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DEPARTMENT REPORT
June 17, 2003
3h. Docket No. 77-03 Z; (03050030); Hearthview Residential PUD
The applicant seeks to rezone a 6.5 acre parcel from R-1/Residence to a PUD (Planned
Unit Development) District designation. The property is generally located at the
southeast comer of 116`h Street and the Monon Trail.
Filed by Filed by Joseph M. Scimia of Baker and Daniels for Hearthview Residential.
The applicant is requesting a favorable recommendation from the Plan Commission on their
petition to rezone approximately 6.5 acres from R-1 Residential to a Planned. Unit Development
(PUD) District. The following items need to be addressed as part of the review for this request
prior to the Plan Commission forwarding this petition to the City Council:
Is the subject location, based on the Comprehensive Plan, an appropriate location for the
proposed use?
The subject site is on the border between low-intensity (up to 3 units per acre) and
medium-intensity (3-5 units per acre) residential areas. To the north (across 116th Street)
it is bordered by glow-intensity regional /community employment area.
Items to note:
a. Recommended buffers between this use and the lower intensity uses to the
east and south include main roads, open spaces, and landscaping and
screening.
b. Is the intensity and scale of the proposed plan compatible with the surrounding
residential uses?
c. Is Che site naturally buffered from low-intensity residential areas through the
existence of at least one of the following: main roads, institutional buildings,
open space, landscaping and screening?
Do development standards (setbacks, building heights, landscape standards, and
architectural design requirements) reflect a character appropriate between lower intensity
residential uses and the Monon to the west and future commercial to the north?
Items to note:
a. The PUD requires buildings 1 - P/z stories in height with brick and lap siding (see
information booklet).
b. The existing buffer along the Monon is preserved under this plan.
c. The Department has recommended the plan be adjusted so that the two buildings
at the south end face each other. This would reduce the number of homes facing
the three single-family lots to the south from eight, as proposed, down to two.
d. Is the plan providing pedestrian connectivity? The department has recommended
that the applicant look at connecting the site
The Department recommends that this item be forwarded to the Subdivision Committee on
July is` for further discussion.
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William A. Frey
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June 6, 2003
This is to advise you and the Plan Commission members that the
Board of Directors of our Neighborhood Association have voted
unanimously to oppose the rezoning and possible development
proposed under the above captioned subject.
We would like to express our concerns at the June 17, 2003 public
meeting. Our 5-6 speakers will express their personal concerns as
well as that of the 30 households in our association. Our subjects
wit! be property values, traffic, single family vs. multi-family housing,
security issues, quality of life, and the density issues.
For the record, we are opposed to any development for the subject
plat as well as the one contiguous to it on the east side that does not.
conform to our area, and that of Rosemeade subdivision and Fair
Green subdivisions. As an example, only single family, detached
housing, minimum square footage of 2,500 square feet, 60 percent
brick construction, and a density of not more than three units per
acre, and safe prices of $250,000 - $500,000. Any other types of
developr ent will be strongly opposed.
We appreciate the opportunity to express our concerns to the
commission. We hope you will favorably consider our opinions and
desires, and ask that you deny the proposed rezoning request.
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