Homes planned for 71-acre site near Melrose Sprinter station
Print 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...