By James Feichtner
My Sugar Pie may still get a refrigeration unit installed at its village location, a decision that was again discussed at length at the Nov. 17 Zionsville Plan Commission meeting. My Sugar Pie owner Kelly Maucere asked the commission for a second continuance for a development plan approval of the 6-foot-by-8-foot unit.
“I’m hoping to find a solution that won’t require a parking space to be used if possible,” Maucere said. “Also I’d like to find a solution to screening the refrigerator unit appropriately.”
During last month’s plan meeting Maucere asked for the first continuance, still hoping to have the unit installed before the holidays.
This second continuance gives Maucere six more months to plan. Committee members unanimously approved the continuance until the May 2015 meeting.
“There are other considerations inside the building as far as workflow goes with my employees, so there’s planning that needs to be done for that since currently our refrigeration unit is on the west side and we would need to move that to the east side,” Maucere said. “I also would like to have time to communicate these ideas with the neighbors who are adjoining my property.”
Neighbors, including Drew Kogan (of Kogan Antiques & Lighting) and Karen Glass (of Serenity Tea Room), have been outspoken against any refrigeration units being placed on the My Sugar Pie lot.
Kogan said this unit would hurt his business and the sound would disrupt his home, which is part of his lighting business building. Glass told the commission last month that she, too, considered placing a large refrigeration unit outside of her business but decided against it fearing that it would ruin the ambiance of the village.
