The URL can be used to link to this page

Newspaper Articles - Group 1 (2) • MARION COUNTY/C-2 ■ CLASSIFIED/C-4—C-16 ■ WEATHER/C-17 • CROSSWORD/C-18 ,h111 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1989 a of coach help represent Childers at the IHSAA Childers noted she played softball several - hearing. years before becoming a paraplegic. She ISTA is the state's largest teachers' said her experience as a player gives her s organization with about 40,000 mem- the ability to anticipate collision situa- r bers. tions and to move out of the way of .e Darko called the ruling "a clear case players. h of discrimination — something a just She and others testified she never has society must not tolerate." been involved in a collision with a player ,y The executive committee of the IHSAA while in the coaching box in her mobility u- is expected to rule within two weeks. aid. :le Childers and others have maintained The ISTA will pursue the case if the al she is a good and prudent coach whose IHSAA executive committee upholds the mobility aid is not a safety problem. preliminary decision against Childers. to In a hearing before Judge Foulke, ISTA officials said. Commuter traffic . . . ... i.:i::....,„:„.„:...,::,,,,,,„„,„.,, . ......... ..:„.„ . .. :.. .. .. .-:.!!!!iplii::-- -- increases cited ... ... .. .. ...... ........ .......... ..., ..,...„... .. .... ....... . . .. ....„. . . .. . . . ... . . ....:!..,.:.,..:...:.:-:.•.,,':,;,,.,•:,.. ..::..,...: .. . in Carmel area ....,....:„.„„„:..:...,.....,.:„....:.......: ..„ By DEBBIE WINCHESTER According to the chart, Key- News Correspondent stone Avenue south of 116th CARMEL, Ind. — "The worst Street carried 29,967 vehicles problem we are looking at now is daily in 1985. Other 1985 traffic not the water, sewage or schools, counts included U.S. 31 south of • but traffic," said Chairman Jeff 116th Street with 28,167 vehi- :: f% Davis at Tuesday night's meet- cies a day, and 116th Street east ;� h `'t of College Avenue with 11,499 : ing of the Carmel Clay Compre- g �`3` hensive Plan update committee. vehicles daily. r�x�`. John Myers of Howard Nee- Counts done in 1982 showed gra dies Tammen & Bergendoff pre- Range Line Road north of 116th ,. Street carrying 14,969 vehicles a '`° sented some statistics on the in- Y g Y " day. Other 1982 data shown on �� crease of traffic in the Carmel ak • area in the last decade. the chart included: A: Myers said he is still gather- • Carmel Drive east of Range ing traffic data and should have Line Road — 10.499 vehicles a updated information from the In- day. Main Street east of Old Me # diana Department of Highways • within the month. ridian Street — 8,364 vehicles a Traffic growth in the area has day. been significant during the • 126th Street east of Range 00...........i.::-1::;,.. •:::::.::•-',..• . 1980s, he said. Line Road — 4.977 vehicles a From 1978 to 1986 there was day. a 123 percent increase in traffic Committee member George on U.S. 31 south of 116th Street, Sweet asked about the cost of Myers said, contrasted with a 4 doing traffic counts and the time percent increase in housing dur- involved. ing those years. "With this much effort," "It shouldn't be a surprise to Sweet said, ". . . if we are talk- anyone . . . It is not residential ing about $2,000 to $3,000 for a growth. It Is commuter growth," traffic count• it may be worth he said. going ahead." Northbound traffic in the eve- Myers said he a ets-m-re= - 1 ning on that segment of U.S. 31 celve counts taken by •the city increased 91 percent between and is still contacting developers 1978 and 1986 and southbound for their traffic count informa- traffic increased 177 percent. tion. Morning traffic in that area Several committee members increased 23 percent in the repeatedly tried to pin Myers ' <<::;° .: northbound lanes and 173 per- down about how much addition- cent in the southbound lanes al traffic counts would cost. ' during the period. Myers said HNTB could do The committee may need traf- additional traffic counts, but fic information on some other that it is not within the engi- routes, he said, since streets neering and planning firm's con- `. 