For decades, a collection of homeowners living on picturesque estates in south Broken Arrow have walked outside to enjoy plentiful wildlife and lush greenery. The FFA farm’s barns and buildings lended to the neighborhood’s rural character.
But that changed last year when PSO sold its 49-acre easement near 101st Street and County Line Road to Calara Land OK, a subsidiary of the publicly owned national housing giant Lennar Corp. The price was $2.2 million, after the tract previously had no listed value and was being rented out for soccer matches.
Last year, Calara unveiled plans to build more than 160 single-family homes on the tract, with no plans to leave a landscape buffer between the project and existing homes. A rezoning request was approved by the Broken Arrow Planning Commission and the City Council in June…