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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE
CARMEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
HEARING OFFICER
Docket No. PZ-2025-00078 DP/ADLS
Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board
of Zoning Appeals Hearing Officer meeting on the
23rd day of June 2025 at 5:15 p.m. in the Carmel
City Hall, 2nd Floor Council Chambers Room,
1 Civil Sq., Carmel, IN 46032, will hold a Public
Hearing upon a Development Standards Variance
application to: Seek approval to increase the
maximum front setback off Grand Vue Drive to
33.1 feet, exceeding the allowable 20-foot limit
under The District PUD Ordinance. This variance
is necessary to ensure compliance with other
ordinance requirements including maintaining a
minimum elevation of 2 feet above the sidewalk
for townhome units as required by The District
PUD Ordinance and ensuring adequate cover
over the sanitary lateral in accordance with City of
Carmel Utilities standards.
With the property being known as 1260
Fairfax Manor Drive, Carmel, IN 46032.
The application is identified as Docket No.
PZ-2025-00078 DP/ADLS.
The real estate affected by said application is
described as follows: Tax Parcel ID 17-09-26-04-
05-079.001
The petition may be examined on the City’s
website, through Public Documents - Laserfiche.
All interested persons desiring to present their
views on the above application, either in writing or
verbally, will be given an opportunity to be heard
at the above-mentioned time and place.
Gehan Mendis of American Structurepoint,
Inc., on behalf of John McKenzie of McKenzie
Homes
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HUMOR
The naked truth about locking myself out
Dick Wolfsie is an author,
columnist and speaker. Contact
him at wolfsie@aol.com.
Commentary by Dick Wolfsie
This happened many years ago. I’m re-
visiting it this week because once again,
I locked myself out of the
house. This time, it was in
broad daylight, and I had all
my clothes on, a distinct improvement from
20 years ago. It’s worth retelling the story.
I had just arrived home from a dinner,
pulled into the garage about 11 p.m. and
entered the house through the door inside
the garage. My wife Mary Ellen was asleep
upstairs. I quietly went into the bedroom
and undressed, but before putting on my
sleeping shorts, I decided to run down-
stairs and grab a small bottle of fruit juice
from the garage fridge. I retrieved the drink
and turned the knob to reenter the house.
The knob refused to budge. “No way,” I said
to myself. And no clothes, either. I was
locked out. Buck naked.
I banged on the door with both fists, bel-
lowing Mary Ellen’s name. No response. The
bedroom door was probably closed and the
ceiling fan was whirring. On a scale from 1
to 10 to be heard, I would need to make a
disturbance that was a seven on the Rich-
choices: A lovely 40-gallon black garbage
bag or the 34-gallon clear plastic bags. I
look terrible in black, but the other option
seemed, well, redundant. Instead, I just
opened the garage door and made my
way along the side of the house. Then, as
I neared the backyard, I bolted toward the
deck, up the steps and into the living room.
The next morning, I decided not to tell
Mary Ellen what happened. I wasn’t in the
mood to be made fun of. But I had forgotten
about that voicemail. She called me from
work later that day.
“Dick, I just listened to the oddest mes-
sage. Last night, about the time you were
supposed to get home, there was a naked
man in our garage. Now, who in heaven’s
name could that have possibly been?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea, Mary Ellen.”
I figured she’d never find out. I didn’t
leave my name on that voicemail.
“I remembered that sometimes I
leave the back door of the house
unlocked. All I had to do was sneak
around and go through the entrance
on the deck. Still without a stitch.”
– DICK WOLFSIE
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Commentary by Terry Anker
Famed Ohioan Jennifer Crusie once
opined, “if you can’t be a good example,
then be a terrible warning.” Aside from her
exceptional work in advancing
strong female protagonists in
her books, she framed the real-
ity of most of our lives. Whether we choose
to acknowledge it or not, we are either
modeling good behavior or demonstrating
bad. The standard is binary. We cannot
claim to hold neutrality because it does not
exist. There is no point of zero.
Others are always watching. Many
have specific expectations and biases to
confirm, or disprove, with every commu-
nication, verbal or otherwise. We don’t
choose by whom, when or what context
we are being observed. Politicians, celeb-
rities and religious leaders work hard to
curate what we, the public, are allowed to
see. Most hire professional manipulators
at marketing and public relations firms, in
their words, to “control the narrative” of
our thought.
Then-NBA star Charles Barkley cashed
Embracing the paradox
Terry Anker is an associate editor of
Current Publishing, LLC. You may email
him at terry@youarecurrent.com.
in on the tension that we want to be
watched without being judged in his 1993
Nike commercial where he chastised us
with, “I am not a role model. I’m not paid to
be a role model.” So what? Does this make
him less culpable for his actions? Likewise,
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, notorious-
ly demands privacy while pandering for
attention, so much so that the television
comedy “South Park” dedicated a special to
satirizing him and his American wife.
We can follow those exemplars, or we
can learn from the flaws of those who are
not. And in our own lives, do we see our-
selves as only one or the other? If we can
be both a “good example” and a “terrible
warning” on any given day, how do we
reconcile our weaknesses? Barkley and
the Duke deny them. Crusie embraces the
paradox.
ter scale. Mary Ellen can sleep through any-
thing. Except for my snoring.
I called Mary Ellen’s cellphone. It went
to voicemail. Out of habit, I left a message:
“Hello, Mary Ellen. If you get this, I’m in the
garage with no clothes on. When you have
a moment, could you come downstairs and
let me in?”
I didn’t imagine she would check for
messages at 11:30 p.m. Now, what was
I going to do? I remembered that some-
times I leave the back door of the house
unlocked. All I had to do was sneak around
and go through the entrance on the deck.
Still without a stitch.
I now needed to give some serious con-
sideration to my wardrobe. But what was
appropriate for this occasion? I had two
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