Russell at Truxel scales back density, adds for-sale homes in revised South Natomas plan.
Plans for Russell at Truxel have shifted since the project was first proposed. What began in 2022 as a high-density rental community with 384 apartments is being reshaped into a mixed-tenure neighborhood—fewer homes overall, but with a larger share reserved as income-restricted rentals and a new for-sale component.
The 17.4-acre site at 3625 Fong Ranch Road, near Truxel Road and I-80, was offered by the City of Sacramento under the Surplus Land Act for housing in 2021 and redesignated to Residential Mixed Use as part of the 2040 General Plan EIR certified in January 2024.
In April 2025, the City and the developer, Anton Fong Ranch Owners, LLC, amended their purchase agreement to reduce total homes and split the project between ownership and rental housing.
Under the revision, the plan now totals 219 homes: 100 for-sale, small-lot single-family houses and 119 apartments on the affordable-housing side. Of those apartments, 118 are income-restricted, plus one on-site manager’s unit—about 54 percent of the entire project.
The for-sale homes are detached units sized roughly 1,850 to 2,300 square feet on lots of about 2,660 to 4,351 square feet. A builder for this portion has not been named.
The affordable rental component consists of two four-story buildings and a 7,039-square-foot community building. Apartments will range from about 686 to 1,203 square feet in one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts. Amenities cluster active uses—playgrounds, outdoor dining areas, and a splash pad—around the community center, with quieter pockets such as a pet area and shaded seating distributed throughout.
Off-street parking for the affordable buildings exceeds city minimums, with 214 spaces provided versus 179 required, and 72 bicycle spaces (64 long-term and 8 short-term).
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Circulation has been reworked with two new public streets, sound walls along sensitive edges, and a shared-use trail at the perimeter that will connect to the planned Fong Ranch Park and the broader city trail network.
The site plan places the apartments at the southeast corner, closer to Discovery High School and Natomas High School, while the single-family homes line the northern, western, and eastern edges to match surrounding neighborhoods.
The changes mark a departure from the 2022 concept, which called for 384 market-rate and affordable apartments across a dozen three-story buildings arrayed around a central clubhouse with a pool, fitness center, and coworking lounge. Common and private open space in that version totaled 195,150 square feet—about 4.5 acres.
Anton will retain the affordable-housing portion; the single-family homes are expected to be delivered by a separate builder. The project is set up to be mapped and built in phases, though no construction schedule has been announced.
