One of the area’s largest homebuilders received approval Tuesday night to build two communities with 320 single-family houses on the west side of Noblesville.
Jon Dobosiewicz, a land-use professional with Carmel-based law firm Nelson & Frankenberger, discussed plans at Tuesday’s Noblesville City Council meeting for the communities proposed by M/I Homes of Indiana called MontClaire and Bending Branch of Noblesville.
Council members considered ordinances to rezone both sites to planned unit developments and to set preliminary development plans. Councilors voted 7-1 for MontClaire and 6-2 for Bending Branch. Councilor Mark Boice voted against both MontClaire and Bending Branch, and Councilor Todd Thurston voted against Bending Branch.
M/I Homes plans to build MontClaire, which would have 136 single-story ranch and two-story houses, on 93 acres north of State Road 32 and between Little Chicago Road and Mill Creek Road.
The community would be north of the Promenade at Noblesville development by Indianapolis-based The Justus Cos. that includes a Meijer Grocery, the Promenade Trails senior-living community, the future headquarters of The Justus Cos. and multiple retail businesses.
Plans call for houses at MontClaire to be priced from $600,000 to $800,000. Single-story ranch houses would range from 1,900 to 2,700 square feet, while two-story houses would be 2,200 to 3,800 square feet.
MontClaire would feature about 43 acres of open space and tree preservation areas.
Houses at MontClaire would have four-sided architecture that would align with future residential developments in Noblesville at Morse Village, a $250 million development by Indianapolis-based LOR Corp. near Morse Reservoir, and Gatewood Lakes, a $2 billion development by Zionsville-based Henke Development Group LLC on 1,100 acres at the intersection of East 146th Street and Olio Road.
Bending Branch would feature 184 single-story ranch and two-story houses that would be built about 2 miles west of MontClaire on 99 acres of agricultural land north of East 191st Street and east of Moontown Road.
Houses at Bending Branch would range from the mid-$400,000s to $700,000. Single-story ranch houses would start at 1,900 square feet and two-story houses would begin at 2,200 square feet.
Bending Branch would also have about 40 acres of common space, an amenity area and a preserved woods on the north side of the development.
Before voting against Bending Branch, Thurston said he had hoped there would be less density and more green space throughout the subdivision before the project returned to the City Council for a vote. Both projects were introduced to the City Council on April 17 and were reviewed by the Plan Commission on May 19.
M/I Homes was the fourth-busiest homebuilder in central Indiana in 2023, according to IBJ research, with 484 permit filings.
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