A public hearing is set for June 1 for a proposed Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins to be located in the former Bon Jour Café building at 2402 N Meridian St. Such a retail use is permitted, however, the drive thru they are requesting is prohibited by the Regional Center Zoning Ordinance which was established to transition Meridian Street, and Downtown, away from automobile-oriented uses. As such, the petitioner is requesting a variance from that ordinance to build a drive through (not permitted) and a variance of development standards to provide for four stacking spaces before and one stacking space after the drive-through (six stacking spaces required before and two stacking spaces required after).

The City of Indianapolis provides neighborhood organizations, as well as individual citizens, with opportunity to provide input regarding changes to and variances from land use decisions in their neighborhood. In Fall Creek Place, we do this through the Progress Team, which has a coordinator and whose membership is made up on a case by case basis of any neighbor who has an opinion on the case. The coordinator gathers input and forwards it to the HOA Board of Directors with a recommendation on a neighborhood position. The neighborhood can choose to support or oppose the case, or take no position.

The Fall Creek Place Progress Team solicits your input regarding any position, or no position, the neighborhood should take regarding this petition. If you have thoughts please share them by emailing progress@fallcreekplace.com or by sharing them publicly in the discussion forums on the neighborhood website at http://www.fallcreekplace.com.