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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDept Report 12-18-01 u u CARMEL/CLA Y PLAN COMMISSION DEPARTMENT REPORT December 18, 2001 1h. Docket No. 135-01 Z, 136-01 CPA; Home Place District Overlay Zone & Comprehensive Plan Policies Petitioner seeks a favorable recommendation for the establishment of the Home Place District Overlay Zone & Comprehensive Plan Policies. The area affected is generally known as Home Place. Filed by the Department of Community Services for the Home Place Task Force. The Home Place Task Force was formed to create Comprehensive Plan policies and an Overlay Zone that would serve the Home Place area. Several factors make this area particularly sensitive now and in the future for redevelopment. First, the US 31 upgrade with a potential interchange to be located at 106th Street. Second, the recent road improvements on Pennsylvania Street. Last, the availability of relatively reasonably priced real estate. These factors will make the Home Place area even more viable for commercial development in the future. Recognizing this and the need to protect the established neighborhoods, the Task Force set out to establish basic design standards to guide commercial development and redevelopment in the area. Within the entire area (bounded on the east by the Monon Trail, on the west by Pennsylvania Street, on the south by 1-465 and on the north by 116th Street), commercial development, redevelopment, renovations, and additions would be required to comply with the general guidelines for landscaping, lighting, parking, pedestrian circulation, and material storage. Those properties falling within the Home Place Business District (around the intersection of 106th Street & College Avenue) and the West Home Place Commercial Corridor (east side of Pennsylvania Street) would have, in addition, site design, architectural, and buffer standards that would ensure commercial development would be compatible with and sensitive to nearby neighborhoods. The proposed Overlay Zone and Comprehensive Plan policies attempt to foster growth in this area by focusing commercial development in areas where it already exists and establishing reasonable design standards to protect residential areas. The standards proposed are drawn from the Comprehensive Plan policies and from standards established in other Overlay Zones throughout the Township. The standards are based on significant public input and by examining development patterns within the area. The goal is to maintain the urban village character while accommodating future development or redevelopment. The Department recommends that this item be forwarded to the Special Studies Committee on January 8th for further discussion.