Low-income apartment building approved for Stringtown

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — A proposed low-income apartment complex in Stringtown got approval from the city’s development commission May 20.

Current zoning rules in the westside neighborhood don’t allow for a building as big as Fishers-based developer Annex Group wants to build.

But the Metropolitan Development Commission will let the company move forward with plans for a 242-unit complex on the 3.4-acre site. The building would be 50 feet tall. Current zoning allows a maximum height of 35 feet.

Neighborhood residents opposed to the project say the zoning exceptions go too far because the project wouldn’t match the character of the neighborhood. Some residents are also concerned about the removal of trees.

“Our neighborhood is not a blank slate for someone else’s dreams,” Jessy Baum, part of the Stringtown Now neighborhood organization, told the development commission.

Supporters of the $70 million development, which will be called Union at Astor, say the apartments would help with a  Read Entire Article