An area developer plans to build 500 homes in the Center Grove area.
Indianapolis-based Arbor Homes has its sights set on 231 acres of farmland on Whiteland Road, between Honey Creek Road and State Road 135 in Greenwood. The proposed plan calls for a massive subdivision, dubbed Scottsdale, with 505 medium and large single-family homes, along with several amenities. Arbor wants to rezone the property to residential from agricultural.
The homes would be split into two separate sections. Section A would house 338 of Arbor’s traditional-style homes, zoned by the city as medium residential and ranging in size between 1,300 and 3,200 square feet. The houses would be similar to those found in Arbor’s Cherry Tree Walk subdivision in Greenwood, and cost about $270,000, Paul Munoz, entitlement manager at Arbor Homes, told the Greenwood Advisory Plan Commission during a public hearing Monday night.
Section B would house 167 of the developer’s new Silverthorne homes, zoned by the city as residential large. These homes are a "step up" from Arbor’s classic style, with larger layouts ranging in size between 1,600 and 3,200 square feet and higher-end interior designs, Munoz said. These would cost about $370,000.
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"This is a step up for maybe a second- or third-time buyer, somebody who is looking to move up into a little bit nicer home," Munoz said.
Neither styles would have vinyl siding, as requested by the city, Munoz said.
Arbor also plans to set aside 71 acres of space for a pool, playground, dog park, 2.7-mile long biking and walking trail, and a disc golf course, Munoz said.
"We believe all that is going to provide a lot of continuity throughout the subdivision, rather than if you were to have multiple builders coming and taking 20 acres here and 20 acres there," Munoz said.
The new neighborhood would likely add hundreds of students to Center Grove Community Schools.
Arbor Homes presented the information to the plan commission Monday night to request a favorable recommendation to the city council to rezone the land from agriculture to residential use. The plans were up for a public hearing, but no one from the community attended the meeting to speak about the proposed subdivision.
The commission unanimously approved the rezone, sending a favorable recommendation to the Greenwood City Council, which will also vote on the proposed plans at its meetings next month.
