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Council denies Old National townhome rezoning after residents and applicants clash over land use
Summary
After public hearings and contested testimony, the City Council denied an application to rezone parcels off Old National Highway for a 107-unit townhome project and a related land-use change, leaving the property in its existing commercial land-use designation.
The City Council voted on May 27 to deny a rezoning request that would have changed a 13.4-acre parcel off Old National Highway from commercial to townhouse residential and amended the future land-use map. The proposal, presented by the project team with a church congregation as a co-owner of some land, sought to build a 107-unit townhome community and a shared amenity area; residents and the planning staff opposed the requested land-use change.
Lede: The council denied the rezoning after public hearings that included testimony from neighborhood residents, the applicant’s attorney and church representatives. Residents argued the parcel sits in the middle of a commercial corridor the city wants to reactivate for retail and mixed uses, while the applicant emphasized infrastructure improvements and shared amenities the project would deliver.
Nut graf: The applicant argued the townhomes…
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