The Petal Board of Aldermen has given the green light to the upcoming Magnolia Trails Community Subdivision, a neighborhood that will offer more than 80 homes and several amenities off of Corinth Road in the Three-Mile Cutoff area.
Board members voted during the July 18 regular meeting to approve a Planned Unit Development to begin the zoning process for the neighborhood, which had been recently recommended by the Petal Planning Commission.
“We’re making sure to protect the surrounding neighbors, as far as encroaching on the neighborhoods nearby (on issues such as) displacing water and increased traffic on Three-Mile Cutoff,” Ward 3 Alderman Blake Nobles said. “But the developers thus far have spoken with the (Petal) School District, they’ve spoken with (the Public) Works Department, they’ve spoken with us.
“They’ve been very upfront, and they seem like really great guys who are building the kind of neighborhood that we like to see in Petal. We love to see home ownership grow, and so we’re excited for them to get started. We think it’s going to be a pretty solid development overall.”
The Magnolia Trails Community Subdivision, which will be built in phases, will offer the following:
- Single-family, four-bedroom homes ranging from 1,800 to 2,200 square feet;
- Single-family, three-bedroom homes ranging from 1,600 to 1,800 square feet;
- Single-family, three-bedroom garden homes ranging from 1,400 to 1,600 square feet;
- Single-family, three-bedroom townhomes ranging from 1,200 to 1,400 square feet;
- Single-family, two-bedroom townhomes ranging from 900 to 1,200 square feet;
- A community center;
- A lake;
- A walking trail; and
- Pavilion space.
The neighborhood is being developed by K. Moye Land Design and Development and will be that company’s first development in Petal. As of yet, officials do not have an exact timeline on when the project or its phases will be complete, but the process could take three to four years.
“I imagine once they get the PUD and all that, they’ll get started on it pretty quickly,” Nobles said. “I think they’re going to build them basically as they fill up, and so they’ll have a general outline once they have everything done.
“It’ll take some months still before they finalize everything, before they get their plans taken care of for water retention and all that stuff, to make sure it doesn’t affect the surrounding neighborhoods. As far as the progress of the development itself, I’m sure they’ll build it as the houses are being bought, so that could take three or four years – it just depends on the situation.”
