Land Development for New Neighborhood Nears Completion

Parents who dropped off their students passed by a new $2.13 million house at the corner of Verna Drive and Waples Mill Road this week.

The house is a model for the 28-home neighborhood being built on 45.6 acres behind the school. Winchester Homes, based in Bethesda, Md., for the neighborhood, named Reserve at Waples Mill, earlier this year. The new Oakton community is being built under the company's Camberley Homes brand.

Crews have nearly finished clearing the land and will soon begin infrastructure work, such as water lines, before paving in late October or November, said Rich Mehlberg, community operations manager with Camberley Homes.

With school beginning earlier this week, the builder has instructed the crews to be good neighbors — and not only when parents are on line to drop off or pick up their children.

"We've had meetings with all our subcontractors that their awareness be as heightened as possible," Mehlberg said. "It's about driving slow, checking their surroundings and respectful to the parents who are dropping off and picking up the kids. We've requested and mandated they lay off the horn and stay as respectful as possible."

Parents, staff and construction workers will have to share Verna Drive. Three roads will provide access into the subdivision: Verna Drive, part of which already exists as an entrance to the parking lot at the school; Waples Glen Court, currently a cul-de-sac with six homes; and Pine Tree Drive toward the south of the property.

So far, three lots, and the model homes that will sit on top of them, have been sold. The timeframe for when the homes will be built depends on when land development is completed, but Camberley Homes expects to complete home construction in 2013. Once land development is finished, homeowners can expect their homes to begin construction about four months after buying. 

Homeowners can choose from three base plans, then customize the home to suit their family's needs. Pricing starts at about $1.5 million and rises according to the customizations homeowners choose. 

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Clarification: This article has been modified to clarify Camberley Homes, a brand under Winchester Homes, is building the new Oakton community and to clearly state new homes will be completed in 2013.