A 126-acre development south of Indrio Road cleared its final hurdle this week when the St. Lucie County Commission voted 3-2 to approve The Club at Indrio Creek, capping more than a year of back-and-forth over how many homes could fit on the site. The project, proposed by Terra Solo Group, will bring 332 housing units — 210 townhouses and 122 single-family homes — to land between Emerson Avenue and Seminole Road.
The vote on Tuesday marked the end of a long process that began with a much larger plan. According to Treasure Coast News, Terra Solo Group initially planned 420 housing units before paring that down to 362, and eventually to the 332-unit version commissioners ultimately approved. The developer needed the commission to rezone the land from AG-1 to Planned Towns & Villages, a designation within the county’s Towns, Villages & Countryside Overlay District, according to Hometown News Treasure Coast.
It took more than a year for developers to work through the county’s requirements for the project, the station’s report notes. County planning staff and the Terra Solo team held months of meetings and negotiations before reaching the final design, and the latest version of the plan still carried requests for waivers of four requirements.
A Vote Split Along Code-Compliance Lines
Commissioners James Clasby and Erin Lowry voted against approval, while the majority sided with the project. Clasby said the site was too small for what the project required and that he was uncomfortable advancing it, per the same account. Lowry argued that rezoning the project would open a Pandora’s box and said it was not the board’s vision…