike.”
This number is compared to six during January and nine in February and rose to 14 for April.
“We’re going to continue to watch that trend,” Tice said. “D.R. Horton continues building in Desert Sky Ranch. They’ve had a lot of homes under construction in Desert Sky. They’re building in Mission Valley.”
He added, “I called them D.R. Horton, but they’re rebranding here in Casa Grande under Express Homes by D.R. Horton, so they’re Express Homes, but they are building. And Meritage is building in Mission Royale.”
D.R. Horton has been buying and building on selected residential lots in subdivisions that were never completed.
