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Resolution No. CC-10-01-01-08
A RESOLUTION APPROV1NG AN AMENDMENT TO THE CARMEL/CLAY
THOROUGHFARE PLAN REGARDING PROPOSED STATE OF INDIANA
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Advisory Planning Law of the State of Indiana (contained
in IC 36-7-4), each unit of local government that wishes to adopt land use and zoning
ordinances must first approve by resolution a comprehensive plan for the geographic area
over which it has jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, the 2020 Vision Comprehensive Plan (the "Comprehensive Plan") was
approved and recommended by the Carmel Clay Plan Commission on August 20, 1996,
and duly approved by resolution of the Common Council on September 24, 1996, and is
therefore the official Comprehensive Plan of the City of Carmel and Clay Township; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to IC 36-7-4-506 a thoroughfare plan may be included in the
Comprehensive Plan and may determine lines for new, extended, widened or narrowed
public ways in any part of the territory in the jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, after a thoroughfare plan has been included in the Comprehensive Plan,
thoroughfares may be located, changed, widened, straightened, or vacated only in the
manner indicated by the Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Carmel Clay Plan Commission has duly approved, and
recommended to the Common Council, an amendment to the conununity's Thoroughfare
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Plan which recommends certain alignments and interchanges for inclusion in the State of
Indiana's proposed improvements of U.S. Highway 31 between 96th Street and 146th
Street in Hamilton County, along with other recommendations respecting east-west
continuity and community mobility throughout the City and the Township;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of
Cannel, Indiana, that, pursuant to IC 36-7-4-509, it hereby adopts this Resolution to
approve the following Thoroughfare Plan Recommendations relating to the proposed U.S.
31 and other state highway improvements.
[See attached exhibit containing the proposed recommendations.]
After its adoption, this Resolution shall be filed in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer of
the City of Carmel, who shall also forward one (1) copy of this Resolution to the secretary
of the Cannel Clay Plan Commission and one (1) copy to the office of the Hamilton
County Recorder, all in accordance with IC 36-7-4-509 and other applicable laws.
AS SED by the Common Council of the City of Carmel, Indiana this /4/' day of
(P~ {/3/D/:~, , 2001, by a vote of 7 ayes and 0 nays.
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ATTEST:
Prese~ me, t;0t0h?. Mayor of the City of C_,armel, Indiana the [ day of
Diana L. Cordra , , -
Approved by me, Mayor of the City of Carmel, Indiana, this day of
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,2001.
Brainard, Mayore
l~iana L. Cordray, IAMC~Treasurer
Prepared By: John Molitor, MOLITOR, GRISHAM & HESTER, P.A., 11711 North
Meridian Street, Suite 200, Carmel, Indiana 46032; (317) 843-5511
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6.4 THOROUGHFARE PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS
Each of the issues presented above was considered in the development of
transportation recommendations in this section.
A. East-West Continuitv across U.S. 31
Consistent with the objectives voiced in the various citizen meetings, further solidified by
the U.S. 31 Corridor Task Force Special Area Study and timely with the 1997 US 31
Major Investment Study conducted by the state of Indiana study of U.S. 31, the
following recommendations are made.
1. Work with the State to locate and develop interchanges at key points along cff cf
U.S. 31 to serve the Community/Regional Employment Areas and provide
improved East-West access across Clay Township at 106th Street, 116th Street,
13tst Street Carmel Drive, 136t~'Strcct and 146th Street.
2. Work with the State to develop grade separated crossings ovcrpas~ec or
underpasses of U.S. 31 to provide enhanced additional Residential Community
APsa cross community east-west mobility at 103rd, 111th, Carmel Drive, 136th
Street and 131`~ Streets, 3s well as Range Line Road.
3. The proposed interchange at 131st 136t~ Street and U.S. 31 must be designed to
integrate with complement the City's thoroughfare plan, and, especially to allow
Illinois Street and Pennsylvania Parkway to logically terminate in an intersection
with Oak Ridge Road, as well as ensure connectivity of U.S. 31 with St. Vincent
Carreel Hospital.
