Two years after Calvary United Methodist Church put about 18 acres of woods behind its Northfield Drive campus up for sale to pay off its debt, the congregation and a group of neighbors who want the land preserved are pursuing different futures for it.
The church has a signed purchase agreement with Fischer Homes, owned by parent company Grand Communities, which wants to build a 20-lot subdivision called Woodland Reserve. A neighborhood committee, Save The Woods, says it has raised commitments of more than $600,000 to buy the property and dedicate it as a nature preserve.
Neither plan is settled. The developer needs the land rezoned from institutional to R2 residential, a request that must go through the Brownsburg Advisory Plan Commission and the Town Council. Grand Communities introduced its plans Sept. 24, and the council took no action. A neighborhood meeting is scheduled for Oct. 15…