Hunt Club and Traders Point Area News

On Tuesday evening, the Zionsville Board of Zoning Appeals voted to deny a variance for a Walmart superstore of 156,621 square feet. Zionsville earlier had enacted a zoning restriction on the size of “integrated centers” to 125,000 square feet with any single use within an integrate center limited to 60,000 square feet.

More information can be found on the Zionsville Times Sentinel website.

Walmart’s petition to the Town of Zionsville for a variance to the “big box” zoning limitation on the square footage of businesses in Zionsville will be heard Tuesday night, February 12th, at 6:30pm by the Zionsville Board of Zoning Appeals. Walmart’s proposed building is 156,521 square feet which exceeds the “big box” limitation of 125,000 square feet by 31,521 square feet and the 60,000 square feet “single use” limitation by 96,521 square feet. Please plan to attend this meeting to show your opposition to Walmart in Zionsville.

If you haven’t already, please sign one of the many petitions against Walmart. There are online petitions (here and here) as well as a paper petition at Akard’s True Value (in the Boone Village shopping center west of downtown Zionsville). The more people that indicate their opposition to this, the more likely we are to prevail!

For those who oppose the Walmart that is proposed to be built near 106th Street and Michigan Road, there is an online petition at fightbigbox.org. The petition website also contains quite a bit of additional information concerning the proposed Walmart, Zionsville zoning and TIF (“tax increment financing”) districts. Please sign the online petition if you want your voice heard on this issue.

This coming Monday, November 12th, at 7:30pm the Zionsville Village Residents’ Association (VRA) will host a discussion at the Sullivan Munce Cultural Center
with the attorneys and executives, and for the first time, the project architect from Walmart to learn more about their proposal to build a Walmart supercenter in Zionsville.

This meeting comes after a very productive meeting at the October VRA meeting with this same group from Walmart and they offered to meet with Zionsville residents again. The VRA thought this was a valuable offer and believes that these discussions will help make the development the best that it can be.

Members of the Town Council, the Plan Commission, and the RDC will also be invited so that they can hear the concerns of the citizens with this development before it goes to any official town meeting.

Some of the topics to be discussed will be:

• concern over traffic
• concern over public safety /cost to community
• concern over WM being in TIF
• discuss architecture
• discuss landscape
• discuss environmental impact

If you would like to submit your own question for the group, you can email them to walmartqs@zvra.com and check www.zvra.com/walmart for more information and some previous Q&A.

This is coming up soon, please make some time to attend this important meeting.
We look forward to seeing you there.