4. Transportation improvements in the U.S. 31 Corridor must also include multi-modal
transportation elements consistent with HCAT and the Carmol Clay the Alternative
Transportation Plan Component to the Thoroughfare Plan.
5. Work with the State of Indiana to ensure that east-west mobility improvements (to
the streets below) include upgraded and expanded links to amenities and services
in old downtown Carmel, the Old Meridian District, and Carmel City Center.
116th Street Carmel Drive
City Center Drive Main Street
Old Meridian Street
6. Improvements must include design features and general appearance details that
enhance and are consistent with the high quality cff~cc Meridian Corporate
Corridor image that currently exists, such as:
Appearance and materials upgrades to all bridge/overpass structures, highway
barriers, safety lighting, landscaping & buffering, and directional signage;
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North (146th Street) and south (103rd Street) gateway enhancements
announcing you have arrived in Carmel;
Use of new pavement materials and technologies to reduce the noise
impacts to adjacent office and commercial buildings and nearby
residential neighborhoods;
Use of Round-A-Bout intersections at interchanges and local streets
wherever possible;
Provisions for quafity maintenance practices, to ensure the long-term viability of
the U.S. 31 proposed improvements.
Work with the State to develop a traffic maintenance strategy. Improvements
should not interrupt or negatively affect the businesses within the US 31
Corridor. Maintenance of traffic during construction should be addressed
prior to the commencement of construction. This should include the
construction of the interchanges at 131St Street and 106th Street prior to the
balance of construction so that traffic may be easily diverted to nearby
parallel roadways.
B. East-West Continuity across S.R. 431 (Keystone Avenue)
The City should work with present-to the State of Indiana to ensure that any
improvements to SR 431 a proposal for rccommendod actions that will improve local
traffic movement in an east-west fashion, including pedestrian and bicycle traffic as
part of the widoning project.
1. To improve east-west connectivity for pedestrian and bicycle traffic,
pedestrian treatments such as bridges, striped walks, and elongated stops
should be developed at the following key intersections in accordance with
the Alternative Transportation Plan:
A. '106th Street
B. 116th Street
C. Carmel Drive
D. 126th Street
E. Main Street
F. 136th Street
2. Carmel should work with the State of Indiana to determine the feasibility of
urban interchanges at selected locations to reduce noise and light impacts
to nearby residential areas.
3. The City's propec~al should also recommends Measures should be taken to
mitigate the impacts of a six-lane Keystone to adjoining property, to ensure that
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the improvements are attractively designed, of quality materials, and include
extensive landscaping, lighting and signage coneistent with that currently
found in Carreel.
Cooperative action between Carreel, Hamilton County, Indianapolis/Marion County, and
INDOT, is currently under way to study land use and transportation issues in the 96th
Street Corridor from Keystone Avenue, west to the Hamilton County line. A draft The
report, with recommendations for improvements, has been submitted by the study
committee, and is anticipated to begin the final public comment phase. It is hoped that
the report recommendations will be adopted by all municipal/government agencies, and
citizen organizations who participated in the study.
C. Adequate Road Cal3acitv to Serve Community and Regional Eml~lovment
Growth Areas
Again it must be noted that in the 2020 Visioning process, citizens were cautiously
encouraging of the continued need to expand the commercial/industrial tax base
through business growth if the negative impacts of that growth could be mitigated and
contained. The following actions are recommended to deal with this objective:
1. The 1991 Land Use and Thoroughfare Plan recognized the controlled growth
potential of the community/regional employment area along the Meridian Corporate
Corridor/U.S. 31 corridor. In order to accommodate anticipated growth and yet
mitigate traffic impacts on the adjacent residential community areas, a network of
three (3) support roadways parallel to U.S. 31 are recommended to be developed
as Secondary Parkways as follows:
A) On the east, this roadway involves the extension of Pennsylvania Street from
103rd Street to terminate logically at Illinois Street north of 131't Street. te
Old Meridian Street
B) the improvement of Old Meridian, between Pennsylvania and 136th Street.
