HomeMy WebLinkAboutLetter #2 Josh & Linda AdamsDate: 6/24/2024
To: Bric Butler, PC/BZA Meeting Coordinator bbutler@carmel.in.gov
From: Linda Adams, Carmel Resident, 12022 N Gray Rd.
RE: Oppose Docket No. PZ-2024-00083 SE UDO Section 2.09 Residential Special Exception.
I noticed the Zoning Variance Signage at the property at 4423 E. 116th Street. Requesting a Special variance
request to convert a residential home to a nursing home for dementia patients.
In looking up the documents, my husband and I are opposed to this request. We live 0.6 miles from this
location. We also live on a busy road, like 116th St., and do not want the precedence set that residential
housing stock will be converted to group homes and nursing homes in areas already zoned for residential only.
Our objections are as follows:
1. The Zoning Change application includes a narrative from the new property owner describing a
business and not a residential use. This is a franchise business designed to enable the owner/investor
to profit from this model despite having no background in patients care or dementia patient care.
2. The proposed remodel and expansion of this home plans to add 1371 sq fit to the 1900 sq current
home, eliminate the garage space completely, and add 7 bedrooms and 3 ½ baths (total 10 bedrooms,
5 1/5 baths) to the home with the addition stretching into the backyard all the way to the back property
line no build line. This puts this nursing home business too close to family occupied homes.
3. With the garage being eliminated, valuable green space will be eliminated in favor of the installation of
large parking lot covering the majority of the front lawn of this current residential home. Inside Storage
of trash cans and other items will be lost.
4. Security of home and for dementia patients not described in narrative. We have both worked with
dementia patients in a locked unit at the Indiana Veterans Home in West Lafayette. Patients escaping
the locked unit was common and it was often very hard to chase them down and prevent them leaving
the vast veterans home property. The home at 116th St. is very close to a very busy road, wooded
areas, creeks, and a golf course with lakes. This could cause a strain on our public safety system
when patients are lost due to the in adequate level of staffing planned; especially at night (1 staff
member).
5. Group homes do not make good neighbors. We have lived in a neighborhood with two group homes.
They did not make good neighbors. Parking, staffing problems, resident and staff fights were common.
The properties exterior were never maintained and the lack of garage and parking space was always a
problem, as well as, the quality of the staff.
I request that the Zoning hearing officer reject this application. I recommend that investors not purchase
homes with the intention of entering the zoning variance process after they have taken ownership of the home,
rather, they should enter the zoning process as a condition of their purchase offer, so that they are not left with
a home they do not intend to live in when and if their variance request is rejected. This investor assumed
much when buying this home and it is unfair to the neighbors for an investor to want to convert a residential
home to a business use.
We appreciate your consideration of our thoughts,
Thank you,
Jason and Linda Adams, 12022 Gray Rd., Carmel