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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCorrespondence I \="lLf coP1 To: Sub-Division Committee From: Eric Seidensticker Re: Agenda items 9/4/2007 Concerns over C2 Rezone on 3rd Ave SW (Old Town District) Q Building Height concerns around Manon trail. " Current 22% commercial vacancy. Increasing pressure to those unfilled properties by building more competing buildings. II Negative impact on city center development and arts and design district as the major developer is struggling to complete projects near this area. D Removing light-industrial from the City of Carmel may have negative impact on the balance of the community in general. Concerns over Holiday Inn Express Project: e Parking is not nearly high enough, pennitting ''borrowing'' of spaces from an adjacent property owner should not be allowed. Suppose the property is sold and doesn't want to lend those spaces to the HIE. D Increase in traffic to 136th Street is not necessary. This street has plenty oftraffic from the High School and others. With the Justus property on-line, the traffic will increase morning and evening drive times to the already increased traffic flow from the High School. . Ground usage in excess of what is permitted. Majority of the land covered by asphalt or concrete creating significant water run-off issues? o The increase in traffic and volume of people is too close to adjacent residential areas. Please accept these concerns in your discussions this evening. As I am new to this process and have not had nearly enough time to prepare and educate myself as-to the- intents of the Planning Commission, I respectfully ask that these concerns be addressed. State Code requires us on Planning Commission to put the Health and Safety of our citizens first. To this end I appreciate your careful consideration. Respectfully Submitted. Eric Seidensticker Carmel Common Council District 3 August 30. 2007 David L. Sanders 13587 Kensington Place Carmel, Indiana 46032 Mr. Eric Seidensticker Cannel Plan Commission 560 3Jd Avenue SW Cannel, Indiana 46032 Dear Mr. Seidensticker: I am writing you to express my opposition to the proposed Holiday Inn development at 136lh Street and Pro Med Lane. I have attended all of the Planning Commission meetings concerning this and the Justus Office Building project. In order to be as brief as possible I am outlining my reasons below: P ARKING ~ The project does not meet the parking requirements. The applicant, through its attorney, Dave Coots, acknowledges that they are over 40 short of the needed spaces. They are proposing to share parking v.>ith the already approved project of the Justus Office building so the requirements are satisfied. This is wrong. They either have the required parking or they do not. In my opinion, this is just a ploy by the applicant and Justus to try to get the project approved. Consider this scenario; I am a guest at the Holiday Inn and arrive to fmd that the regular parking lot is full and am told 1 can use the Justus Office parking. The only condition is that I must be out of the lot by 8;00 a.m. the next day so the employees of the Justus Office building will have a place to park. This is not realistic. It is interesting that the Holiday Inn project was filed in May before the Justus Office Building project and then was tabled twice and presented after the Justus Building was approved. I also question the applicant's response to a question from a member of the commission regarding the number of employees who would need parking spaces. The representative of Midwest Hospitality said that there would only be 4 or 5 employees there at one time during the week and 7 or 8 employees on the weekend. If it is true that dining, cleaning, maintenance, and desk responsibilities are to be done by this number of employees, I would not recommend this hotel to relatives and friends. In his rebuttal to the opposition to the project, Attorney Coots also said that the residents of Kensington Place would not be affected because it was one property removed, yet he proposed parking of the overflow guests in the Justus lot adjacent to our neighborhood. All night parking and the related noise and lights obviously would directly affect our residents. In fact, it would practically be in some of our residents' very small backyards. When the Justus Office Building project was approved, our neighborhood association president spoke on our behalf and welcomed the project because we knew someday there would be development there and the project was one that appeared to be neighborhood friendly and have minimal disruption to our lives. It now appears that since the Office Building project was approved Justus, owner of the entire property site, is doing everything possible to assure that the 2.7 acres to be used for hotel brings the maximum profit from sale. ~ .. 2 TRAFFIC - The prqject would bring too much additional traffic to an already congested intersection of Old Meridian Street and Smokey Row Road (136th Street). Our association president addressed this issue in opposition comments at the last commission meeting. A traffic study was ordered that should confIrm our contention. It should be noted, however, that traffic at this time at that location is less than normal because of the temporary closures of Old Meridian Street and Smokey Row Roads for major construction projects. On this subject, I also question Mr. Coots' response to the opposition. He stated that the full service restaurant would only be available to guests through vouchers and the conference facilities 'would not be available to anyone not staying at the hotel. Thus, there would be no additional traffic or disruption to the neighbors created by outside persons. I know of no other hotel with full service restaurdIlt and conference rooms that are limited only to guests. 