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More than 300 homes are planned for one of Oceanside’s last large undeveloped pieces of land, 71 acres near a Sprinter train station at the city’s border with Vista.
Half of the property at the intersection of Oceanside Boulevard and Melrose Drive would be set aside as permanent open space and protected as habitat for native species of plants and animals, said the developer’s representative, Dan Niebaum of the Lightfoot Planning Group in Carlsbad.
Thirty-three single-family homes, 268 townhouses and a single, two-story, 20,000-square-foot commercial structure would be built on the southern end of the property nearest the intersection and the Melrose Sprinter Station. The site is at the western edge of the Vista Sports Park, a 16-acre complex of football, soccer, baseball and softball fields that opened in 2010 at a cost of almost $19 million.