Former Carmel mayor presents master plan for Prospect’s Head property
Jim Brainard, a consultant and former mayor of Carmel, told Prospect’s Architectural Review Committee that a 20–30 acre master plan for the Head property favors a 3–5‑story, walkable downtown with hidden parking financed by tax‑increment financing; residents and Riverfields urged strong floodplain and habitat protections and more landscape‑architecture input. The committee will work on zoning and public hearings; the council took no action today.
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Jim Brainard, a consultant and former mayor of Carmel, presented a completed master plan for Prospect’s 20–30 acre Head property and urged a walkable, mixed‑use downtown built at a ‘gentle density’ of about three to five stories with hidden or underground parking paid for through tax‑increment financing (TIF).
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