
Website
www.indy.gov/DMD
Primary Contact
Brad Beaubien
Administrator for Long-Range Planning
Contact via email
Mission statement
The City of Indianapolis’ Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD) exists to promote community and economic development and perform city planning, zoning, and redevelopment activities for Marion County.
Actions
Actions are activities derived from the Plan 2020 planning process that a partner has committed to implement.
Department of Metropolitan Development is working on the following actions:
Strategy
Implement a planning and public policy strategy to identify locations and guide the development of new neighborhood nodes and villages.
Action
Conduct a development suitability analysis to determine where village potential exists, including market demand, parcel size and availability, viability of adjacent neighborhoods, and non-residential land uses
Start Date:
January 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2018
Progress
25%
Strategy
Implement a planning and public policy strategy to identify locations and guide the development of new neighborhood nodes and villages.
Action
Establish “complete community” criteria to meet the daily living needs of residents, including: walkability, mixed-use, and a range of housing types (affordability)
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2018
Progress
0%
Strategy
Implement a planning and public policy strategy to identify locations and guide the development of new neighborhood nodes and villages.
Action
Determine and adopt adequate public facilities and minimum public service and design standards for villages and neighborhood nodes -such as pedestrian infrastructure, public lighting, streetscape amenities, public space, transit connections, and crime prevention through environmental design
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2018
Progress
0%
Strategy
Implement a planning and public policy strategy to identify locations and guide the development of new neighborhood nodes and villages.
Action
Propose Economic Investment Districts (EID) for each existing and proposed village and node to help finance infrastructure improvements, operation and maintenance
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
20%
Strategy
Implement a housing investment strategy focused on entrepreneurship, such as artists, makers, and other early-career entrepreneurs.
Action
Identify areas best suited to acquire properties in a concentrated area
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2019
Progress
25%
Strategy
Implement a housing investment strategy focused on entrepreneurship, such as artists, makers, and other early-career entrepreneurs.
Action
Explore a homesteading program, coupled with loan and incentive programs, in “branded” creative neighborhoods accessible to villages
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Strategy
Implement a housing investment strategy focused on entrepreneurship, such as artists, makers, and other early-career entrepreneurs.
Action
Utilize anchor institutions or community partners to provide programming, support space, or support services that complement each creative neighborhood
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
25%
Strategy
Provide private market confidence through leading and sustained public investment and commitment.
Action
Expand Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) eligibility for dense mixed-use housing, through designation of Community-Based Development Organizations (CBDO) and through use of Section 108 funds
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Strategy
Provide private market confidence through leading and sustained public investment and commitment.
Action
Target and layer investment of federal development funds, including CDBG, HOME, Low-income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), and New Market Tax Credits
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Strategy
Provide private market confidence through leading and sustained public investment and commitment.
Action
Promote establishment of Economic Improvement Districts (EID) to improve village core governance and provide support for management and enhancement of public spaces and value-enhancing public services
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Provide private market confidence through leading and sustained public investment and commitment.
Action
Identify targeted neighborhoods for the new county-wide housing strategy
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Provide private market confidence through leading and sustained public investment and commitment.
Action
Implement a strategy where all existing schools have sidewalks or biking pathways leading to and from the school to the surrounding neighborhood
Start Date:
May 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
25%
Strategy
Provide private market confidence through leading and sustained public investment and commitment.
Action
Develop and publish a set of school siting criteria
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2018
Progress
100%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Align transportation planning with industrial renewal efforts by accounting for freight (truck and rail) by looking at capacity constraints and modal disconnects (e.g. more frequent and longer freight trains producing more at-grade crossing delays)
Start Date:
January 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Develop implementation process that requires coordination between DMD, DPW, DCE, IndyGo, Blue Indy, Indy Parks and other internal city agencies and municipal corporations to assure best use analysis and leveraging of investments
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Incorporate current, pending and future regional pedestrian plan, freight plan, bike connectivity plan, greenways plan, and IndyConnect into thoroughfare plan and other city technical plans as identified in Plan 2020
Start Date:
December 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Consider utilities coordination and multimodal infrastructure improvement as part of construction timeline
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2019
Progress
0%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Coordinate all modes of transportation to create interconnected system, including BlueIndy, Bike Share, etc
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Integrate Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) into land use planning system
Start Date:
September 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Establish protocol for cross-departmental coordination.
Action
Plan and rezone MU-3 and MU-4 mixed-use zoning districts
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Strategy
Develop a resiliency master plan to guide governing agencies and services.
Action
Complete and implement a county-wide Resiliency Master Plan
Start Date:
January 1, 2017
Completion Date:
December 31, 2018
Progress
100%
Strategy
Incentivize and reinforce sustainability/livability in the private sector.
Action
Identify ways to make “invisible” things “visible” through real time reporting on local health indicators (IndyVitals)
Start Date:
July 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Strategy
Create greater local capacity to lead economic growth and development in urban neighborhoods in order to put into productive use underutilized space including brownfields.
Action
Identify/create lead entity responsible for assembling and remediating (as necessary) vacant industrial space
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Spur business growth through implementing place based investment in innovation zones and entrepreneurship districts.
Action
Identify place-based innovation and entrepreneurship districts
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2019
Progress
0%
Strategy
Create greater local capacity to lead economic growth and development in urban neighborhoods in order to put into productive use underutilized space including brownfields.
Action
Identify and pursue federal funds that will bolster manufacturing re-use and innovation in Indianapolis
Start Date:
September 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2017
Progress
100%
Strategy
Spur business growth through implementing place based investment in innovation zones and entrepreneurship districts.
Action
Use planning and zoning tools to support and enable innovation zones and entrepreneurship district
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2019
Progress
0%
Strategy
Take inventory of and maintain a list of third spaces within neighborhoods.
Action
Conduct a public places gap analysis and create an action plan
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2019
Progress
10%
Strategy
Take inventory of and maintain a list of third spaces within neighborhoods.
Action
Develop criteria for siting a new 3rd place and ways to designate an existing place as a 3rd place
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2019
Progress
0%
Strategy
Engage the private sector to become committed to a culture of exceptional quality and design.
Action
Building off of the Regional Center Design Guidelines, develop a process by which districts may opt-in to minimum design standards for all residential and commercial development
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2019
Progress
0%
Strategy
Engage the private sector to become committed to a culture of exceptional quality and design.
Action
Establish an urban design action team to review everything that is awarded DMD funding (HOME, CDBG and TIF) for its design
Start Date:
August 1, 2015
Completion Date:
December 31, 2016
Progress
100%