Builder Scales Back Development Plan

A Los Angeles-based home builder has agreed to reduce the number of houses it plans to build on a 21-acre parcel near Adolfo Camarillo High School--a move intended to improve traffic flow and ease the construction in a nearby neighborhood.

The Pardee Construction Co. has applied to the Camarillo Planning Commission to reconfigure a proposed 96-unit subdivision and lower the number of homes to 91.

Street patterns, lot sizes and other aspects of the development will be altered from an original map previously approved for construction by city officials.

The commission is expected to approve the application at its meeting tonight.

City engineers had requested some changes to the street design. Company executives chose to change the lot layout because construction of a nearby subdivision also being built by Pardee started sooner than expected.

The subdivision is planned on vacant property between Mission Oaks Boulevard and Adolfo Road, just north of the high school.