5; ` such as Range Line Road are not tract. He said it might be better included in the state figures. for HNTB to work with city offi- Some of the roads that need cials in gathering the data. _..... ._.:;:1;,...;.m.., _...;;:. t„ ha trarkPrl have not had a "I'm not sure that it is in the ac-,ed by the ship and then that project will be corn- _ —including her plete," she said Thursday afternoon. closed Monday in "We want to have every card in the file ,erans Day. by start of work Monday morning." e taxpayers got through to "Any known clerical error or data in Tuesday. they had had entry error can be corrected on site," she s to fret and stew about er- said. She emphasized this error correc- Lneir reassessment, real or imag- tion process can often eliminate the need for a taxpayer to file an appeal of his .e chaos was further aggravated by assessment. fact that Cole, Layer and Trumble, firm contracted to do the reassess- "We go through the calculation with ant, had not finished printing out the the taxpayer. First we establish there's mputer cards for all of the properties not a problem — maybe they're being the county. charged with something they don't have. That made it impossible to check We also talk about the homestead deduc- iany of the questions about reassess- tion and any exemption they may qualify lent figures. for," she said. Tescher said all of the cards should be For those whose problems can't be printed by the time her office opens next fixed on the spot, the appeal process Monday morning, making it possible to remains open. Appeals must be filed compare property owners' assessment within 30 days of the receipt of the notices with data in the assessor's files. reassessment notice. sayseve o er p an proposed . . . acs imagination ,,,,,,..„,:„ , ' :' F By PATTIE DICK wide enough right-of-ways and .: :< , News Correspondent by attempting to get the develop- „,t '>'^”W."`' CARMEL, Ind. —The Carmel ment community to do exempla- l� .,a„' Clay Comprehensive Plan Up- ry treatments of those (street x �q�., date Steering Committee has , concepts) as it presents .its '.k.,-, 1/4.N•1/4A1/4'..t\'.,' been challenged bya Carmel de- case." �'" s : "' ",. veloper to put more imagination Sweet addressed the concept %'' -. ^'A%'' into planningfor the area's fu- of puttingcommercial "nodes" �� k: T4 , ture. at Towne Road and 116th i• • x George Sweet, president of Street, saying. "Most of the peo- " �� vq Sweet & Co. developers and a pie in that area, some anyway. < ,' committee member, made the are apoplectic about even widen- M statement after viewing a con- ing the road. Even considering .. y sensus land use scheme this putting commercial there is week. , probably more than they could The scheme, submitted by stand." ¢‘ �' > . planners from Howard Needles Sweet said he felt strongly `y <W; "'° ' ' Tammen & Bergendoff. was de- that a metropolitan township- x,' ' veloped from input by the steer- wide government should become ing committee in a meeting earli- an expectation for the future. er this week. "Someone has to pay for all `? , Sweet worried that theplan • � this," Sweet said. "Obviously, t lacks imagination, saying, "1 the development community is , i ,4" wonder whether we've dreamed going to pay for a good deal of it. �t;: ":;-..'",•('"'":<''''''',''' enough. I think we've regurgitat- Some of the people who live here � '� ed what's happened. and I'm not pay things." PPe have to a for these thin s." ,i.,%,<;;1",„'•44.,s.., critical, but hindsight is :� x k 0 usually 20-20, and foresight is "If we are going to raise our '`„ expectations. we have to decide �" , usually muddled." P ;4 yz";" ' , "It seems to me that we're how we as a community are go- •,-4,',<K4,4, o- �� s 7 ing to pay for it." he said.."It ys, a� s ,y' missing an opportunity if in this seems to me one of the things we aA1/4a process we don't charge the fu- ought to charge the future lead- �� ture with some expectations," he g ' � `v4` said. ership (with) is to study the fact i Sweet said a major emphasis that Carmel-Clay could easily be,4.4,..0,.1.,,,,;_, of the update was to betraffic and will be whether you.have. a. improvements. He used the_ex- govenment for-it-or-not. a major ample of boulevards as some- -- city within the next 20 years. S :: thing the committee should con- "It will be a city north of I- F sider. 465. We will have all the prob- "We get too focused on min- lems and opportunities a new n ..' ute details like road widths," he city has. Why shouldn't we have „� . ”" -` .� said, a government in that city?" he A "I personally would like to asked. say I think the boulevard ap- Committee member Jeff Da- „,,,,,,r,,,/,,,,,,-t- proach or the four-lane approach vis, who is president of the Car- '' or the by-pass approach .. . the mel Clay Plan Commission, said signature of a community, if you Sweet had a good point, noting . ,3>:gx will, is its major intersections or the Meridian Corridor was the sly *" result of someone's long-term �� thoroughfares," he said. g' » "These can't be done over- dream. "" <>w3: „• night, but it can be done by The committee will meet in sYs:a �<<;<"�'>".;.E ' continuing expectations and by January to view the traffic sce- -he Indianapolis News setting thoroughfare plans with nario prepared by HNTB. Carmel 's futurs iotly .. t3meeting By .......:., PATTIE DICK sion. asked if the proposed 96th : , Nws Correspondent Street bridge over White River CARMEL, Ind. — Three con- was taken into consideration by cepts for the future of Carmel the planners. ignited heated debate Tuesday night. Keystone traffic The Carmel Clay Comprehen- sive Plan Update steering com- "What do we do with the traf- ` mittee met in special session to fic once it hits Keystone?" Boone S r , let members of the committee, asked. "Do we think it will just magically commission and the public ma g Y disc PPear?" seen plans first shown at a July :- .. , .. .._. He said some areas along 19 meeting. 