More than 240 new homes could be coming to Greenwood if the city council votes to annex more than 155 acres on the southeast side of the city.
The 156.45-acre proposed annexation is located northeast of Worthsville and Griffith roads. The land is just outside city limits. If annexed, 242 new homes could be coming to the city. The land would be zoned as residential medium and residential large within Greenwood, according to city documents.
The annexation request and a fiscal plan were introduced at a Greenwood City Council meeting last week.
Premier Land Company II, LLC, an Indianapolis developer, would build out the neighborhood, dubbed Grand Vista East.
Residential medium lots would cost, on average, $340,000, and residential large lots would cost, on average, $420,000, according to city documents.
The proposed annexation would not guarantee the availability of sanitary sewers on the property. The Board of Public Works and Safety would have to review availability, and either the developer or land owner would need to pay to install the sewers to the city’s specifications, documents show.
The neighborhood would be served by the Johnson County Public Library and Clark-Pleasant schools. If annexed, both would continue to serve the area, and would see increases in patrons and enrollment, respectively.
The proposed annexation and neighborhood have not yet received a recommendation from the Greenwood Advisory Plan Commission.
The annexation will be discussed during the commission’s Sept. 13 meeting. A staff report for the commission gave a favorable recommendation with the developer being required to make several commitments.
Among the commitments, the developer would be required to complete a traffic study, upgrade and improve Griffith and Billingsly roads, and add trails within the subdivision and along Worthsville Road.
The Greenwood Parks and Recreation Department is also considering acquiring part of the land for a possible park, according to the staff report.
A public hearing on the annexation is set for the city council’s Sept. 20 meeting.
In other news
The council voted 7-2 to change when fireworks can be used around the Fourth of July holiday. Fireworks can be used on July 4, between 5 p.m. and 2 hours after sunset on the last Saturday in June, from June 29 to July 3, and July 5-9 each year.
Two other ordinances were introduced, but no action was taken yet.
The first ordinance would prohibit the use of public records for commercial use. Several companies have reached out to the city to ask for information on purchase orders and vendors used within a certain period of time. The companies are then putting the information into a database and selling it to other companies, city controller Greg Wright said.
“If we typically buy something that the company does, they would then get our information on how to contact us and become our provider for that,” he said.
The county passed a similar ordinance due to the same issue. The ordinance would allow the city to eliminate these requests and instead focus on the actual purpose of public records — to provide the public with information — Wright said.
The second ordinance would allow the parks department to transfer $60,000 from one of its capital outlays budgets to a supply budget. The transfer is needed to help cover the costs of equipment for the new Greenwood Fieldhouse, according to city documents.
The additional funding will also be used to help cover start-up and cleaning supplies costs, city documents show.
