The planned subdivision's design count: the house count stands at 3,400; the design count was never published

Register row L22-#8 · closes as a NAMED GAP

What stands: the Communities of Knollwood carry the checklist's house count whole, from the developer's own account: Adams Road Development's Home Builders Association of St. Joseph Valley showcase (Spring 2019) states "over 3,400 home sites, on 3,000 acres, in 20 neighborhoods, and 30 lakes," spanning two states, three townships and three school districts — the count the banked neighborhoods leg prints. The sworn record converges (Steve Smith, IURC Cause No. 45568: more than a dozen neighborhoods and several thousand homes under Dave Eckrich Sr.). At the newest plat the size discipline of the community is also in print, and it is a size rule, not a design count: Woodford Trails requires a minimum 2,200 square feet for a ranch and 2,400 for a two-story (listing record, 2025–26), with custom estate homes at $1M–$2M built one by one by Kline Custom Homes and others.

What was tested, and not found: the second half of the pattern — a stated number of house designs or models across the community (the 315-houses / seven-designs form) — appears in no source reached: not in the HBA showcase, not in Adams Road Development's published accounts, not in the sworn testimony, not in the builders' listing record, which describes the Knollwood course in the opposite terms — custom homes, designed per buyer, in the ring's later decades, and production sections in its earlier ones, with no model catalogue ever published for either. A community built over fifty years by additions, phases and latterly custom builders may never have had a countable design set at all; the record neither states one nor states that none existed, and the item therefore cannot close as a negative.

The settler: Adams Road Development's and the HBA of St. Joseph Valley's showcase and sales records for the community's production decades, read against the county building-permit model record — the two sources the register names. Until they are read, the design count stands as a named gap beside a settled house count, and no number is supplied for it here.

Sources:

1. Home Builders Association of St. Joseph Valley, Spring 2019 Bradford Shores showcase — 3,400 home sites, 3,000 acres, 20 neighborhoods, 30 lakes; Brian and David Eckrich; no design or model count stated.
2. Verified rebuttal testimony of Steve Smith, IURC Cause No. 45568 (26 October 2021) — the dozen-plus neighborhoods and several thousand homes, sworn; no design count.
3. Listing Leaders / IRMLS, Woodford Trails lots, 2025–26 — the 2,200 / 2,400 sq ft minimums and the $1M–$2M custom range.
4. Neighborhoods (banked) — the Knollwood creation and ring articles, searched for a design/model count; none carried.
5. Settler named: Adams Road Development / HBA of St. Joseph Valley showcase and sales records; county building-permit model record.