There were only three items on the agenda of the June meeting of the Broad Ripple Village Association Land Use and Development Committee. The meeting is scheduled for the 4th Tuesday of each month at 6pm at Broad Ripple United Methodist Church, located at 6185 Guilford Avenue [J5 on map].

The first item was for petition #2012-DV2-021 for property located at 714 Broad Ripple Avenue. M & I Bank is requesting a variance to allow for the addition of four parking spaces in the northwest corner of the parking lot. This addition could interfere with the drive-thru traffic. M & I Bank branch manager Justin McKeand explained that during a recent observation period of one week, there were never more than two cars "stacked" in the drive-thru lanes. The ordinance requires space for five stacking spaces. The BRVA land use board voted to support this petition.

The next item on the agenda was for petition #2012-UV1-011 for property located at 6357 Guilford Avenue. The request of this petition is to grant a special exception to allow for a tattoo parlor within 255 feet of a D-P district. The D-P district classification allows for planned housing developments along with commercial uses. The Department of Metropolitan Development staff reports states, "In this case, the protected district is a D-P dwelling district approximately 255 feet to the southeast. That D-P District was rezoned in 1984 to provide for a multi-family development. The portion of the D-P District, which contains the parking lots and multi-family building, was rezoned to C-1 in 1990. Although much of the D-P District remains, it mostly lies over the White River and the Broad Ripple Canal and contains no dwellings."

This building is one of the oldest original homes in the area and was most recently the Running With Scissors Salon. The proposed tattoo parlor, Untitled Ink, would employ 3-4 artists. The hours would be 11am to 9pm. The only exterior changes to the building would be to repaint and to fix the awnings.

The BRVA land use board voted to support the petition.

The final item on the agenda was for information only. Mary Solada represented the Broad Ripple Station retail center (across the street from McDonald's) to let the board know that United Package Liquors is relocating from the corner of Broad Ripple Avenue and Winthrop Avenue [H6 on map] to the space formerly occupied by Rag-A-Rama [I7 on map] in the retail center.

The next meeting of the committee is scheduled for July 24, 2012, at 6pm at Broad Ripple United Methodist Church.