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CARMEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
HEARING OFFICER: DEPARTMENT REPORT
June 27, 2005
3d. BFI Properties Warehouse Expansion
The applicant seeks the following development standards variance:
Docket No. 05060004 V ZO Chapter 26.04.01 perimeter landscape buffering
The site is located at 485 Gradle Drive and is zoned I-l/Industrial.
Filed by Mark Monroe of Wooden & McLaughlin.
General Info:
The Petitioner seeks
approval for perimeter
landscape buffering
reduction. The site is
located in an industrial zone
and is going to do a
building expansion.
Analysis:
The site is located In an
industrial zone. The
petitioner is inn the process
'of working with the Urban
Forester on the landscape
plan and the species of
trees.
Findings of Fact: perimeter plantings/buffering
1.) The approval of this variance will not be injurious to the public health, safety, morals,
and general welfare of the community because: the area is zoned industrial where one might
think that vast landscape buffering adjacent to other industrial uses is not necessary.
2.) The use and value of the area adjacent to the p~operty included in the variance will not be
affected in a substantially adverse manner because:
the area is zoned industrial where one might think that vast landscape buffering adjacent to
other industrial uses is not necessary.
3.) The strict application of the terms of the Zoning Ordinance to the property will result in
practical difficulties in the use of the property because:
The petitioner will have to provide the width of planting areas and number of plantings as
prescribed by the Zoning ordinance, which may make the building expansion project
unachievable.
Recommendation:
The Department recommends positive consideration of Docket No. 05060004 V with the installation
of landscaping suggested by the Urban Forester.