96th Street will become transi- Joann Green, a landscape ar- tion areas because they will no chitect with Howard Needles longer be desirable places to live. Tammen & Bergendoff showed City Alan Potas- the committee three growth sce- nik said Councilman was at a loss to pick narios — one involving "central a scenario because he did not focus," one envisioning "neigh- know what the public wants the boyhood villages" and a third fi with "corridor linkages." community to be. y Green explained the central Green told the crowd her firm focus scenario would try to focus is fully aware of the lack of on the town center and would public input. She said HNTB will . provide a strong identity for Car- make changes as public senti- mel. ment becomes clear. The neighborhood villages "If we have to start over with concept would provide commer• three different scenarios, we are cial and community areas at ma- ready to do that," Green said. jor intersections. City Councilman Frank Flem- It was not well-received lastby ing said, "This is an update. not the steering committee a new plan." noting only k4:::....---'!:::::4,:::' month. $60000 was allocated for the , Green told the audience that project. scenario is "a response to what very well may happen" in Car- Badger criticized the three .'-q,<4,:,,..,,,,. mel. scenarios, saying, "There's real , r The third proposed scenario ly nothing up there that's us- - the corridor linkages plan — able." r uses existing greenways as link- The HNTB presentation, sheau. ages in the city. said, merely,"stimulated conver- Natural features sation." Committee member Jim Dil- '. Green said this scenario fon said he does not feel the would "let natural features guide committee is to the point of dis- .,,,. ..,.,'„-- future land use" placing corn- cussing scenarios because of a VO mercial uses along existing ma- lack of public input. jor corridors. "Public input has been virtu- Ila Badger, a member of the ally null and void." Dillon said. plan commission and board of Davis told the crowd no deci- zoning appeals. opened the pub- sion will be made on the land , lie debate by saying that al- use plan until the committee r though the neighborhood villages gets adequate public input. concept is not popular, it seems "We are not going to cram to be the direction Carmel is this down someone's throat," heading. Davis explained: 'We will at- Green explained the com- • plaints voiced about the plan in- tempt.as much as die can, to get x elude a lack of central identity as much public input. . . . If we for Carmel and increased traffic have to take longer(than the one near the commercial village ar- year scheduled, we will." The committee meets again at eas. 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8 at the City Plan Commission President Meeting Hall. Jeff Davis said the city's 1985 g comprehensive plan had allowed small neighborhood service cera- Today's Bible Verse ters, not shopping areas. Judy Hagan, a Clay Township Psalm 29:10—The Lord sits resident, disapproved of all three enthroned over the flood; the scenarios. Lord sits enthroned as king for- ;, "I don't see anything that ever. keeps us from being part of the Our Lord is bigger than any Indianapolis sprawl or the Fish- calamity: more magnificent than ers sprawl." she said. any temporal situation. God's Bob Boone, a township repre- reign will know no end. sentative on the plan commis- Prepared by Philip Gulley _ • MARION COUNTY/C-2 1110 • SPORTS/C-4-C-9 ■ BUSINESS/C-10-C-11 /HAMILTON WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1989 Study says r am e traffic will worsen By PATTIE DICK He speculated Indianapolis may become a News Correspondent "bedroom community" for Carmel because the . CARMEL, Ind. — Traffic on Carmel's already study shows an increase in northbound traffic over-capacity streets will increase dramatically during the morning rush hour. within the next five years, a traffic study shows. "We think now is really a time for a coopera- The study by John Myers of Howard Needles tive approach with the Indiana Department of Tammen & Bergendoff was presented Tuesday Transportation, Hamilton County and others who night to