MCCORDSVILLE — Members of the McCordsville Town Council recently heard two presentations for housing developments that include a total of 282 lots.
Representatives from Pulte Homes described plans for an “infill” housing project at the intersection of County Roads 900N and 700W. The council also heard from representatives of Westport Homes, which is hoping to build a large housing development near the planned McCordsville town center.
Caitlin Dopher, Pulte Homes manager of land planning and entitlement, gave the informal presentation on the proposed Silverleaf housing development, an infill project of 55 lots on 25 acres southeast of 86th Street and Carroll Road. An infill project develops vacant land between developed lots in urban areas.
The design series of the homes is known as the Landing series, more open-concept homes aimed at younger home buyers and millennials, Dopher said. There are six floor plans within the series, including one ranch-style home, and the homes range from 1,800 square feet to 3,000 square feet and include three to four bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms and two-car garages with an option for a third car or storage space, Dopher said.
She said the designs were chosen to reflect McCordsville’s architectural standards.
“You will see a higher masonry percentage in these,” she said. “We want you to get a feel for what we’re thinking of and let us know if we’re going in the right direction.”
The next steps for Pulte are to file a planned unit development with the town and go before the plan commission in February, with hopes of purchasing property and beginning construction on the project this summer, Dopher said.
The second project is a much larger development from Westport Homes, the builder behind the large Sawmill development in Greenfield. Colonial Hill, the proposed project, is located a quarter mile east of Mt. Comfort Road between county roads 700N and 750N and consists of two separate parcels totaling about 100 acres, said Mark Leach, land use planner with Faegre Baker Daniels, a law firm representing Westport Homes.
The site is divided by Stansbury Ditch and will have three separate districts with 227 separate single-family home sites and a potential 11-acre park dedicated to the town by the builder at completion, Leach said.
The northernmost district, featuring cottage-style homes averaging 1,900 square feet and costing an average of $240,000, will have 61 home sites measuring 40 feet by 125 feet. A second district, with homes averaging 2,400 square feet and priced at around $250,000, will comprise 72 homes on 60-by-125 foot sites. The third district, with homes averaging 2,700 square feet at an average cost of $350,000, will consist of 94 single-family, 90-by-125 foot sites.
The planned development will also feature creek-side walking paths and a pedestrian bridge that would cross Stansbury Ditch, giving this and adjoining neighborhoods connectivity and access to the future McCordsville Town Center project planned for north of the proposed development.
The entire neighborhood will have 1.2 miles of asphalt walking paths and 4.1 miles of internal concrete sidewalks, Leach said.
McCordsville Town Council members expressed several concerns with the proposed project, including having only one boulevard-style entrance not far from a school, as well as setbacks from the proposed town center and whether to have access roads to the cottage-style homes.
Town council member Tom Strayer suggested the designs be altered to place the front of the houses closest to the town center, rather than the rear.
