CRANBERRY TWP — More planned residential developments are coming to the township as the board of supervisors gave final approval to two plans.

The supervisors approved a six-building apartment complex on Brandt Drive behind the old Auction Barn building. The complex will have 276 apartment units on 13.8 acres.

As part of the plan, the developers will extend Brandt Drive to Thompson Park/Executive Drive, where a mini-roundabout will be built.

The buildings will have ground-level parking with four stories of apartments on top. There will be a community center, outdoor pool, trail system, sidewalks and the township's first protected bike lane.

The board also gave final approval for Traditions of America to put a retirement community on a 55.1-acre site along the north side of Rochester Road at the Beaver-Butler county line. The two phase development will have 103 homes for adults ages 55 and older.

The residents of the community will buy and customize their own homes, but the grounds and road will be owned and maintained by a homeowners' association.

Plans also call for a community center, a pool, a fitness center, parklets, a trail system and streetlights as well as streetscape enhancements along Rochester Road.

Construction on both developments will likely get under way later this year, said Ron Henshaw, township director of planning and development services.

After being delayed for several months, the board of supervisors also gave preliminary approval to the Laurel Pointe planned residential development on a 115-acre site on the west side of Franklin Road.

Henshaw said Laurel Pointe was first brought before the board in January, but the proposed plan was delayed while the sanitary sewage flow was determined, Henshaw said.

The solution was to add a pump station at the southeast corner of the land. The pump station will be paid for by the developer but owned by the township.

The plans calls for 157 single family homes split into two phases, 63 regular-sized homes and 94 villas.

Also planned for Laurel Pointe are multiple parklets and a trail system that will loop around the development and connect to the Village of Cranberry Woods. There will also be a new left turn lane on Franklin Road.