Neighborhood group elects steering committee
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Landlords and business owners of the New Chauncey Neighborhood held their first informational meeting Thursday night to discuss a neighborhood land use plan.
The West Lafayette City Council passed a resolution in May which authorized the Area Plan Commission and New Chauncey homeowners to develop such a plan for the New Chauncey neighborhood. The meeting was led by Ryan O’Gara, assistant director of the Area Plan Commission of Tippecanoe County.
“This neighborhood planning process is a way to bring all interests together,” said O’Gara. “We want to develop a plan that promotes development that the community thinks is best.”
This first meeting’s main purpose was to elect part of a steering committee that could represent the interests of landlords and business owners in New Chauncey, said Chandler Poole, director of development for West Lafayette.
“This is the first step in trying to put together a steering committee to represent all the various interests in the neighborhood,” Poole said.
A member of the West Lafayette City Council, a member of West Lafayette city staff, two neighborhood residential owner occupiers and a student renter will be selected to fill out the steering committee.
Loren King, owner of King Properties, was selected to represent commercial property owners. No commercial business owners were in attendance to represent their interest group in the committee.
Patti Weida, owner of Weida Properties, and Shane O’Malley, a partner in Highline Construction, were selected to represent landlords in the neighborhood. Weida laid out her vision for the neighborhood.
“I would like to see a mixed-use neighborhood that accommodates landlords, families and students,” Weida said.