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Butler, Bric
From:Dee Fox <dasfox2009@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 1:06 PM
To:Butler, Bric
Subject:Letter to Plan Commissioners for the May 21, 2024 meeting, RE PUD Amend:
Jackson's Grant Village - Daycare.
Hi Bric,
Please distribute my email below to the Plan Commissioners for tonight's 5/21/24 meeting, RE Docket
No. PZ-2023-00227 PUD Amend: Jackson's Grant Village - Daycare.
Thank you!
Dee Fox
To Plan Commissioners:
I ask you to please send either a No Recommendation or an Unfavorable Recommendation to City
Council, RE the proposed PUD Amend: Jackson's Grant Village (JGV) - Daycare:
* You all know the details of the original JGV rezone to a PUD in order to allow/push commercial creep
across Spring Mill Road into West Carmel, in spite of years of City assurances to concerned West Carmel
residents that this would not be allowed to happen. In response to strong opposition to the JGV rezone,
from both Jackson's Grant residents and other West Carmel residents, the PUD rezone was pushed
through with assurances that the commercial "node" would be small, corner-store-type commercial on
the SE corner, and the PUD would have commercial space size limitations of 20,000 sq. ft. total and a
maximum of 5000 sq. ft./tenant. (Daycare a permitted use in that location.) This PUD amendment
proposal would now also throw those City assurances out the window. Here we go again.
* This proposal is not about a Daycare. It is about Zoning and Trust. If this proposal is approved, the
clear message perceived by Carmel residents is that they cannot trust City assurances, or even written
PUD rezone "limitations". Those could be changed again, in order to obtain even more development that
the planners/petitioners/developers want, after "the foot is in the door". The original JGV rezone was a
huge exception to the permitted density and uses for that location, and now this proposal to change it
again would allow an additional 10,000 sq. ft. of commercial space while also continuing commercial
creep further west.
* I recommend that if the former Cunningham property is added into the JGV PUD, that it be used to
provide some "Missing Middle" residential housing that the Mayor's Housing Task Force is saying is
desperately needed, and/or to provide needed meaningful amenities for JGV residents. The housing
could be townhouses as originally envisioned in the JGV PUD, or housing aimed at senior citizens/empty-
nesters or starter families. If the proposed Daycare facility cannot be, or is not desired to be, located
within the existing PUD's approved 20,000 sq. ft. of commercial space that already permits that use, then
please do not send a favorable recommendation to City Council.
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Thank you for considering my comments about this proposed PUD amendment,
Dee Fox
West Carmel
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