Hey, Hold It Down Over There!
In the evolving saga of the epic neighborhood riff, Carmel City Court Judge Brian Poindexter ruled the Carmel noise ordinance unconstitutional as applied to a lawsuit filed against two Lucas estate workers. (NOTE: The lawsuit filed against the estate regarding violating the zoning ordinance was not affected by this recent Carmel prosecutor ruling.) If you’ve not been keeping up, neighbors to the 116
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estate complained in 2017 of excessive noise and traffic from a newly expanded event center on the Lucas (formerly Hilbert) estate. Since then, the city requested a zoning variance be filed to allow parties (many of which are charitable in nature), which Lucas begrudgingly did only to be denied. That resulted in the fore-mentioned lawsuit as well as
an injunction request with Hamilton Superior Court to prevent more events at the estate. Both sides have filed counterclaims and await a ruling. Meanwhile, party like it’s 1999 at the Irsay Pavilion.