M/I Homes has plans for two subdivisions, north and south

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Columbus, Ohio-based M/I Homes has plans to develop two new residential subdivisions, one to the south of Charlotte and the other to the north.

Cameron Creek, planned for Tega Cay, S.C., is much further along in the development pipeline, said Tamara Lynch, marketing and sales vice president for the company’s Charlotte division.

Avery Park, which would be in Cornelius, awaits rezoning approval, a process that has been delayed as the town rewrites its zoning ordinance, according to Lynch and documents on file with the town planning department.

In York County, M/I closed a deal two weeks ago to buy eight tracts on S.C. 160 south of Gold Hill Road to build 312 homes in Cameron Creek, Lynch said. The tracts include a 74-acre site known locally as “the goat farm.”

The development will have 139 town houses, 108 detached homes on 30-foot-wide lots and 65 more traditional single-family units on 60-foot lots, Lynch said.

“It will be fairly dense,” Lynch said, with base prices ranging from $200,000 to $280,000.

The Cornelius subdivision would be about 90 single-family homes on 40 acres along Bailey Road east of Old Statesville Road, near Hough High School, according to town planning department documents.

But because the town recently adopted a new land-use plan and is now in the process of updating its zoning ordinance, Avery Park’s final look is still “morphing” and the rezoning process is on hold, Lynch said.

Avery Park takes its name from another fairly dense proposed subdivision that failed to win town rezoning approval in Huntersville after a long battle in 2012-13.

The residents of a nearby subdivision organized to send more than 180 letters of protest to the town of Huntersville complaining that the lot sizes were too small and the development would create too much traffic, Huntersville Planning Board Chairman Bruce Andersen said. The project needed a 5-1 supermajority of the Huntersville Board of Commissioners, but achieved only a 3-3 tie.

Like its Huntersville namesake, and like Cameron Creek, the Cornelius version of Avery Park was originally envisioned as a mix of small and large lots with different kinds of homes, Lynch said. But the site plan on file with the town of Cornelius shows that the subdivision would be a standard one with fairly evenly divided lots.

“We’d like to be doing something else, but realistically we don’t know what the zoning will be, so that’s what we have right now,” Lynch said. “It could morph again.”