City council gives final plat approval for the second phase of The Ridge

Blaine City Council unanimously gave final plat approval for the second phase of The Ridge at Harbor Hills during its February 27 meeting. The approval will give the go ahead for 110 single-family and multi-family homes. The second phase, which is on the northwest end of The Ridge, will also include utility improvements, public roads, trails and recreational areas.

The 110 homes include 78 single-family residential lots and eight fourplexes. Home construction could start as soon as May or June, said Craig Parkinson, principal civil engineer at Cascade Engineering Group. Phase three infrastructure will be built this summer and phase four could be constructed in 2023 or 2024, he said.

City council gave preliminary plat approval for the entire  subdivision, formerly known as East Maple Ridge, in June 2020. The preliminary plat included 353 units that will be built in 13 phases. The second division that council approved includes phases four through seven and part of phase 11.

The Ridge is an 88-acre property located north of H Street Road, east of Jerome Street and west of North Harvey Road. It  is  directly to the west of the East Harbor Hills, a 144-acre property also being developed by Skip and Katie Jansen. Grandis Pond, a housing development that will have nearly 1,000 homes when built out, is east of East Harbor Hills.

The plat infrastructure in The Ridge’s second division is more than 80 percent complete, according to city documents. 

Currently, over a dozen homes are occupied in The Ridge and over 100 people are working on developing and constructing the subdivision. Jansen told The Northern Light in January that he expects The Ridge to be complete by the end of 2025.