The Land Use and Special Studies Committee met on August 6, 2025, from 5:36 p.m. to 6:52 p.m. at the Carmel Public Library. Discussions focused on a proposed Right-of-Way Permit Ordinance and draft regulations for micro mobility devices.
Right-of-Way Permit Ordinance
Micro Mobility Regulations
Okay. Open the land use and special studies committee meeting Wednesday, August 6th, here at the Carmel Public Library at 5 36 p.m. I apologize for the tardiness. Things we'll be discussing today are right-of-way permits and micro mobility. Where are we on right-of-way? I sent the draft of an ordinance last week, I think, on maybe Thursday. Because Brad Psyon spread here. He was included on the email, but I haven't received a feedback from Brad yet. Okay. I don't know. I know he had been very busy with other stuff, including budget sessions. But the first draft is complete. As you requested, it would be good to kind of sink the teeth into the document. I did my best, but uh obviously subject to a lot of changes and further tailoring, etc. So one thing I talked with Brad and he was not familiar with this. Um he questioned, and I'm gonna bring up to you the ability of he was like, Well, the police gonna handle this, and I said no, these are fines, these are administrative. Right, I just want to make sure that's not a police thing. I mean, unless it becomes one, but it is not. And I'm sorry, I didn't uh we need to if we could please go around and say who we are. It's something we've started, and I don't want to Jessica Calm, Clark's office. Okay, gather. Brady Myers, Carmel PD. Jordan Cole, Strong Towns Carmel. Brian Locke, Carmel City Council. Adrian Healing, Department of Community Services, Teresa Ayers, City Council, Shannon Art, City Council. Cindy Estes, Timber Creek, Condominiance. I need to show she city council. That's neither city council. And Sergei Grucher and Steve uh uh City Legal. Thank you. Okay, back to right-of-way permit. So, team. Have we reviewed what Sergey sent out? And I would be honest, the last couple weeks, I have not. Not in great detail, Matt. If you want to table this for the next meeting to give yourself some time to really dive through it and for us to all dive through it, I'm okay with that. Is that a consensus? Yeah, that's fine with me. Because I would like Brad's insights as well. I know he hasn't. We haven't had a chance to talk about very couple issues that I have, but any confirmation from engineering whether it's even feasible to do. Um I specifically refer to um continuous maintenance bonding obligations and securities, and how that is going to work because we're currently we don't require that for something like this. It's usually reserved for much bigger projects. Um and then just the compliance issues that we discussed as well. You know, an example of this, and Miss Estus is here because I had emailed her a photo uh there was a TPI well, there's a company, private contractor, not sure what they're doing work on, but they just pulled off 126th Street at speed and plowed into their landscaping along 126th Street and then proceeded to drive with two wheels through their landscaping, then backed up and parked in their landscaping to raise their bucket. And that's the kind of thing where there needs to be a work plan submitted. Um there's nothing there that could have been an emergency. Um that's something that would need to, if work requires taking down a lane of traffic, then it requires taking down a lane of traffic, and a work plan should need to be developed, and the proper safety measures need to be accommodated, not just park completely blocking the trail and in some in private properties landscaping. Yeah, we didn't know anything about that. Talk to the president of our board.