completes his seventh and final term at the end of 2023, he will end more than 25 years of leading Carmel through population growth and transformative development.
His decision opens up the field in the race for mayor in Carmel next year. Already Councilman Kevin Rider announced he is seeking the city’s top job.Here are what five people told IndyStar: “What Jim did in Carmel both by regional and national standards is indeed remarkable,” Goldsmith said. "The fact that you could have new urbanism and succeed, was not clear at the time he started."
“Jim, I think, by aggressively pushing change, defending change and then seeing the change worked, really sent the message we can grow and do things differently,” Helmke said.Only one other city in the world compares to what Brainard has accomplished in Carmel, Cordingley said: Le Plessis-Robinson, a suburb of Paris.
The Hoosier Republicans loved Indiana's, Jim Jones. When I was a kid in Indianapolis, Reverend Jim Jones had a church downtown. I wished I could have recorded some of my Dad's comments about him; they were not lovely and would have gone viral.