If you want a brand-new detached home in Johns Creek, where will it come from? The city's newest approval is 48 homes on athletic fields at the Johns Creek United Methodist Church campus. New supply here arrives in small groups of homes, often on land first zoned for something else, and the gated community next door is the best guide to what those homes will cost.
An approval in September does not mean a house this winter
On Sept. 14, 2026, the Johns Creek City Council approved rezoning about 21.65 acres of the church campus at Medlock Bridge and Bell roads from office and institutional use to a Community Unit Plan district, according to the North Atlanta Star. The church stays. So do its recreational space and walking paths, which the new neighborhood will share.
The rezoning sets the allowed land use and the development conditions. It does not authorize anyone to start building houses. The public case materials list no construction schedule, no expected home prices and no opening date. Several steps still have to happen before a buyer can sign anything:
- Detailed engineering plans have to clear the city's review.
- Stormwater designs have to clear the same review.
- Subdivision plats have to be approved.
- Building permits have to be issued.
The applicant on the case was Handsel Holdings, LLC, and the property owner is Johns Creek United Methodist Church, Inc. The application was filed May 5, 2026, and it reached a council vote four months later. The next public milestone will be a detailed construction submission.
Why the land is coming from churches and office parks
The church parcel was never zoned for housing. Under a 2009 approval, it was zoned O-I Conditional for a church of up to 180,000 square feet, a scout center and ten outdoor recreational fields. The city's comprehensive plan designates the area Tech Park. The site already holds a 195,250-square-foot church building and 510 parking spaces. Its neighbors are Alcon, a Georgia Power substation, Bellmoore Park and the Bell Road Connector. Homes will fill the fields, the part of the campus the North Atlanta Star described as underused.
Other recent Johns Creek housing cases also add homes in small numbers. In 2024 the city weighed townhomes on 6.74 acres at 6350 Hospital Parkway, inside the Tech Park, according to the city's staff report. On Sept. 30, 2024, the council voted 7–0 to rezone the site from a mixed-use district to townhouse residential for 60 townhomes. Its conditions included a 1,900-square-foot minimum heated area and required façade offsets and varied rooflines between neighboring units, according to the city's council minutes. A third case, a 20-home detached subdivision at 11705 Fox Road and 11720 Jones Bridge Road, received Planning Commission approval with conditions, as shown on the city's Planning Commission page.
| Site | Homes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 11180 Medlock Bridge Rd, church campus | 48 detached | Approved by council Sept. 14, 2026 |
| 6350 Hospital Pkwy, Tech Park | 60 townhomes | Approved 7–0 Sept. 30, 2024 |
| 11705 Fox Rd and 11720 Jones Bridge Rd | 20 detached | Planning Commission approval with conditions; now selling as Bellwyn |
Each case added somewhere between 20 and 60 homes. The broader metro is in a different position. Atlanta REALTORS and FMLS reported 21,053 active listings across 11 metro counties in September 2026, up 6.7% from a year earlier, with 4.9 months' supply and an average of 30 days on market, in the September 2026 market brief. Those are regional figures, not Johns Creek figures. They show that inventory has been growing across the region. New detached homes inside Johns Creek still come one small enclave at a time.
The community next door sets the price
When an enclave is approved without a builder or price list, the most useful clue is the established community beside it. For the church fields, that community is Bellmoore Park at 10880 Bell Road, a gated, 224-acre community built by The Providence Group. More than 70 of its acres are kept as green space. Its builder currently lists homes from $1,135,900, ranging from 2,852 to 4,394 square feet.
Bellwyn at 11705 Fox Road shows what happens after the approval stage. It is the same address as the 20-home Planning Commission case. The Providence Group now markets it as a gated enclave of 20 homesites, with homes from $1,253,900 and plans from 3,472 to 4,394 square feet. Its listed available homes run from $1,296,900 to $1,540,955.
Put those prices next to the metro. The 11-county median sale price was $416,000 in September 2026, up 1.5% year over year. Bellmoore Park's starting price is about 2.7 times that median. The church case has its own applicant and smaller interior lots, and its public case materials list no prices. But it sits in the same corner of Bell Road as Bellmoore Park and borders it directly. A buyer saving for "new construction in Johns Creek" should budget for the most recent sale in the community next door, not for the metro median.
What the lot sizes actually mean
The approved plan puts two lot types on the same street grid. Fifteen lots of at least 5,000 square feet face Bell Road and the Bell Road Connector. The other 33 lots can be as small as 3,600 square feet and sit farther inside the property. A 3,600-square-foot lot is a little under a tenth of an acre. Homes will have two-car garages and façades that mix brick veneer, stone and cementitious siding.
The project's density is still lower than its neighbors'. At 2.2 homes per acre, it is less dense than Bellmoore Park at 2.88 and The Reserve at Foxdale at 3.07. Those two numbers fit together because about 4.08 acres, or 18.85% of the rezoned land, counts as common open space. The church's own buildings and parking also stay inside the 21.65-acre total. The homes cluster together, and the open land sits between and around them.
The open space includes a dog park, a soccer field, a playground and a landscaped park. It also includes bioretention ponds. Stormwater facilities count toward the 4.08 acres, so not all of it works as ordinary recreational land. The project will use an existing detention pond and add an underground stormwater facility in the northeast corner of the property. For a buyer, that means the edge of a backyard may face a planted bioretention area or a playground, depending on the lot. That makes lot position in this enclave as much about the view as about square footage.
The road you will drive every day
The neighborhood will have one full-access entrance on Bell Road and no direct connection to Medlock Bridge Road. A private internal road will serve the homes. The project is expected to generate about 635 vehicle trips on a typical day, with 37 in the morning peak hour and 49 in the evening peak. The city's conditions require dedicated turn lanes on Bell Road. A 40-foot landscape strip will remain along Medlock Bridge Road, and a 25-foot undisturbed buffer will separate the homes from the Georgia Power substation to the north.
The 15 larger lots line Bell Road and the Bell Road Connector, the roads that will carry the new turn lanes. The 33 smaller interior lots sit farther from that traffic.
FAQ
Can I reserve a home at the church site now? The approval covers land use and conditions only. Engineering plans, plats and building permits still have to pass city review, and no prices or opening date are in the public case materials.
Is the church leaving? No. Johns Creek United Methodist Church stays on the campus, along with recreational space and pedestrian connections it will share with the new homes.
Are water and sewer available for the project? Yes. Water and sewer capacity are available for the development, according to the North Atlanta Star.
Where can I follow the case? The city has posted the council meeting video and the Sept. 1 Planning Commission materials.
This post is general information about public zoning records, not legal or financial advice. Please confirm the details of any specific property with the right professional.
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