C) e;,,,;I.,,~,, Illinois Street from 96th Street to '136th Street This construction
would include widening the Spring Mill Road bridge., on the west side of US
31, nccds to be developed to provide business access and preserve the integrity
of Spring Mill as a Residential P-',rkway community area collector road.
D) Range Line Road from Sinekey Row Road to 146th Street.
2. To enhance east-west mobility in the US 31 Corridor as well as help rejuvenate the
Old Town area, the City should work with the State of Indiana to immediately
connect Main Street,-eit4ae~ with an interchange above or below grade crossing.
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To enhance mobility within the Carmel Drive community/regional employment area,
Carmel Drive should be upgraded to secondary arterial status, to include a multi-
use paths on at least one side, as indicated on the Thoroughfare Plan and
Alternative Transportation Plan. Accordingly, a plan to minimize and consolidate
commercial access cuts onto Carmel Drive should be devised and approved by the
Board of Works.
As urbanization continues in the northern areas of Carmel/Clay Township and
southern Washington Township, east-west access shall s .~c!n.G tc continue to be a
emerge as being critical issue. For this reason, improvements to 146th Street and
131 st Street should be constructed in the soonest possible time frame, as per the
thoroughfare plan recommendations:
- 146th as a Primary Arterial with a 150-foot right-of-way, a center turn-lane,
landscape buffering and separated multi-use pathways along each side;
Main Street (1 31st Street) as a landscaped boulevard (neighborhood
residential parkway), with a 100-foot wide right-of-way, landscaped median and
including separated multi-use pathways alternative transportation elements,
D. Overall Community Mobility Recommendations
As Carreel Clay Township approaches its build-out over the next twenty-years per-ied,
and high growth rates continue to be exhibited in adjacent Westfield-
Washington Township, Fishers-Fall Creek Township and Noblesville, planning to ensure
adequate roadway capacity within Carmel and Clay Township must take place to
accommodate projected levels of regional growth. Based on the proposed land use
plan and the associated commensurate traffic in Carmel/Clay Township as well as the
adjacent communities tc':;nch!ps, the following recommendations are made:
1. Carmel and Clay Township should make every effort to implement the
recommendations in this chapter, as well as those recommendations illustrated on
both the Thoroughfare Plan map, and Alternative Transportation Plan Component
map.
2. In order to discourage the further geographic bifurcation of Clay Township by U.S.
31 the City should work proactively with the Indiana Department of Transportation to
include enhanced east-west, multi-modal access, as part of their proposed U.S. 31
Freeway upgrade.
3. In order to enhance the ability of the Meridian Corporate Corridor area to attract
and retain high-quality businesses, a network of support roads must be
constructed, including Pennsylvania Parkway, Illinois Street, Old Meridian Street,
and Range Line Road. These roads should be constructed in the form of
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146th Street
141st Street
131st Street
CERTIFICATION OF CARMEL/CLAY
PLAN COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION
ON THE ADOPTION OF THE U.S. 31 INTERIM
REPORT, AND THOROUGHFARE
PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS
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The Honorable Connnon Council
of the City of Carmel
Hamilton County, Indiana
Dear Members:
The Cannel/Clay Plan Commission offers you the following recommendation upon the
adoption of a resolution to accept the US 31 Interim Report and Thoroughfare clean-up
language, with the inclusion of a small, connecting street off 99th Street from West
Shelbome.
The Cannel/Clay Plan Commission's recommendation on the adoption of the US 31
Interim Report and Thoroughfare clean-up language, is "FAVORABLE."
At its regularly scheduled meeting of August 21, 2001, the Carmet/Clay Plan
Commission voted 13 in favor, none opposed.
CARMEL/CLAY PLAN COMMISSION
DATED: August 30, 2001
RECEIVED
T,qEASUi~ER