A Texas-based homebuilder submitted plans to build a single-family subdivision with 149 home lots in rural southwestern Duval County.
The Florida division of LGI Homes filed an application Dec. 10 with the St. Johns River Water Management District for the project, called Treeline Trails.
The plans show the homes would be built on 30 acres of forest land at McClelland Road and Forest Trail Boulevard, slightly north of the border of Duval and Clay counties and south of State Road 228.
The area is a distance from any major development. The closest town is Baldwin, about 10 miles away.
The owner of the property is listed as Lee Smith of Timber Forest Trail Investments LLC, based at 9996 Gate Parkway N. in Jacksonville.
The applicant is listed as Alex Azan, land acquisition manager for LGI Homes-Florida, based in a Tampa office.
Smith and Azan did not return calls or emails for comment.
David Taylor, vice president of Jacksonville-based Dunn & Associates Inc., is listed as the project engineer. Brian Spahr of LG2 Environmental Solutions Inc. is listed as the environmental consultant.
LGI Homes has three residential projects in Northeast Florida, according to the company website. They are Cypress Pointe in Westside, Lumber Creek in North Jacksonville and Rolling Hills in Orange Park.
LGI, headquartered in Houston where the company was founded, builds homes in 14 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.