Mixed-use 100-acre development moves forward in Delaware

DELAWARE, Ohio ( WCMH ) — A nationwide home builder’s plan to construct more than 650 homes across an 114-acre mixed-use development is moving forward in Delaware.

Maronda Homes is aiming to build 655 homes as part of a residential and commercial development named “Donovan Farms” on a 114-acre site next to Boulder Park, east of South Section Line Road and west of Houk Road.

The Delaware Planning Commission voted to approve Maronda Home’s preliminary and final plat for the subdivision on Feb. 7, which reconfigured the parcel’s lines so the home builder can now purchase the large site from the current owner in phases.

Plans call for Donovan Farms to yield up to 655 homes, including 255 single-family lots on 74 acres and 360 multi-family units on 38 acres. The development would also be home to 10 acres of commercial development and 32 acres of green space.

“This proposal serves as good transition to the established single-family subdivisions located to the northeast, providing needed and varied housing types according to market studies,” stated the Delaware commission’s report when it provided feedback in October of last year to a first look at the proposal.

Maronda Homes will return to the commission for additional approval before construction can begin. The home builder will be required to continue moving through the approval process with proposals for each section, rather than for the development as a whole, given the site’s lines have been reconfigured.

The proposal is advancing as several other developments are taking shape in Delaware, like the 273-acre Addison Farms north of downtown. The development is set to include 95 single-family homes across more than 40 acres, 280 apartment units across 45 single-story buildings and 139 additional single-family homes across 35 acres.

Romanelli and Hughes is constructing 97 single-family homes to continue building out the 473-acre Terra Alta development north of Braumiller Road and west of Berlin Station Road. The plan calls for 43 homes to be built on 27.2 acres and 54 home on 21.2 acres.

View Maronda Homes’ Donovan Farms proposal here . Delaware’s commission meets once a month, watch previous meetings here .

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