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Zoning issues at BRVA January meeting

by Alan Hague

posted: Feb. 09, 2023

There were around 25 in attendance at the January 24, 2023, public meeting of the Broad Ripple Village Association [BRVA] Land Use and Development committee that was held in the basement of Northminster Presbyterian Church, 1660 Kessler Boulevard.

The BRVA Land Use committee

There were two items on the agenda, in bold below.

1) 6280 N. College Avenue (Broad Ripple Apartments/Parking Garage) Kelly Mulder, Vice President of Development for Keystone Group, will be presenting updates for The Broad Ripple Apartments development located at 6280 N. College Avenue. Chris Gricar, COO at Keystone Group who oversees the construction team, will be present to answer construction related questions. Hearing Date: TBD

This presentation was for information only. It concerns the previously approved project to build a building on the old Chase Drive-Thru site at 6230 N. College Avenue [H2 on map] that extends over the top of the existing parking garage at 6280 N. College Avenue.

Current rendering of the proposed building on the south end of the parking garage

image courtesy of BRVA Land Use meeting

The original project included several floors of space for Purdue Polytechnic High School (PPHS) and the remaining space was for apartments. The petitioner explained that around September when the interior drawings were being finalized it became clear that PPHS would soon outgrow this proposed space. Since then, PPHS has found available space to meet its needs at the old Broad Ripple High School building at 1115 Broad Ripple Avenue [H9 on map].

The building interiors were then redesigned for all apartments, with a retail space on the first floor. The exterior on the building received few changes.

2) 834 East 64th Street, Joseph Calderon, representing 834 64th, LLC, will be appearing with a presentation on the petition filed for the following: Variance of Development Standard of the Consolidated Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance to provide for a 2.9-foot east side setback for proposed Lot One and a one-foot west side setback for Lot Two (10 feet required), and to legally establish parking located 3.9 feet from 64th Street (50-foot setback required) and zero feet from Ferguson Street, in front of the front building line (25-foot setback required, not permitted), a 63.7% front building line for Lot Two and a 20% front building line on Lot One along 64th Street (minimum 80% required), a 47.3% front building line along Ferguson Street for Lot Two (60% required), a 32-foot-wide driveway along Ferguson Street (maximum 24 feet permitted), a 16.3-foot setback from Ferguson Street for Lot One (zero to ten foot setback required for the first 25 feet from the corner), a 5.3-foot rear setback for Lot Two (ten feet required), building heights of 21.1 for Lot One and 14.2 for Lot Two (minimum 25-foot height required), and with parking in the right-of-way of Ferguson Street (not permitted). Approval of a Subdivision Plat, to be known as Replat of Lot 20 in Lights Broad Ripple Subdivision, dividing 0.17 acre into two lots. Case #: 2023-CVR/CPL-800, Hearing Date: February 9th, 2023

This proposal is to replat the property at 834 E. 64th Street [D4 on map] to become two lots, one containing the existing Sangrita Saloon and the other containing the existing Mercho Caughey & DeLay offices. No changes are planned for either property. The replating allows for making the existing non-conforming (to zoning code) structures to be legal non-conforming through zoning variances.

The two businesses at 834 E. 64th Street location as seen in 2015

The next public meeting of the committee is scheduled for Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 6pm, at Northminster Presbyterian Church.

alan@broadripplegazette.com

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