the Carmel Clay Comprehensive Plan are involved in this to take a comprehensive, Update Steering Committee. balanced look at this to coordinate the local sys- Myers said the traffic projection was made by tem with the regional system and with the inter- calculating the effects of a build-out of all planned state system," Myers told the Comprehensive Plan developments approved by the Carmel Clay Plan Update Steering Committee. Commission for construction in the last eight Using an estimate of 750 cars an hour on each years. lane, Myers forecast Meridian would need to.be According to the study, Meridian Street faces five lanes each direction between 96th and 116th the most serious traffic problems in the next five streets. years. He said expanding the traffic estimates into a Ron Harrington. a citizen who attended Tues- 24-hour period would show a volume of about day night's meeting, said, " If we think we have 60,000 cars daily on Meridian. seen an increase in traffic in the last five years, Myers said that volume is similar to the vol- it's going to get worse." ume carried by 1-65 near Lafayette Square. Harrington said he is concerned about statis- tics presented by HNTB showing traffic in the Sue Dillon, representing Citizens for the Meridian Corridor doubling in the next five years. Awareness of Greenspace, said, "When we get to "Traffic isn't really doubling as a whole," gridlock and everyone is moving only 15 mph, Myers explained, saying the estimates project driv- Carmel will no longer be a desirable place to live ers using the fastest, most direct route of travel. and we will have strangled ourselves." He said the traffic volume estimates were The next step in the traffic study process is to compiled without taking into account traffic mov- present options to solve the.traffic problem, Myers ing off main thoroughfares onto secondary road- said. ways. The traffic problem will be discussed at the Myers said many drivers using Meridian live in next meeting of the comprehensive plan update Marion County and commute to jobs in the Medd- steering committee at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the ian Corridor. Carmel City Meeting Hall. Purchase of A 4- DrAPN, o happe11 itom Ball to be held this weekend Page 10 ) FRIDAY November 16 ` , 1990 350 A Topics Suburban Newspaper ,............___a___......._________ Delays t own s � Plague By SCOTT B plan . Ledgeledger staff writer CKwELL plan was approved Presentation of the tee and senon tby the commit- r corn- Presentation Plan U Carmel Clay mission for the Plan cnot be delayed Comprehensive siveanoter two date may before committee members but not "Delay" months. mmltmembers made y" the best word to some major changes in o describe the seems theprogresther The changes the Plan• describeve of m- be made by thn plan hadw s was scheduledpaThe project that some delayand there was was r completion about in getting information into its secon1989 is dopy, the changes to the 1 , year. going The delay has planners. The delayapproval brought the approval latest the may set back halt. process to a screeching a city council of to plan update by the Plan Commission The m ssioearliesthe Carmel Cray nearlyas late as May 1991, mringisn couldDecember, hoca two and a half years since publiche he U datcou the project began. means thewhich Plan commission approved by update could be mission members the city were promised a copy of the final March, council by draft of the plan by Oct. 1, but the just received the But plan Commission members just from final draft Tiles- may topostpo ,according public cg to Y Howard Needles T mints until January, d BergendoffArchitects Engineers the Department '�according to Planners, pmentBuof Community the company contracted Development.Because of LO no the update. day season, the holy The latest delaythe commission may corn- last-minute adjustments caused by watt to allow more people to com- 4 j mints to the ment o plan the plan. tcthe final in l meeting of the plan mission merbersmto study the August, the See DELAY page 18• - gyp UntY Comnk ,+ , THE . CARMEL DAILY,,,,, EDITION • , .... . ,Plan plods on , .. .: .. .., �.Committee reviews update draft � a By PATRICIA U.WHITE Rick Brandau, DOCD deputy Ledger editor director, clarified a question from After three hours Wednesday the committee about the strike- • night, the Comprehensive Plan outs and corrections already print Update Committee called it quits ed in the draft. as they plodded through two diffe- Brandau said Joanne Green, rent reviews of the first draft of the HNTB coordinator for the project, • • text of the plan prepared by How- had told him there were technical a n d Needl e s T a m m e n & problems with the disk containingP� Bergendoff. the draft and her understanding The Department of Community was this was a final document.She Development staff prepared eight said,however,she could delete the pages of comments on the draft. .strikeouts, '. When update committee member Chairman Jeff Davis said he 'James C.Dillon arrived,he distrl- would contact Green about cor- buted his six-page review to the recting the draft today. _ � �a `� 1a + t m' other seven committee members. Member Will Wright concurred k By10:30 � � � � : p.m. the committee it could be embarrassing ifa visitor O�`. 