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DEPARTMENT REPORT
JUNE 15, 2010
1. Docket No. 10040004 Z: Howard House, Inc. Rezone (Orin Jessup Land Company's 1st
Addition, lots 142(pt) 144). The applicant seeks approval to rezone 0.31 acres at 10620 Bellefontaine
St., from the R -3 /Residence to the B -7 /Business Zoning Classification, within the Home Place Business
District Overlay. Filed by Barker Law Offices, on behalf of Howard House, Inc.
In 1979, the southern half of this site received Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approval to have an outdoor
parking storage lot for a body shop, at 10614 Bellefontaine St. A residential bungalow structure currently
exists on the northern half of this site, but this proposed rezone would permit more land uses, including
multiple family dwelling, office, and retail on the entire site.
The Carmel Clay Comprehensive Plan (C3Plan) marks this area of Home Place as a Commercial Vitality
Node, to establish areas for community- serving and neighborhood serving commercial development with
opportunity to integrate mixed uses.
Since the site lies within the Home Place Business District Overlay, the land uses are viewed as compatible
with the Overlay's purpose and intent, as written in the Zoning Ordinance:
This zone is intended to foster urban neighborhood village -like commercial activity, in keeping with the
intention of the Comprehensive Plan. It is to contain office and retail uses that are of an intensity and scale
compatible with the surrounding residential areas, both in scale and architecture. These commercial uses
should provide services and support the existing residential areas and nearby U.S. 31 Commercial Corridor.
The purpose of this section is to provide site design requirements that orient buildings to the street and are
pedestrian in scale. The object is to align buildings in. order to create a sense of an outdoor room,
encompassing sidewalks and the street.
Please view the petitioner's information packet for further detail.
After all comments and concerns are addressed, the Dept of Community Services (DOCS) requests
that the Plan Commission suspends its rules of procedure and votes to forward this item to the City
Council with a positive recommendation.