WATERVILLE — An Augusta-based contractor is planning to build 13 single-family homes on Meadow Drive, between Interstate 95 and Country Club Road, in Waterville.

Brandon Roberge, the president of Newman Homes, has bought about 40 acres from developer Paul Lussier and plans to build the homes on one corner of the property, to be named Newman Homes at Fieldstone Meadows.

Each house would have two bedrooms and one bath. Those who buy the houses in the development will not own the land on which the homes sit.

Plans include using a right-of-way, building a road and creating two roads, Elijah Lane and Jasmine Lane, according to Jeff Allen, an engineer with A.E. Hodsdon Consulting Engineers of Waterville. The property is in the Residential-D zone, which allows for such development, he said.

Allen said the development is expected to have access to city water and sewer, provided by the Fieldstone Gardens Homeowners Association, which already exists and represents property and homeowners in the area. Much of the infrastructure for water and sewer was in place when Roberge bought the property, but details must be worked out as to how to tap into the lines, Allen said.

“This is a relatively small project,” Allen told the Waterville Planning Board last Tuesday. “It’s less than 1 acre, so this part of it will not require (Maine Department of Environmental Protection) approval.”

Allen said that when the developer plans to add more homes, such approval would be needed. He also said Roberge would be applying for a Maine State Housing grant for the current development.

Lussier, a former chair of the Waterville Planning Board, told the board he developed homes in that area for more than 20 years and was not intending to sell the property, but when he got older and his wife got sick, they stopped building three years ago.

A former code enforcement officer for Waterville and for the town of Oakland, Lussier said times change and if he were to build houses now, they and the lots would be smaller.

“This is an expansion of what we’ve already started,” he said.

Some members of the Fieldstone Gardens Homeowners Association expressed concern about whether the future homeowners would be part of the association or a new one. Roberge said details are being worked out and meetings planned to discuss whether they would be part of the existing association, whether a new one would be formed or a sub association would be developed.

Resident Jim Leclair said the association spent $300,000 to install a new water system, with each homeowner putting in thousands of dollars, so they own and maintain it. He asked how such a new development could be approved without an agreement in place as to how that would work.

Board member David Johnson and Chair Samantha Burdick said a condition of the board’s approval of the project would be that the Kennebec Water District and Waterville Sewerage District will be provided documents confirming the ability of the new homeowners to join the existing homeowner’s association, and the existing association accepts it. The developer and association must come to an agreement, they said.

“You guys are rushing to get this thing done, but he doesn’t have an agreement yet,” Leclair said of Roberge.

Burdick noted that construction cannot begin until there is an agreement.

Dan Bradstreet, Waterville’s director of code enforcement, confirmed that no building permits would be issued until an agreement is in place.

The board voted 7-0 to approve the project, with Burdick noting that the city ordinance says the developer has a year to begin construction after board approval, and two years to complete it.

Asked when construction is expected to begin, Roberge said it depends on the Maine State Housing application, but the current plan is to build 13 houses in 12 months.