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DEPARTMENT REPORT
JANUARY 21, 2010
1. Docket No. 09100009 DP /ADLS: Long Branch Market w/ Kroger (Altum's site)
The applicant seeks site plan and design approval for a multi- tenant commercial development with
outlots. The site is located at 11335 N. Michigan Rd. It is zoned B -3 /Business and located partially
within the US 421/Michigan Rd. Overlay Zone. Filed by Robert Barker of Zinkan Barker
Development Co., LLC.
The applicant seeks site plan and design approval for a multi- tenant service and retail center with two outlots.
The site is approximately 22 acres in size. Buildings are comprised mostly cast brick and cast stone. A fuel
center is part of the project. Landscape buffering provided greatly exceeds what the ordinance requires. The
petitioner has entered into a traffic signal agreement with the Indiana Dept of Transportation (INDOT). Adjacent
to the site is a church to the west, Weston Pointe townhomes to the southeast, Weston Pointe retail center to the
south, a funeral home to the north, single family detached homes (Woodhaven) to the north, and a residential
use to the east. Please refer to the petitioner's informational packet for more detail.
Previous 1998 rezone commitments (part of the Altum nursery rezone /project) are proposed to be further
clarified with new proposed commitments on the type of land uses permitted on the site, a limit to the trash
pickup and truck delivery times, specifications on the landscape buffering, architecture requirements, addressing
the sanitary sewer line extension, etc.
BZA variance requests will be heard at the January 26 Board of Zonings Appeals meeting for:
Signage: Frontage on a public street
Signage: three signs for a single tenant building (anchor tenant)
Signage: three signs facing west (anchor tenant)
Signage: maximum sign area (anchor tenant)
Signage: type of changeable copy for a sign
Signage: copy, multi tenant building complex directory sign
Signage: maximum height of multi- tenant building complex identification sign
drive -thru location on building (might be withdrawn)
perimeter fence design (will be withdrawn)
maximum 75% gross floor area permitted for retail uses (might be withdrawn)
maximum building setback from US 421 right of way (might be withdrawn)
Staff's outstanding issues or comments:
1. Petitioner should provide an update on their correspondence with the adjacent neighbors and their concerns.
2. The Forestry Dept. has no issues with the Landscape Plan Tree Preservation Plan. This submittal not only
meets the requirements of the Michigan Road Overlay, but in terms of most perimeter buffer yards, it far
exceeds the requirements. The petitioner has attempted to preserve all existing trees (planted as a buffer for
Altum's) and plant the additional plant material required as a new buffer, too.
3. The Hamilton County Surveyor's Office's preliminary review of the plans is positive.
4. This project is located outside the jurisdiction of the Carmel Engineering Dept.
5. The Planning Dept. contacted Williams Realty Group (leasing rep. for Weston Pointe retail) about the
internal driveway connection proposed between the two sites; follow up will occur by the Dept. or the
Petitioner.
6. The Department requests the Petitioner add the following to the B Shop signage specifications: "a logo may
be 25% of the total sign area and is not limited in color as well as adding a restriction regarding the
maximum length of a sign (i.e. 80% of tenant space width). This would help clarify requirements when a
tenant obtains a sign permit.
7. Please specify what sign is located over the Pharmacy drive thru. It is not called out in the info packet.
8. Please consider requiring one color (font style may be different) for all tenant names (text) on the monument
sign for the center in addition to requiring the same background color of all tenant panels. This would help
give a cohesive look to the sign and would be consistent with other monument signs in the Corridor.
The Dept of Community Services (DOCS) recommends that the Commission forwards this item to the
February 2 Special Studies Committee meeting for further review /discussion.
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