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Public comments focus on New Chauncey buffer and historic-property errors as APC opens West Lafayette downtown plan amendment
Summary
The APC opened public comment on a second amendment to the West Lafayette downtown plan. Residents from the New Chauncey neighborhood urged retaining a 2–4 story buffer along Fowler, Wiggins and North streets and flagged a city database error that labeled 250 Sheet Street historic.
The Area Plan Commission opened public comment on a proposed second amendment to the West Lafayette downtown plan, with commenters concentrating on proposed height increases at the north edge of downtown and on an apparent mislabeling of one building as historic.
City staff introduced the amendment as an expansion of the downtown study area and described it as the opening of a public-review process. The amendment would add a southwest “expansion area” and update the street grid and some land‑use categories; staff emphasized that the document is an opening draft, not a final plan.
Multiple speakers from the New Chauncey neighborhood urged the commission to preserve a low-rise…
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