Plan Commission to consider phase two of the Summit Springs Kelley Enrichment cluster muck development atrocity.

Ah, yes -- our beloved Mayor Ceausescu's concrete hilltop maze, with an awesome Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott, and a Taco Hell, and ...

The City of New Albany assisted on the project by completing about $3 million in infrastructure improvements for sidewalks, utilities and a road extension of West Daisy Lane.

DUH -- of course the city assisted.

Do you really think anyone would bear the brunt of the cost to develop in the wrong place if not eased by public subsidies?

Equally obvious is the connection between those public subsidies, the mayor, and a firm like Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz.

Smart growth?

For the Gahan campaign finance effort, perhaps, but at least now we have suburban ornamental white bison to ease the sting of future mudslides.

The fix may well be in; still, opponents who have relevant information to share are welcome to post it at NA Confidential. After all, the News and Tribune is unlikely to bother. After all, the city advertises with the newspaper, and a judicious discretion is the watchword.

Here's next week's Plan Commission docket.

MEETING NOTICE

To: New Albany City Plan Commission

From: Scott Wood, Director

Subject: Regular Meeting, July 17th, 2018

Date: July 12th, 2018

TENTATIVE AGENDA

The regular meeting of the New Albany City Plan Commission will be held on Tuesday, July 17th, 2018 at 7:00 p.m., in the Assembly Room (Room 331) of the City-County Building, New Albany, Indiana, at which time a Public Hearing will be held to consider the following petitions:

Public Hearing Item(s):

Docket P-02-18: David Ruckman, for Summit Springs IN LLC requests a Preliminary Planned Unit Development District (PUDD) to permit mixed use, including restaurant/event center, office/medical, nursing home, single family and high rise tower in the R-1, Suburban Residential, R-2, Urban Residential district and OS (ss), Open Space (steep slope), at 2303-2307 State Street, 220 Woodbine Drive and 2301-2320 Fawcett Hill Road.

Docket C-01-18: David Ruckman, for Summit Springs IN LLC requests a Primary Plat approval for a seventeen (17) lot subdivision in a PUDD, Planned Unit Development District, at 2303-2307 State Street, 220 Woodbine Drive and 2301-2320 Fawcett Hill Road.

Buffalo Dis-Trace: White folks dress up like their bison-killing ancestors as we glance at Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz's big role in Gahan campaign finance.

Previously:

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Hill or valley? mural or statue? Bison or weasel? Evidently Team Gahan needs reinforcements.

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City Hall's Twitter feed is giddy.

@JTLengineering tweeted: JTL has a big role in the Summit Springs development in @NewAlbanyIN. We did the infrastructure design and designed the Daisy Lane extension. Our survey manager, Steve Marshall, joined in the fun to help unveil the buffalo stones celebrating the Buffalo Trace. #JTLengineering

As you've no doubt guessed, Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz also has a big role in Dear Leader's re-election campaign.

This one's from 2017.

These are from 2015 and 2014.

That's a lot of money for period costumes, don't you think? But wait -- the mayor wore a suit, just like always.

Let's hope Mrs. Dant Chesser used the occasion of an "art park" opening to remind attendees never to let their babies grow up to be humanities/arts majors.

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Hill or valley? mural or statue? Bison or weasel? Evidently Team Gahan needs reinforcements.

Reporting from a greasy gin mill somewhere near Birdseye, the Green Mouse is stupefied. 

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Only now does it makes sense -- and you simply can't make up things like this.

At the merchant meeting on Tuesday morning, the city's spokeswoman noted that there'd be a statue dedication on Wednesday at Summit Springs, and while the details eluded her, she'd send the group the info by e-mail.

I expected it to be another monument to Dear Leader, and wasn't contacted, anyway, which isn't unusual because Develop New Albany blacklists NA Confidential.

Now it turns out to have been a Hoosier National Forest event, attributed to a "Chamber of Commerce" New Albany doesn't possess, about the historic migratory route called Buffalo Trace, now drowned in asphalt, down the hill from the atrocious strip mine, at the art park no one knew existed, next to one of the city's busiest and loudest automotive intersections.

Soon it will be hailed as a "bikeable" destination, so expect to see one of Jeff Gahan's frequent campaign donors -- toss a coin -- so why not Allterrain Paving, since it got the bid for the million-plus (or two?) roadway clinging cliffside to the Taco Bell and chain hotels ...

 ... being paid a few hundred thousand to draw deadly sharrow symbols in chalk under the supervision of Pinocchio Rosenbarger, hovering above six lanes of traffic in an air-conditioned helicopter, nursing a daiquiri, making like Marlon Perkins while Jim Fowler distributes the campaign finance treasure.

Like Grandpa Jones used to say: "In NA, truth is always stranger than fact."

He had no idea.