Development plans call for the northwest corner of Kasold Drive and Peterson Road to become one of Lawrence’s largest rental communities.

Lawrence-Douglas County planning staff members are reviewing a plan for Tuckaway North, a mix of 250 single-family, duplex and apartment units that would be located on about 32 acres in northwest Lawrence.

Lawrence-Douglas County planner Sandra Day said developers of the project had indicated plans were for the entire development to be a rental community.

“It definitely would be one of the larger rental communities that we have in Lawrence,” Day said.

The developers are listed as DFC Company and North Forty L.C., both Lawrence companies based out of the office of Gene Fritzel Construction. Lawrence architect Paul Werner is designing the project, but he said the developers weren’t ready to discuss their plans.

Attempts to reach the developers were unsuccessful.

The development is on the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission’s agenda for its meeting tonight, but it is expected to be deferred until at least February at the developers’ request.

The project will have a variety of housing types. Plans filed with city officials call for 16 single-family homes, 122 duplexes and 112 apartment units.

“It is a very unique way that they’re approaching this,” said Day, the planner reviewing the project for the planning department. “It truly is a mixed-use residential development, and that’s relatively rare in Lawrence.

“Lots of times when we see a project, it is all single-family or all duplex or all multifamily, but that’s not the case here.”

Day says developers also are designing the project to be slightly different than a typical rental community. In the plans filed with city officials, developers call the project an “exclusive residential community.”

Both entrances to the development will be gated, and the project will include a 3,000-square-foot clubhouse, a 4,000-square-foot activity building and three swimming pools.

Day says plans also call for most of the living units to have garages, which should eliminate large amounts of on-street parking. Parts of the development would include alleys.

“It brings some neat ideas to the table,” Day said.

But planners are concerned the project also may bring large volumes of traffic to the area.

“There seems to be some pretty significant improvements that need to be made to those roads to handle this type of development, but there are no immediate city plans to make those improvements,” Day said.

She said that might mean the developers will need to improve the roads at their expense before they can proceed with the project.

Developers are asking for planning commissioners to defer consideration until at least February while a traffic study is completed. The study would help determine how much traffic the development would create and how much existing roads could handle.