The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation submitted an application last week to the Boston Redevelopment Authority for a new housing development project that would bring 17 mixed-income housing units to the Talbot Norfolk Triangle neighborhood of Codman Square.

The proposed project, called “New England Heritage Homes,” would be located in 10 new buildings and would feature 16 three-bedroom moderate and low-income units available for purchase. One additional two-family home would feature an income-restricted rental unit available to the homebuyer to lease for rental income. Highlights of the project include LEED design and construction, bay windows, entry porches with canopies, and picket fencing.

According to Annie Wong, project manager for New England Heritage Homes, the development would be located on an assembly of seven vacant parcels totaling 41,294 square feet located near the intersection of New England, Mallard, Colonial, and Southern avenues, a quarter of a mile from the new Talbot Avenue MBTA station on the Fairmount commuter line.

Wong said that the Codman Square corporation acquired five of the vacant parcels for the project in April 2015, and has submitted an application the Department of Neighborhood Development for the two remaining city-owned parcels at 131 and 133 Southern Avenue. She said they hope to gain approval by next March.

Gail Latimore, president of the Codman Square development group, said this project will provide residents with a much-needed stake in their community through homeownership, adding that she sees it as a way to address residents’ fears about the development, gentrification, and affordability of housing options in Codman Square.

“We are really concerned about displacement in the neighborhood. We see people being priced out who have been longtime residents,” said Latimore. “Affordable and moderate income homeownership is a way to keep people in the neighborhood.”

The project has gained the support of At-large City Councillor Michelle Wu and state Rep. Russell E. Holmes, Wong said. The Codman Square NDC has engaged in discussions with neighborhood groups and businesses, including Talbot Norfolk Triangle Neighbors United and the Codman Square Neighborhood Council, Latimore said, and support from the two community groups is currently pending.

“We engage the community in everything we do. We’re trying to hopefully get this project up and running soon,” said Latimore. “But the main thing we have to do is ensure the community is comfortable with the design.”

Still, some are concerned about the evolution of that design. Paul Malkemes of Talbot Norfolk Triangle Neighbors United, which worked closely with the Codman Square NDC for over a year on the initial design of the project, said the plan originally had a much stronger focus on environmentally friendly design and the introduction of more green space in the area.

“Whether for cost factors or design changes that the city wanted to see, we’ve lost a number of those features,” he said.

But Malkemes said he hopes to work with the city to keep some of those elements, which included net-zero energy buildings, meaning the annual amount of energy consumed by the houses equals the annual amount they produce through renewable sources.

“The NDC has created a plan based on the city’s feedback, and the city’s feedback is probably a little different from what neighbors were hoping for,” Malkemes said. “Now we’re just in a space where we’re hoping to negotiate to get some of the original elements back in.”