Will Cramahe open Phase 2?

Will Cramahe Tonwship soon be opening up phase 2 of the Colborne Creek development? And how will it proceed?

Several August home sales have brought the first phase of the subdivision to the magic 75% sales mark. In the agreement which ended in January, 2009 the work on services for the second phase was to begin when 75% of the 39 homes in phase one were sold and 50% occupied. The builders must have met their quotas in the expiring agreement. In 2008 the builders and the township admitted the quotas for the builders were unrealistic.

There is no quota in the current agreement made in November, 2008 with the four builders involved and the 75% target number was dropped too. The new agreement came into force in January, 2009.

In November, 2008 Mayor Marc Coombs advised the builders that Cramahe will have to make a decision at some point (about the second phase). It may decide the best approach is to sell the second phase as a block and leave all development to the buyer of the lots.

Builder Jim Rutherford suggested that council give the builders a chance to finish Phase One before looking at the second section.

Mayor Coombs wondered that the builders might not want to service the second phase.

Builder Mike Voskamp felt they could look at that when the first phase is farther along.

The township Director of Development in 2008, Becky Bonisteel predicted the second phase of 35 homes would begin sometime in 2010.