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CARMEL/CLAY PLAN COMMISSION
SPECIAL STUDIES COMMITTEE
DEPARTMENT REPORT
January 8, 2002
4. Docket No. 148-01 CA (Commitment Amendment) - Hazel Dell Corner
Petitioner seeks Commitment Amendment approval to revise the list of special uses
permitted on Lots 2, 3, and 4 within the Hazel Dell Corner Subdivision. The site is
located at the northwest corner of East 131 st Street and Hazel Dell Parkway. The site is
zoned B-3/Business.
Filed by Paul G. Reis of The Reis Law Firm for Plum Creek Partners, LLC.
The Public Hearing on this item was held on December 18th. There were no comments from the
public and the Commission sent the item to the Special Studies Committee without additional
comments.
The applicant is proposing to amend the zoning commitments for lots 2,3, and 4 ofthe Hazel
Dell Corner commercial subdivision. Please refer to your informational booklet for information
on the layout ofthe subject lots within the subdivision. Lots 2 and 3 have yet to be developed.
The Department has no objection to the exclusion of uses from lot 4 as proposed by the
applicant.
However, the Department has reservations about permitting a freestanding restaurant use on the
remainder oflot 4, lot 2, or lot 3. Allowing freestanding restaurant uses may serve to limit the
amount of neighborhood retail uses that would otherwise be provided at this location. It is our
belief the restaurant use was excluded at the time of the rezone based on this observation. As an
alternative, providing the ability to allow some portion of a multi-tenant building to be occupied
by one or two smaller restaurant uses should not serve to diminish the character of the area and
intent of providing a location for neighborhood commercial uses at this location.
The Department is not opposed to allowing low intensity restaurant use to be permitted as a
tenant(s) within the multi-tenant building approved on lot 4 or within future multi-tenant
buildings on lots 2 or 3. Specifically, low intensity would be defined as a single use that did not
exceed 2,000 gross square feet in area, excluded drive-thru windows, and where the total number
of uses did not occupy more than 30 percent of anyone building.
The Department recommends that the Special Studies Committee forward this item back to
the full Plan Commission with a favorable recommendation after review and approval of
modifications to address the above comments.
Committee Report 2002-1-8.rtf