After hitting the brakes in 2022, a luxury-home builder is moving forward on a proposal to build hundreds of homes in fast-growing northwest Meridian despite neighbors’ trepidation.
Toll Southwest LLC, a subsidiary of Toll Brothers, has applied to build a 517-home subdivision, called Dayspring, on 143 acres at the southeast corner of Ustick and McDermott roads. The proposal also includes 14 lots for retail and offices, application materials filed with the city show.
The developer plans to turn six parcels of rural residential and agricultural land, now owned by a Utah mink farming company, into the residential and commercial development. Together, the parcels were valued at over $1.7 million last year, according to the Ada County Assessor’s Office. Four homes and “accessory structures” now on the site would be removed, the application’s narrative letter said…