Plum Council has attached a few conditions to its approval of the first phase of a three-phase, 158-home housing development.

Council voted 6-0 to give final approval to the 35-house first phase of Patriot Estates, a development that would cover about 140 acres off Davidson Road.

Council’s approval followed a recommendation from the borough’s planning commission in January. Councilman Dan Hadley was absent.

Among council’s conditions are that the sanitary sewer must be located in the utility right of way; that the three previously granted subdivisions used to form the Planned Residential Development be recorded; and that other approvals, such as those from the state Department of Environmental Protection, the Allegheny County Conservation District and the Plum Borough Municipal Authority, be submitted to the borough.

The developer, John Spagnolo, also will have to address a number of items and comments from review letters to the satisfaction of the borough’s engineer. Those items and comments were not detailed.

The homes will be built by D.R. Horton, which is headquartered in Arlington, Texas. The company bills itself as the largest homebuilder in the nation.

Spagnolo could not be reached for comment after council gave its approval.

Spagnolo previously said the developer plans to begin work as soon as weather allows and anticipates having all 35 houses under roof within a year.

Development would continue with the 26-house second phase and 97-house third phase in quick succession.

Spagnolo said the houses will be 2,200 to 2,600 square feet on quarter-acre lots. The two-story houses have three floor plan options and eight different facades.

Prices would be in the $400,000 to $500,000 range.

The second phase would include a gated, emergency access connection to Aspen Drive in the Willow Village neighborhood off Saltsburg Road.

Many residents of Willow Village, currently a dead-end neighborhood, opposed the linkage.

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