Indian Trail Plan Topic At Workshops In/Around: Indian Trail

Thu., Aug. 17, 1995

Bruce Krasnow Staff writer

Indian Trail residents will have another chance to offer opinions about a land-use plan that will shape growth in their neighborhood for the next decade.

The Indian Trail specific plan is now in the hands of the city Plan Commission, which has scheduled workshop sessions for Wednesday.

Residents who want to offer views on the zoning and comprehensive plan document should attend one of two workshop sessions.

The first will be 3-5 p.m. in the City Council chambers at City Hall. The second workshop will be 7-9 p.m. at Woodridge Elementary School.

The two sessions will allow the Plan Commission to go over final details of the document before formal consideration on Aug. 30.

The City Council will hold its own workshop session on the plan Sept. 7.

The plan already has gone through several drafts, with the latest changes coming after two community workshops held by the Indian Trail Task Force, a panel of residents and developers drafting the plan.

That task force is now finished, and the plan rests with the city.

The latest changes include an overall cap on new dwelling units and stricter limits on where new planned unit developments can go and how they are constructed. The plan also calls for a park improvement district in which residents would tax themselves for the acquisition of park land.

At least one aspect of the plan will affect another neighborhood. The plan calls for improvement of the Barnes Road, Strong Road and Five Mile Road corridor into a minor arterial.

That $5.2 million project would push more traffic over the bluff onto Five Mile Prairie.

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