048434t1' ft 4 'had crawled to the top of page 3, to the community saw such a 0 i F aF P covering mistakes in the text up to flawed document in the library. 100144 Y `� ° Wit page 40 of the 170-page corn- s�' �' ¢ plus "We have to find a way to get it r r f . F y 4i r a�ry prehensive plan draft. , edited. There are softwear prog- ` r '`�Y4 `£ tte'a 5 Mistakes in the draft ranged rams,"Wright said. oV from a consistent misspelling of Brandau said the DOCD could Carmel as Camel to omissions and edit the text and make corrections using old text and figures from the if it could obtain the disk from Running for Wisitard 19$5 Comprehensive Plan which HNTB. are no longer accurate. See PLAN page AS .Fire recruits from Carmel-Clay and Wz (Marlon County) finish a run in Civic Squi Price seeks Loi WFBQRon Hellems tops tape INDIANAPOLIS(AP)—Defeated his Mixbu IndnatecaeJohn R t O n i h t'", Price has requested an audio tape Last of thre SIF transcription of a local radio BY BETTY C IILDER,S By GREGG 1 Sr •` broadcast that compared him on Tapirs stair writer ate,¢'wrt II•- .. __.. s�t_� -....-� ai..��.�_a ........1- ...L,111...4 ..te.r� ....�..,.....,..r ,.....-,i- . �W11.C'I}�.a PAGE F2. , � E I iToRIALs SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1990 • u "Let the people know the facts and the country will be saved"-Abraham Lincoln ,_ The Carmel freeway , , . The proposed upgrade of the three-mile Carmel freeway is a dream that had better be made real before the chronic traffic clog on U.S. 31 in southern Hamilton County becomes a gridlock nightmare. That and traffic spillage onto residential streets, requiring widening that would mean con- dermpation of homes — is the alternative. Commercial building construction along the stretch of U.S. 31 north of I-465 during the 1980s totaled` 2.5 million square feet — half the office space`built Downtown during the same decade. Where there were cornfields, pastures and woods now are new office midrises, hotels, shops, condos and other outcrop- pirigs-of urbanization. �reeway plan UlS'. '31 is the most could unclog heavily traveled roadway Cannel area in Hamilton County and ons .of the most traffic- clogged in the state. Every weekday 43,000 vehicles pass the 103rd Street intersection. Development during the coming decade is ex- pected to swell the volume to 64,000 vehicles a day- or so ,'says a study — part of an update of Carmel's comprehensive zoning plan — by the Indianapolis office of HNTB Architects Engineers Planners. John W. Myers, transportation engineer for HTNB, thinks the freeway could be built as early as 1997:"The'cost would be $30 million to $50 million, counting the widening of parts of five area roads. Traffic flow will be helped by the current widen- ing of part of U.S. 31 from four to six lanes and the 1991-scheduled work on the I-465 interchange. Seine commercial developers fear a freeway woukl cut off connecting roads to their office parks. Surely the planners can make reasonable accom- modations to avoid serious negative impact. Myers says the Carmel plan "may be a predictor for, what may happen east, west and south of Indianapolis." CCet'tainly if development expands at its present rate,* faster, it will be. ,At present the Interstates crossing the city link Downtown with the east, west, south and north- west urban and suburban areas. Freeway links to the Northside and Northeast- side are missing. Carmel area traffic uses principal- ly Meridian Street. Castleton area traffic uses Alli- so4ville Road, Ind. 37, Keystone Avenue and Fall Crlek-Parkway. ,Northside and Northeastside freeways are need- edg and,the need will grow more acute with urban expansion. Proposed freeway routes are sure to arquse as much hot controversy and opposition in the future as they have in the past. Property values in the'areas they would cross are extremely high. Owners could tie up plans in legal knots far into the 21st century. Even so, solutions to these prob- lems will have to be found eventually. Planning with foresight is the best way to avoid calamities with traffic volume. Although a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, imaginative study of changing traffic needs might final o l,o1-1-o.. ---..-_