Developers Tim Perkins and David Autrey will get to build a second subdivision in a new section now moving into the city limits thanks to an annexation request approved by the Cedartown City Commission on Monday night.

The new Prior Station Road neighborhood will feature 14 homes between 1,200 and 1,800 square feet, with lot sizes at the smallest area of 27,000 square feet, or up to an 1.5 acres.

Perkins and Autrey hope to presell their future construction before the homes are even ready to get on the market, and they’re asking for at least $289,900 with several floor plan options available.

The pair are already busy on a development on Branch Street with 14 homes set to begin construction in the coming weeks.

Perkins told the City Commission those houses are moving ahead in around two weeks with groundbreaking expected.

City officials gave their thumbs up to the plan with the caveats of ensuring there were two hydrants available for firefighters to utilize in the worst case scenario of a home catching fire, increasing the circumference of the cul de sac, and design-related requests to keep the houses from becoming too similar to each other.

Commissioner Jessica Payton put it best that she hoped the neighborhood would come with character.

“I just like to see differentiation,” she said.

Perkins explained that typically buyers get multiple customization options with interior and exterior color schemes and siding, but the first three buyers in this new neighborhood on Prior Station Road will get the chance to determine how the trend for the rest of the new homes will go as options will begin to be limited by available materials and costs.

Designs will be flipped around and they’ll stagger floor plans and exterior designs to ensure that no two houses look the same next door to one another.

The new Prior Station Road neighborhood is being annexed into the city limits as a PD-1 development.

The only stipulations were to require that the roadway and cul de sac had to meet city standards, and the designs be reviewed by the city for approval as a PD-1 development. Those conditions were already completed prior to the vote.

Monday’s vote came after a second public hearing on the annexation request. No one came to speak out against the new neighborhood during the session.