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Our Mission

Legalize Housing Choice

Carmel is an amazing place to live and we want our children, teachers, firefighters, and service workers to afford living here. We advocate for small zoning changes to allow missing middle housing without destroying existing neighborhood character.

Safe and Productive Streets

Monon Boulevard shows how streets designed for everyone's safety are valued by businesses, residents, and visitors. We aim to extend this to all of Carmel, benefitting residents with vibrant and safe streets. We support quick and cheap improvements rather than costly, long-term projects.

Reduce Parking Mandates

We question using our limited land for car storage. Parking minimums waste valuable space, drain city resources, reduce green areas, and increase housing and business development costs. We advocate for fewer parking mandates to create more people-centered spaces.

Join Us in September for our Monthly Meeting!

Come and join our monthly meeting! We'll discuss Carmel's City-Council meetings as well as other events around our city, celebrate our wins (big and small), and work together to create a safe, active, and neighborly Carmel that works for everyone who lives here.

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Strong Towns Carmel
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Why good active infrastructure benefits everyone

Everyone who lives in Carmel should support funding and building quality active infrastructure: sidewalks, multi-use paths, raised crosswalks, protected bike lanes, secure bike par...

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Join Us in August for our Monthly Meeting!

Come and join our monthly meeting! We'll discuss Carmel's City-Council meetings as well as other events around our city, celebrate our wins (big and small), and work together to cr...

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Solving Carmel's Climate Goals with Strong Towns Principles

We are focused on making Carmel an even safer and more joyous place to walk, bike, and (hopefully someday soon) ride public transit. Better options for replacing car trips will make Carmel stronger, sustainable, and help achieve our Climate Action Plan goals by lowering our dependency on greenhoue-gas emitting vehicles.

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In Support of Off-Street Paths

Everyone should feel safe walking and riding everywhere Carmel, not just along the Monon. A new proposed off-street path would take our city to the next level.

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Designing Carmel’s next steps with lessons from the Dutch

As Carmel continues to develop and redevelop our urban spaces and infrastructure, we need to be very thoughtful and mindful of the details. This will result in a network that is welcoming and accommodating for all ages and abilities.

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