These developments support a safer, more connected, and more inclusive Indianapolis. Our email templates help residents express strong support and encourage decision-makers to approve them.

• Transit-oriented development: Housing, jobs, and services near frequent transit.
• Trail-oriented development: Buildings that face, connect to, and activate trails rather than turning their backs on them.
• Walkability: Safe sidewalks, short blocks, visible entrances, pedestrian-scale design, and convenient crossings.
• Dignity in design: Accessible, attractive spaces that respect residents, transit riders, pedestrians, and people of all ages and abilities.
• Placemaking: Public spaces, architecture, landscaping, and local businesses that create a distinct sense of place.
• Mixed-use development: Homes, shops, workplaces, and community services located close together.
• Housing choices and affordability: A range of housing types and price points, especially near transit and daily needs.
• Active ground floors: Doors, windows, storefronts, porches, and other features that create activity along the street.
• Safe bicycle access: Secure bicycle parking, protected connections, and convenient trail access.
• Trees and green infrastructure: Shade, stormwater management, landscaping, and protection of mature trees.

These projects are not necessarily lost causes. Our email templates identify specific problems and request practical changes that could earn community support.

• Deficient bicycle parking: Too few spaces, insecure racks, poor placement, or no protection from weather.
• Poor consideration for vulnerable road users: Unsafe conditions for pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, children, older adults, or people with disabilities.
• Excessive vehicle access points: Frequent curb cuts and driveways that interrupt sidewalks and create conflict points.
• Parking-dominated design: Large surface lots, buildings set far back from the street, or more parking than the project reasonably needs.
• Unsafe or missing pedestrian connections: Not providing sidewalks or creating indirect routes, inadequate crossings, or poor trail connections.
• Weak street frontage: Blank walls, garage doors, utility areas, or parking lots facing important streets and public spaces.
• Poor transit integration: Missing shelters, sidewalks, entrances, or safe routes between the development and nearby transit.
• Lack of shade and landscaping: Few trees, excessive pavement, or uncomfortable public spaces.
• Single-use design in walkable areas: Projects that fail to contribute housing, services, or street activity where mixed uses are appropriate.
• Little public benefit: Requests for public incentives without sufficient affordable housing, infrastructure, public space, or other community value.

These proposals are fundamentally incompatible with a safer, more walkable, and transit-supportive Indianapolis. Our email templates ask decision-makers to reject them unless they are substantially redesigned.

• Developments that hurt walkability: New gas stations, drive-throughs, or other low-density or auto-oriented uses in walkable, transit-, or trail-oriented areas.

• Ignoring Adopted Plans: Development that directly conflicts with community, transit, or land-use plans.

• Unsafe Access: Projects that endanger people walking, biking, rolling, or using transit.

• Demolition for Parking: Removing housing or useful buildings for vehicle storage.