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GEICO – NORTH PARKING LOT
EXPANSION
Docket Nos. 20020002 V & 20020003 V
DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS VARIANCE APPLICATION
CITY OF CARMEL, INDIANA
Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals
Applicant/Owner: Superior Street LLC and
Carmel Indy Holdings, LLC
Attorneys: Ice Miller LLP
Attn: Timothy E. Ochs
One American Square, Suite 2900
Indianapolis, IN 46282-0200
(317) 236-5952
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Project Introduction / Statement of Request and Support
2. Location Map
3. Aerial Map
4. Site Plan
5. Landscape Plan
6. Findings of Facts
7. Ballot Sheets
TAB 1
Project Introduction /
Statement of Request
and Support
Carmel Indy Properties, LLC, is the owner of the office building located at 101 W. 103rd Street,
which includes a 3 story office building. One of t he current tenants in the Building, Geico,
desires to extend its lease as well as expand it to include the entirety of the office building. This
expansion of Geico’s lease may ultimately result in an increase of over 500 employees at this
site, which has triggered a need for additional parking. An opportunity to expand the parking
became possible when the City of Carmel eliminated its plans to install a roundabout at 103rd and
Illinois. The owner and its affiliate Superior Street, LLC, which is also a petitioner, agreed to
swap certain other nearby real estate desired by the City for right-of-way in exchange for the real
estate that had been acquired by the City to allow the installation of the roundabout. This real
estate is the subject of the requested variance, which, if approved, will allow for the construction
of a new parking lot north of the existing office building as shown on the plans included with the
application and this packet. The proposed parking lot is accessible from within the current site,
so no new entrances from public streets will be necessary. The parking lot design has received
ADLS approval, and includes landscape islands, perimeter landscaping, an obligation to replace
all trees to be removed at a 1 to 1 ratio, and rain gardens to provide stormwater quality. The two
requested variances would allow for the reduction o f the front yard setback along Illinois Street
from thirty feet (30’) to five feet (5’), and a reduction of the front yard setback along 103rd
/Superior Street from twenty feet (20’) to five feet (5’). The setback is desired because the
parking is desperately needed to allow Geico to stay in the building, and an adequate number of
parking spaces cannot be provided on the unusually shaped lot without a variance of the
setbacks.
TAB 2
Location Map
TAB 3
Aerial Map
TAB 4
Site Plan
TAB 5
Landscape Plan
TAB 6
Findings of Facts
TAB 7
Ballot Sheets