N. Detroit Property Subdivided For Caliber Collision Center
December 14, 2021 at 2:27 a.m.
By David [email protected]
City Planner Justin Taylor told the Commission that the “preliminary and final plat for the Detroit St. Complex Subdivision has been submitted in a timely fashion and reviewed for its conformity to the subdivision control ordinance. The proposed plat meets the development standards for a subdivision within an Industrial-2 zoning district. The plat is a simple subdivision of one lot – that is approximately 20 acres – to create two lots. The newly created lot will be 1.45 acres and will have an access easement in its northwest corner. The new parcel will have access to utilities along the property’s west side and will manage stormwater on site.”
He said since the proposed subdivision does not include the addition of public infrastructure, “I recommend that the Plan Commission grant preliminary and final approval for the plat as presented.”
Responding to questions from Commission Vice President Rick Keeven, Taylor said “subdivision” wasn’t implying residential in this case, but just the subdividing of the big lot into two.
Kaleb Sondgerath, with Kimley Horn, the civil engineer for the project, explained, “This subdivision will be used for – we’re actually going through the planning process right now – it’s a Caliber Collision Center. They do just auto body repair. It’ll be located on that southwest corner.”
Keeven asked if the other buildings would remain as is and the auto repair business would just be added.
“Yeah,” Sondgerath said, “the current property owner has a warehouse, or facility, and then he’s got some vacant land to the south and then we’re just taking a corner of that vacant land and purchasing it and creating a Caliber Collision Center. Just west of the airport.”
Councilwoman and Commission member Diane Quance asked if the access would be right onto Ind. 15 (Detroit Street) or if there would be a frontage road. Sondgerath said there’s an entrance onto Detroit Street that will have a left turn.
“We’re working with INDOT (Indiana Department of Transportation) currently on that. And then, it’ll just have access to our parcel and then there is a stub – that’s what the access easement is for, is there’s a potential second subdivision that will take the lot just north of us,” Sondgerath said, but he wasn’t sure what the use for it was as that was the seller’s.
The potential user to the north will share the drive with the caliber collision center, he said.
Taylor said any access to Ind. 15 will have to get approval from INDOT since it’s a state road. “That will be addressed in the technical review stage of this, to make sure that access is locked in before they get their building permits,” he said.
City engineer and Commission member James Emans said it was just a smaller tract being carved out of a larger tract, they have access to a roadway, the utilities are there so he didn’t have a problem with it.
With no remonstrators against the petition, the Plan Commission unanimously approved the preliminary and final plats.
City Planner Justin Taylor told the Commission that the “preliminary and final plat for the Detroit St. Complex Subdivision has been submitted in a timely fashion and reviewed for its conformity to the subdivision control ordinance. The proposed plat meets the development standards for a subdivision within an Industrial-2 zoning district. The plat is a simple subdivision of one lot – that is approximately 20 acres – to create two lots. The newly created lot will be 1.45 acres and will have an access easement in its northwest corner. The new parcel will have access to utilities along the property’s west side and will manage stormwater on site.”
He said since the proposed subdivision does not include the addition of public infrastructure, “I recommend that the Plan Commission grant preliminary and final approval for the plat as presented.”
Responding to questions from Commission Vice President Rick Keeven, Taylor said “subdivision” wasn’t implying residential in this case, but just the subdividing of the big lot into two.
Kaleb Sondgerath, with Kimley Horn, the civil engineer for the project, explained, “This subdivision will be used for – we’re actually going through the planning process right now – it’s a Caliber Collision Center. They do just auto body repair. It’ll be located on that southwest corner.”
Keeven asked if the other buildings would remain as is and the auto repair business would just be added.
“Yeah,” Sondgerath said, “the current property owner has a warehouse, or facility, and then he’s got some vacant land to the south and then we’re just taking a corner of that vacant land and purchasing it and creating a Caliber Collision Center. Just west of the airport.”
Councilwoman and Commission member Diane Quance asked if the access would be right onto Ind. 15 (Detroit Street) or if there would be a frontage road. Sondgerath said there’s an entrance onto Detroit Street that will have a left turn.
“We’re working with INDOT (Indiana Department of Transportation) currently on that. And then, it’ll just have access to our parcel and then there is a stub – that’s what the access easement is for, is there’s a potential second subdivision that will take the lot just north of us,” Sondgerath said, but he wasn’t sure what the use for it was as that was the seller’s.
The potential user to the north will share the drive with the caliber collision center, he said.
Taylor said any access to Ind. 15 will have to get approval from INDOT since it’s a state road. “That will be addressed in the technical review stage of this, to make sure that access is locked in before they get their building permits,” he said.
City engineer and Commission member James Emans said it was just a smaller tract being carved out of a larger tract, they have access to a roadway, the utilities are there so he didn’t have a problem with it.
With no remonstrators against the petition, the Plan Commission unanimously approved the preliminary and final plats.
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