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DEPARTMENT REPORT
June 5, 2001
1. Docket No. 186-00 Z; DePauw Rezone
Petitioner seeks favorable recommendation of a rezone from the S-2/residence district to the
B5/business district on 1.87+ acres. The site is located northwest of West 131St Street and
North Meridian Street. The site is zoned S-2/residence.
Filed by E. Davis Coots of Coots Henke &Wheeler for CH Land LLC.
2. Docket No. 187-00 Z; DePauw Rezone
Petitioner seeks favorable recommendation of a rezone from the S-2/residence district to the
B-5/business district on 9.42+ acres. The site is located northwest of West 131st Street and
North Meridian Street. The site is zoned S-2/residence within the US 31/Meridian Street
Overlay Zone.
Filed by E. Davis Coots of Coots Henke &Wheeler for CMC Properties, Inc.
3. Docket No. 188-00 Z; DePauw Rezone
Petitioner seeks favorable recommendation of a rezone from the S-2/residence district to the
B-5/business district on 10.02+acres. The site is located northwest of West 131St Street and
North Meridian Street. The site is zoned S-2/residence within the US 31/Meridian Street
Overlay Zone.
Filed by E. Davis Coots of Coots Henke &Wheeler for DePauw University& Earlham
College.
General Comments (on all three requests):
The committee continued the first two petitions in April and March. The last was tabled
in March. Both of the first two petitions were sent to the full Plan Commission and they
were remanded back to the committee at the commissions May 15th meeting. The
Commission had questions regarding the configuration of the access onto Meridian
Corners Boulevard, how the DePauw property was to be addressed, and the commitment
for the CH Land property to go through ADLS.
The Department maintains that it will only be in support of the petition(s) if the applicant
Committee Report 2001-06-05
commits to dedicating additional right-of-way for the Illinois Street Corridor (Meridian
Corners Blvd.) and 131st Street (a total of a 60' half for both) and that the area identified
for the Pennsylvania Parkway ramps to the north end of the collective site be reserved for
that future use. The uses on the other properties should be designed as if the area in
question was right-of-way. The intent of the Department as it has always been is to allow
the property owner to develop the overall property by allowing the office uses proposed
by CMC Properties and CH Land. Preservation of the future roadway is the critical
element. We do not want to place ourselves in a similar situation that may precipitate the
issues now being addressed on the opposite side of the US 31 Corridor.
The Department is awaiting a response from the applicants as to their negotiations
regarding the preservation of the right-of-way.
Committee Report 2001-06-05
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