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Carmel committee reviews broad UDO amendments to development-plan and ADLS rules
Summary
The Land Use and Special Studies Committee examined extensive red-line changes to Unified Development Ordinance Section 903 to consolidate development-plan requirements, clarify administrative design/landscape (ADLS) review, and add environmental, traffic and construction-phase provisions.
CARMEL, Ind. — The Land Use and Special Studies Committee on Feb. 19 reviewed proposed amendments to Section 903 of the city’s Unified Development Ordinance to consolidate development-plan requirements and clarify what belongs in administrative design and landscape (ADLS) review.
Planning Director Mike Albaugh, who presented the draft redlines to the committee, said the changes are “a fairly comprehensive amendment” and noted “there’s quite a bit of red” in the draft. Albaugh said the rewrite would incorporate development-plan requirements for B-1 and B-2 districts that previously required only ADLS review, reduce procedural confusion and add material that should have been in the ordinance already.
The changes are aimed at making a single, clearer checklist for Plan Commission reviewers and applicants. Key additions flagged in Albaugh’s overview include environmental-impact considerations (stormwater management, tree preservation, air and noise pollution and the committee’s…
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