HomeMy WebLinkAboutLetter #32 Thomas Hession Shestak, Joe
From: Shestak, Joe
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 3:56 PM
To: Shestak, Joe
Subject: FW: 106th St. and Ditch Rd.Zoning and Plan Commission Meeting
Letter#32
From: Tom Hession [mailto:tbh@aatt.net]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 3:22 PM
To: Lopez, Alexia K; Shestak, Joe; tbh@att.net; Gregory Stewart
Subject: 106th St. and Ditch Rd. Zoning and Plan Commission Meeting
Hello Joe, Alexia and Greg,
I am unable to attend this BZA meeting on Tuesday Nov. 20, 2018. I have
asked my neighbor Greg Stewart to read my response to those who are in
attendance at the meeting since I will not be able to make an appearance and
have a voice for myself.
I wanted to provide a response in regard to the proposed request by a
developer to change the zoning for the vacant land development on the corner
of 106th St. and Ditch Road. Joe and Alexia, I'd like to thank you for serving the
citizens of Carmel and this southwest Clay Township area. I appreciate your
looking out for the best interest of us who live in this immediate area and you
and your committee acting appropriately to the reaction of the residents. I look
to your committee to apply the full "INTENT" and "SPIRIT" of the zoning law
that has been put in place many years ago. I am grateful for the wisdom and
discernment of the fore fathers from within the Carmel zoning and planning
office to create our current zoning law to preserve and protect the nature of the
106th Street corridor as an estate style setting with individual homes on
individual plotted lots that are at least 1 acre minimum in size.
I have been a custom home builder in Carmel for 35 years now. I have seen the
zoning designations and planning used to appropriately create and manage an
orderly design process of neighborhood communities that blend and match the
area to protect those who have moved into their neighborhood and to keep the
immediate area protected from any design and plot plan deviations.
Driving down 106th Street between Springmill Rd. and Towne Rd., and Ditch
Rd. between 96th St. and 116th St., you can clearly see that neighborhoods
and individual homes are on large plots of ground with plenty of space between
residences. The estate feel and style of the area is exemplified by Laurel Wood,
Estancia Way, Winterwood, Queens Manor, Laurel Ridge, the Simon property,
and Crooked Stick Estates. Within Crooked Stick alone, I am aware of families
purchasing existing homes at prices starting at and sometimes well over
$500,000 in order to tear down and build new custom residences or significantly
remodel and renovate the existing property.
For the proposed development on the northwest corner of 106th St. and Ditch
Rd., on its opposing southeast corner is the current development of Laurel
Ridge with near multi acre home site lots with multi million dollar homes being
built on those platted sites. Any proposed plan for this available vacant land
should be a design for a neighborhood similar to what is being developed on its
opposing corner. With the larger lots and homes, there is a better tax income for
the city with a lower demand on community services. This current proposed
design for development clearly violates the Spirit and the Intent of the zoning for
this area. This proposed plan is more appropriate for an open barren cornfield
setting further north in Hamilton County and removed from an established
estate setting area. Making a request as a PUD allows the developer to
manipulate and twist the interpretation and application of what the zoning
regulation is and what the intent for this area is. This development design really
shows its contempt for the zoning law in place and contempt for those who
chose to live in this setting.
This design and PUD request is all for the developer's interests and financial
greed to squeeze more money out of the land without regard to the current
residents protection and their financial investment in this immediate area.
These small 15,0000 sq. ft. lots have no place within this residential corridor.
am NOT in favor of any zoning adjustment and definitely OPPOSED to a PUD
for this land development.
I thank the planning and zoning committees for doing their due diligence in
looking to and understanding why this zoning was set in place and why it was
necessary to protect this corridor from this type of request which is a
compromised development plan that does not fit this area. I thank you for
honoring what has been put in place by those who have come before you and
showing respect to those who have already invested in the area.
Sincerely,
Thomas Hession
10850 Crooked Stick Lane
Carmel, Indiana
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