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Exhibit “D”
PROJECT DESCRPITION
The applicant, Schafer Development LLC, (“Schafer”), is requesting rezone approval for a planned
unit development in order to develop an empty-nester, active-adult for-sale residential community (the
“Request”). The subject site includes three (3) parcels of real estate that are under common ownership,
which parcels consist of approximately 14.3 acres and are located south of and adjacent to 146th Street,
west of Gray Road and east of and adjacent to the Salsberry Brothers landscape company (the “Real
Estate”). The Real Estate is currently zoned R-1 Residential and the request seeks approval of the
Andrews Planned Unit Development District (the Andrews PUD”).
Per the proposed concept plan and the Andrews PUD, the community will consist of sixty (60)
empty-nester, active-adult homes (paired duplex homes and townhomes) that feature the primary bedroom
and bathroom on the main level. The proposed builder is Pulte Homes and the Andrews PUD has specific
architectural design standards and requirements that all homes must comply with. Further, the Andrews
PUD also has specific requirements for the community amenities, including a small proposed dog park
area to be located adjacent to 146th Street, as well as requirements for landscaping, street trees, perimeter
buffering and tree preservation and open space requirements.
Some of the ways in which the Andrews PUD meets the policy goals and objectives of the Carmel
Comprehensive Plan 2020 (the “Comp Plan”) include, but are not limited to: (i) the proposal fosters and
provides a sense of community and neighborhood identity via its layout, dog park area, community
garden plots and common area/pond area that should encourage neighbor interaction, contact and
relationship building; (ii) the empty-nester, active-adult home product (paired duplex homes and
townhomes) will provide existing residents of Carmel an option to “right-size” from their existing
traditional home to a new home that better suits their lifestyle and allows them to “age in” Carmel as they
move through different life stages, while at the same time “freeing up” other existing Carmel homes to the
re-sale market that should serve to attract new residents to Carmel and allow existing Carmel families to
“move up” within Carmel which would provide younger families an opportunity to backfill the
moderately priced re-sale homes; and, (iii) the location of the Real Estate and site layout should promote
and encourage opportunities for the residents of this community to walk or bike to many local businesses
by utilizing the multi-use path that runs along 146th Street, which multi-use path also provides a
connection to the Hagen-Burke Trail and the Hagen-Burke Trail then connects to the Monon Trail.