65% RULE - There is no way this project meets the requirement of this rule. From the minimal information presented, it appears that the hotel building and the parking lot will engulf almost the entire 2.7 acres. There would be little, if any, room left for landscaping and tree preservation. I question if this is the reason the landscaping, aerial views and other related plans have not been submitted to the commission. The project is simply too large for the site. I respectfully urge that your do not approve this project if it comes to a commission vote. It is the wrong project for this site. The residents of Kensington Place realize that this property is Zoned B6. We knew that when we purchased or built our home here. Most of us are retired and we were looking for a nice place with minimal maintenance, convenient location, and minimal disruption from surroundings. At the time, there were office and medical buildings to our South. We knew that the woods on the site would not always be there, but we believed and trusted that any business that would eventually locate there would be in keeping with the present buildings and would be proper for the site. As I previously stated, we accepted Justus Office building because it appears to be proper for the area and our neighborhood. The Holiday Inn project is not! Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, ~/~ David L. Sanders Page 1 of2 Conn, Angelina V From: Dorman, Jay Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:49 AM To: Conn, Angelina V Subject: C-2 rezone Please inform the members of the Subd committee of my feelings regardin~-2 r' zone. . ~ In sum, I'm ok with all rezone requests except for the following:.}, I~ ,Lr, M{!/'J-'h (JI~ ~~J-:J. r .tOw;@\.t-1r.'1 tn. 'f V .--- IV' v . r : ~: Confirm...somehow..perhaps In writing....that the VFW wants to be included, and / . The parcel that should NOT be included is the farthest west single parcel on 1 st St. SW. I believe the address to be V 11 First St SW. It is a single parcel sitting by itself and is presently zoned R-2. Otherwise I support the re zone of large contiguous parcels. The one piece on First St SW does not makes sense. Regards, Jay From: Conn, Angelina V Sent: Tue 8/28/2007 9:01 AM To: Dorman, Jay Cc: Hancock, Ramona B; Stewart, Lisa M Subject: RE: Agendas for September 4 Committee meetings - Thank you for letting us know. Angie Conn, Planning Administrator Dept. of Community Services - Planning & Zoning 1 Civic Square, 3rd Floor City of Carmel, IN 46032 p.317-571-2417 f,317-571-2426 aconn@carmel.in.gov From: Dorman, Jay Sent: Monday, August 27,2007 10:29 AM To: Conn, Angelina V Subject: RE: Agendas for September 4 Committee meetings I will NOT be able to attend on September 4th. From: Conn, Angelina V Sent: Fri 8/24/2007 1: 11 PM To: 'Angie Malt'; Boone, Rachel M.; Brewer, Scott I; 'Bruce Smith'; 'Carolyn Schleif; Coy, Sue E; Donahue-Wold, Alexia K; Dorman, Jay; Duncan, Gary R; Hancock, Ramona B; Heck, Nancy S; Hollibaugh, Mike P; Holmes, Christine B; 'John Molitor'; Keeling, Adrienne M; 'Kevin Heber'; 'Kevin Rider'; 'Leo Dierckman'; 'Linda Burdett - Ham Co PC; Littlejohn, David W; 'Madeleine Torres'; 'Marilyn Anderson'; Molitor, John R; 'Richard Heck (webteam@heckweb.net)'; 'Rick Osborn'; 'Rick Ripma'; 'Ron Houck'; 'Sally Shapiro (SallyShapiro@indy.rr.com)'; Seidensticker, Eric; 'Steve Stromquist'; Stewart, Lisa M; 'Susan Westermeier'; Tingley, Connie S; 'Wayne Haney (Haneywh@aol.com)' Cc: 'Nancy Long'; 'Todd Erb'; 'Reis, Paul'; 'staceyf@deboyland.com'; Michael L. DeBoy; 'dolmstead@stoeppelwerth.com'; Olds, Les; 'jenny@theginkgotree.net'; 'HARTMANN_CARL_E@LILLY.COM'; 'Jim Shinaver'; 'Thomas Mesuk'; 'tslakes@mirandacanstruction.com'; 'DavidDean@usadv.net'; 'Reis, Paul'; 'Darci Pellom'; 'Dave Coats'; 8/29/2007 Page 1 of 1 Keeling, Adrienne M From: Keeling, Adrienne M Sent: Monday, July 30,200711 :13 AM To: Stewart, Lisa M Cc: Coy, Sue E; Hollibaugh, Mike P; Conn, Angelina V; Brewer, Scott I; Hancock, Ramona B; Brennan, Kevin S; Littlejohn, David W; DeVore, Laura B; Lillard, Sarah N; Holmes, Christine B; 'jmolitor@prodigy.net'; Boone, Rachel M.; Tingley, Connie S; Duncan, Gary R; Olds, Les Subject: Docket No. Assignment: (Z) SW Old Town C-2 Rezoning (#07070024 Z) I have issued the necessary Docket Number for (Z) SW Old Town C-2 Rezoning. It is the following: Docket No. 07070024 Z $0.00 (exempt) Total Fee: $0.00 Docket No. 07070024 Z: SW Old Town C-2 Rezoning The applicant seeks approval to rezone 57 parcels from R-2/Residence, B-1/Business, B-2/Business, B-3/Business and 1-1/lndustrial to C-2/0Id Town. The sites are located in Old Town and along Third Avenue SW. Filed by the Carmel Department of Community Services. 1. This Item will not be on an agenda of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). 2. Published Public Notice occurred Friday, July 27, in the Indianapolis Star. 3. Fifteen (15) Informational Packets will be delivered to Plan Commission Secretary Ramona Hancock no later than NOON, Friday, August 10, 2007. 4. Proof of Notice will be received by this Department no later than Noon, Friday, August 17,2007. 5. The Item will appear on the August 21,2007 agenda of the Plan Commission (under "Public Hearings"). 6. The Item will also appear on the September 4,2007 agenda of the Plan Commission Special Studies Committee. 7/30/2007