When IKEA announced plans to build its Central Indiana store in Fishers, I asked Mayor Scott Fadness at that event how he envisions the area around IKEA developing, since IKEA locations in other cities have spurred a great deal of development in the area.

“We want to be very thoughtful about that,” the mayor said at the time (November 10th, 2015).  The mayor went on to say he wanted a “conscious, purposeful development that we can be proud of in the long-term.”

The mayor has been following through on that pledge for 116th near I-69, as well as area of 106th Street near the new interstate interchange currently under construction.

On Monday night (August 15th), the Fishers City Council voted to extend an ordinance requiring city council approval for any development of areas in the city on 106th & 116th Streets near I-69.  The city is now enduring what it calls “development pressure” in those areas because the current zoning laws are not consistent with the mayor’s vision of that thoughtful, conscious and purposeful development in those areas.

The city has had in place for 120 days a requirement that no clearing or other disturbance of land will occur and no building, structure, variance or use will be established without City Council approval for properties located within the designated areas.  That 120 days is nearly expired, so the council has extended the ordinance for another 90 days to allow city staff to develop the new zoning standards, consistent with the city’s recently approved Comprehensive Plan, also called Fishers 2040.

The map showing the impacted area along 106th Street and I-69 can be found at this link.

The same map for 116th Street can be found at this link.