HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC-03-18-02-01 Home Place Comp Plan CARMEL CITY COUNCIL
March 18,2001
7. Resolution No. CC-03-18-02-01, Home Place Comprehensive Plan
Policies
- PC Docket No. 136-01 CPA
Petitioner seeks approval of a resolution adopting Comprehensive Plan Policies for the
establishment of the Home Place District 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.
*This information has also been provided under separate cover in your Council packet.
This Resolution is one of three parts the Council will be acting on to implement the proposed
Home Place Overlay. This Resolution adopts new comprehensive plan policies for Home
Place. Another item on this same agenda, Ordinance Z-375-02, (see tab number 5),
establishes the text for the Home Place Overlay in the Zoning Ordinance. Another Ordinance
addressing the area where the text will be applied to the zoning map, a map amendment will
be submitted to the Council at the April 1, 2002 meeting. It could be acted upon at the same
time as the Ordinance.
The Department recommends that the Council adopt this resolution.
Brief description and background information;
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 I-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.
Council Report 2002-3-8.rtf SCAN N ED.
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.
Council Report 2002-3-8.rtf
111th Str
106th
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Home Place District
Overlay Zone Map
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.11.11. West Home Place Commercial ~orridor-High Intensity
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Home Place Business District