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Metropolitan Development Commission approves rezoning to allow emergency overflow shelter at North Tibbs site
Summary
The commission voted 8-0 to add emergency shelter and storage uses to the DP zoning for 2424–2606 North Tibbs Avenue, allowing the city to use the Noble of Indiana building as a winter/ severe-weather overflow shelter and a furniture storage/distribution site.
The Metropolitan Development Commission on Oct. 15 approved 2025ZON106, a City of Indianapolis petition to add overflow-shelter and related uses at 2424–2606 North Tibbs Avenue, by an 8-0 roll-call vote.
The rezoning covers about 14.7 acres and adds uses that would allow the existing Noble of Indiana warehouse on the site to operate as a family overflow shelter, a single-men’s overflow shelter, an emergency shelter during severe weather, and a storage/distribution site for furniture used in transitioning people into permanent supportive housing. “We are respectfully asking for the commission’s approval of this request as it is vital to addressing a critical threat to the city's homeless population during the winter seasons and inclement weather events,” Andrew Merkley, director of the Office…
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