The northwest corner of Kasold Drive and Peterson Road could become one of Lawrence’s largest rental communities.

Lawrence-Douglas County planning staff members are reviewing a plan for Tuckaway North, a mix of 241 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 LC, 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.

The project will have a variety of housing types. Plans filed with city officials call for 16 single-family homes, 136 duplex/townhomes and 89 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.”

A new 241-unit rental community called Tuckaway North is planned for the northwest corner of Kasold Drive and Peterson Road. This view looks north from Fall Creek Road at the north entrance to Fall Creek Farms and across Peterson Road to the planned site.

Both entrances to the development will be gated, and the project will include a 3,000-square-foot clubhouse, a 4,830-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.