{"id":450933,"date":"2026-09-02T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450933\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:12:31","slug":"subdivision-with-180-homes-planned-for-38-acre-parcel-near-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450933\/","title":{"rendered":"Subdivision with 180 homes planned for 38-acre parcel near Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1140\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fowler-crown-development-site.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"property\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">A nearly 40-acre parcel near Sunnyside and Sumner avenues in Fowler would become a 180-home subdivision with the cancellation of a Williamson Act contract. Google Earth image<\/p>\n<p>A 38-acre agricultural parcel just outside Fowler could become 180 single-family homes after the Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved the cancellation of the property\u2019s Williamson Act contract Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The board approved the cancellation of Agricultural Land Conservation Contract No. 8271 for property located on the southwest corner of South Sunnyside and East Sumner avenues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fowler City Council approved the tentative tract map and annexation Feb. 3, pending the county\u2019s cancellation of the agricultural contract. Fowler\u2019s General Plan designates the property for medium-low-density residential development, while Fresno County\u2019s General Plan designates it for agricultural use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The applicant, property owner Joseph Crown, will pay a $477,250 cancellation fee before the property can be officially annexed into the city of Fowler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crown serves as president of Crown Homes, a Fresno-based homebuilder, which will be developing the project.<\/p>\n<p>The project would also include about 1.9 acres of parkland and 1.1 acres of trail alignment, r<a href=\"https:\/\/midvalleytimes.com\/article\/city-council\/2026\/02\/06\/fowler-gets-ahead-on-proposed-housing-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">eported the Mid-Valley Times in February<\/a>. Proposed lot sizes range from 5,000-12,881 square feet. The homes would start at around $380,000, Mid-Valley reported.<\/p>\n<p>County staff found the project met all five findings required for cancellation, including that the development would create a contiguous urban pattern and that no similarly sized, non-contracted parcels within Fowler\u2019s sphere of influence were available for the proposed use.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The property is currently zoned for exclusive agricultural use with a 20-acre minimum parcel size. The Williamson Act limits contracted land to agricultural operations and certain compatible uses, prompting the cancellation request to allow residential development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nearly 40-acre parcel near Sunnyside and Sumner avenues in Fowler would become a 180-home subdivision with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[178270,178271,112,178272,178273,114,113,178274],"class_list":["post-450933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-crown-homes","tag-fowler-homes","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county-development","tag-fresno-county-housing","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-williamson-act-cancellation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}