I think you're going to find that there are far more people against this project than for it. It's a horrible idea. And if the mayor wants i, he should start by trying it out in HIS neighborhood, but foisting it on us.
Michael
You have no idea of the catastrophe that obliterated the once family-friendly neighborhood north of the public library. Ten years ago we rented there for a year on 12th Street. while looking for a place in BPN. Let me tell, buddy. When I.U. students dominate
a neighborhood, forget about getting a good night's rest, forget about leaving anything outside anywhere, forget about your car's nice finish. Forget about your outside basketball goal, as it will be thrown down almost nightly till it's broken. Wait til you're
awakened almost every night of the week around 3 a.m. by loud music and drunken students. I really do not want the BPN to go that direction.
I suspect more of us are of both minds on this. Nobody wants their neighborhood to degrade (why, I lie awake at night terrified by the thoughts of roving, drunken students wielding weapons forged of heavy mathematics books – or maybe that’s drunken mathematics books wielding heavy students. There’s drinking involved, let’s leave it at that). At the same time, I’m certainly uncomfortable with excessive governmental restrictions on what I can or cannot do on my own property. Whereas I don’t expect to be allowed to setup my own little meth-house in the back yard, I do expect that if I can build a shed, home office or even a home for wayward Spanish Nuns as long as it meets building and safety codes. I also expect that I can rent out a room in my house if I need to in order to make my mortgage. Currently all of that is allowed (excepts the Nuns – which is a little harsh if you ask me. I mean, take away their rulers and how much of a threat can they be?)
Joking aside, the idea of a granny flat is not so unwanted as all that assuming we do so intelligently. My mother’s home town is moving hard to remove a number of elderly, retirees from their homes so that the city can ‘reclaim’ the city location through a false use of eminent domain to build newer, more expensive housing developments. Moral and legal restraints aside, this would put me in a position to see a very positive end to the idea of a granny flat. The existing restrictions (3 unrelated adults) seem adequate to prevent substantial abuse of the proposal.
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On Jul 6, 2017, at 10:23 PM, Andy Ruff <ru...@bloomington.in.gov> wrote:
City Council member at-largeThe Mayor is trying it in his own neighborhood - the proposal includes Elm Heights (Mayor Hamilton's neighborhood and my neighborhood too, where I have been a homeowner for almost 25 years).
Andy Ruff
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City Council member at-largeThe Mayor is trying it in his own neighborhood - the proposal includes Elm Heights (Mayor Hamilton's neighborhood and my neighborhood too, where I have been a homeowner for almost 25 years).
Andy Ruff
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Michael McCafferty <ar...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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I believe Jim Gronquist expresses questions that I've recently had, so you can refer to his most recent post. I'm sorry that council members and the mayor came in on the BPN discussion rather late. As a kid I lived north of campus, in the 70s. It was a pleasant mix of family-occupied dwellings and student rentals. Before buying a house in the BPN, we had to rent for year, and I chose that same neighbor, as I had fond memories of it. What we found, unfortunately, is that it had changed completely to being a student rental ghetto. It was an utter nightmare from day one until the day we moved out. Vandalism to our car, our basketball goal, our flower beds, unimaginable noise problems at utterly unimaginable hours of the night, and threats from people who didn't like being told they were too loud. That neighborhood, which in the past I naturally saw as a twin to the BPN, is now ruined as far I'm concerned. It's a pit. It's painful going through there realizing what a really nice neighborhood it used to be. Raising population density in the BPN by making "granny flats" available is simply inviting the demographic to change in the BPN. I saw what happened north of campus; I'd hate to that happen here south of campus.
Michael
I don't know, Brian, if anyone has researched your question. But I can tell what I saw. The younger home owners moved on to bigger places; the older ones died off, and the homes were sold by the younger owners and the inheritors to landlords who of course
are attracted to that area because of its proximity to campus. The last woman I knew who lived in that neighborhood died a couple of years ago. The family sold it to a landlord. I can go down any street up there and show you formerly owner-occupied houses
one after another. What I miss in the case of this last person is her stunning grove of pawpaw trees, the best one I've seen in town, whose fruit she didn't like, so she always gave them to us, over many years. This year the landlord cut them all down. Probably
thought they were weeds. What resulted was a ugly wasteland of an alley, where before there was shade...and fruit. Indeed, I can't think of one case up there--and I know the neighborhood really well--where owner-occupied houses didn't go from gardens to barren
landscape, for obvious reasons.
Best,
Michael