Developers are proposing about 170 residential units, including a mix of housing types, on 71 acres near the 5600 block of South College Road, according to plans submitted to New Hanover County.

The development, in the planning stages by a Cameron company, Whiskey-Navajo Development Partners, and Paramounte Engineering, has not yet been formally named, said Hill Rogers, broker in charge with Cameron Management Inc.

The plans considered Wednesday by the county's Technical Review Committee for the development include 88 single-family home lots, 26 duplex units and 56 townhome units. In addition to South College Road, the undeveloped site where the homes would be built is bordered by Navaho and Mohican trails, plans show.  

"We've been very successful with the townhomes, and the duplexes will be just another price point or option . . . a slightly smaller product," Rogers said. "We think there's a demand for it."

The successful townhomes Rogers was referring to are in The Forks at Barclay, one of the residential components of the master-planned mixed-use Barclay project in midtown Wilmington.
 
The county TRC voted 5-0 on Wednesday to continue the discussion about the Whiskey-Navajo project until the the panel meets in October. The panel is waiting on additional information about the plan, including transportation impact analysis (TIA) recommendations and a tree survey, among other items, before making a decision, said Sam Burgess, senior planner for New Hanover.

The pace of plan submissions for new housing developments in the unincorporated portions of the county have slowed in recent months, with the Whiskey-Navajo project being the first county planners have seen since around the first of July, Burgess said.