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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNewspaper Articles - Group 1 (5) By PATTIE DICK a News Correspondent tee to "keep an idea of what g f • CARMEL..,Ind. — The idea of Carmel is to be In the future," expanding Carmel's boundaries before inviting steering cammit- 3 £„ . 4 to include all of Clay Township tee comments. ( s ?�„ ` has been discussed by a group of Committee member Will city planners. Wright, a Carmel area developer. Speaking at a meeting of the said he believes there is a prob- 4 �. Plan Update SteeringCarmel-Clay Comprehensive lem with making an alternate .Committee plan. .; this week, developer and co - "The public perceives the mittee member George Sweet plan as fact, rather than a per- said he would like someone to ceptual plan," Wright said. • study the practicality of making He said he believes`It would` the city's boundaries coincide with those of Clay Townshi P• be better to use a pie chart ' • show the percentage of use for Alan Potasnik. who is the each type of`development and Carmel City Council's represen- avoid colored area maps depict- ' tative to the committee, said, ing where these types of develop- "The idea has a lot of merit.'It's ment should go. been kicked around on an infor- Pieplow told Wright he felt mal basis by some members of Wright's idea would leave a the council." "' • Brian Pte blank plan with apie Pieplow. land use plan- chart. "That's not as constructive ner from Howard Needles Tam- ' as what I'm hearing is needed," men & Bergendoff, told the corn- Pieplow said. mittee the idea of unified Dillon agreed with Pie plow's government would be "verya g plow's ;,�� ` propriate as a P" comments. dation of thep llcomprehensive "Too much of planning and Plan." zoning serves as a point at ..: + P which arbitration starts," Dillon Sweet said it would be "rea- 3� sonable to say to the plan corn- said. '; mission, 'Why don't you discuss He said the last in 1985hen- this?' " sive plan, developed 1985, left �: f He said the plan commission nine transition areas. He said he s, is the appropriate forum'for the see the new plan would like to �` idea because it includes re re- it more specific regarding tran- I sentatives from both the city and sition areas. township. Committee member Bob Boone echoed Dillon's remarks,Committee member and V �' founder of the Clay West Infor- saying, "It's terribly important mation Council Jim Dillon said to people when they make the P kind of investments they do in unified townshipwide govern- e Indianapolis News ment "would require a referen- this community. They want as- kind dum." n the main indoor He asserted there is a "feelln Boone said he feels the plan for nine years. of disenfranchisement" among' g needs to "get down to almost Clay Township residents' 'b line drawings"In terms of detail. cause of Carmel City Council au- Greg Binder, also a committee )' , bus thorny in township rezonih member, said. "1 thinkeoit'sreally Three preliminary plancon- important.as a harrieowner: that Q K'd eept scenarios were reviewed we have a map.[i\ and critiqued by the committee Binderb saidw he feels more at Wednesday night's meetin comfortable with the corridor Pieplow offered as possible islin more scenario lineowith and what ethe ®n scenarios for the comprehensive committee should pursue be- plan; concepts involving "cen- cause it takes the environment vs tral focus," "neighborhood vii- into account. The Leba- lages" and "corridor linkage." The majority of the committee ' voted to Pieplow explained the central rejected`the neighborhood vil- nications focus us scenario would attempt to lages concept. teaching keep all major regional office However. Wes Bucher, direc- space and industry in a mid- tor of the Carmel Department of 16 mo- town location. High-density resi-". Community Development. de- . l buses dential uses would become a fended the idea. :unicate buffer zone'between the com- He said the neighborhood vii- Mon. mercial center and the lower- lages scenario fits dome of'the ' Jrchase density residential uses. be used The plan calls for a parkway presentBucher saithere a are plans to 3nnel, surrounding the outer perimeter extend 96th Street over-White s and , of the high-density residential River, which will create'a com as well region. mercial corridor at the southeast The neighborhood villages corner of the township. em will concept would place residential He said Carmel has more de- Jratlon's areas around local shopping cen- centralized industrial areas. ,m which ters, which are not addressed in the zopriated The third concept, the cord- corridor linkages or central focus dor linkage plan, would put corn- scenarios. III be pur- mercial uses along major corn The committee will continue iunications dOre• the discussion at its 8:30 apolis. The plan calls for regional Aug. 1 meeting'in the City Meet- the equip. recreation areas within current ing Hall and is expected to yard mem- natural open spaces. choose a scenario at its Aug. 8 Pieplow charged the commit- meetin.-. ;ht casting erre,