DICKINSON — The first phase of a $50 million residential development slated to bring 900 rooftops to Dickinson and Santa Fe should be ready for builders this time next year.

Bordering Cemetery Road and Dickinson Bayou, Arcadia Station will encompass 362 acres of strictly single-family homes selling from $200,000 to $600,000, said Randal M. Hall with Sonrisa Development of League City.

Hall met Dickinson Mayor Julie Masters and Santa Fe Mayor Ralph Stenzel near the northwest corner of the development in Santa Fe on Monday to discuss plans. The development will be split between Dickinson and Santa Fe city limits.

The development is entirely within the Santa Fe school district, Stenzel said.

Utilities for the three-phase development will be financed through a municipal district, and construction of the first 330 homes could begin next September, Hall said.

“Complete build-out will be from 2018 to 2020,” Hall said.

A downswing in the national housing market hasn’t deterred area developers.

Master and Stenzel said they were seeing explosive growth that has their cities and school districts preparing to escalate public services.

Hall said he has spoken to the Santa Fe schools superintendent about the possibility of building an elementary school nearby.

He said some builders are leaving markets across the nation and migrating to the Houston area.

“We’ve not seen a lack of interest among builders in the Houston market,” Hall said. “There is extremely strong job growth in the Houston and Galveston County-area that is dependent on the energy industry. We think that will fund continuous growth.”

Masters said the development would provide water and sewer to existing areas and potential areas of development south of the bayou.

Bud Solmonsson, a Dickinson Bayou watershed manager with Texas A&M University, is concerned further development along the impaired tidewater body could mean more storm-water runoff that would further complicate the state’s efforts to reduce pollution and bacteria levels that deplete it of oxygen.

Hall said the development will control storm-water runoff through detention ponds to mitigate some of those concerns.

“We have to meet the zero impact requirement,” Hall said. The detention ponds planned for the development would also prevent it from flooding neighbors with storm-water runoff, Master and Stenzel said.

“You can’t drain anymore water into the bayou,” Masters said. “What’s draining now is raw land, and they can’t drain anymore water than what’s draining today.”