City Council OKs Corrective Rezoning
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
The old adage, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again," was in full effect for the Warsaw City Council Monday.
City Planner Jeff Noffsinger said the council's denial of Jim Eisenbraun's rezoning petition for his business at 560-600 N. Bay Drive at their October meeting was technically a no-action, because the council needs at least four votes to approve or deny a rezoning. The council denied Eisenbraun's petition with a 3-2 vote in October.
"The motion last month that was approved has since been found to need four votes to take any action, and since there was only three, the motion to deny the rezoning petition couldn't have been approved," Noffsinger said. "Because of that, the petition is back before you tonight. My recommendation is that the property be returned to commercial zoning."
Noffsinger said his recommendation was based on the fact that there was no record of the parcel being legally rezoned from its original commercial zoning to residential. Granting Eisenbraun's petition would be correcting a mistake made 18 years ago.
The council accepted Noffsinger's recommendation, approving the rezoning petition 5-1, with councilwoman Tammy Rockey voting no. [[In-content Ad]]
The old adage, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again," was in full effect for the Warsaw City Council Monday.
City Planner Jeff Noffsinger said the council's denial of Jim Eisenbraun's rezoning petition for his business at 560-600 N. Bay Drive at their October meeting was technically a no-action, because the council needs at least four votes to approve or deny a rezoning. The council denied Eisenbraun's petition with a 3-2 vote in October.
"The motion last month that was approved has since been found to need four votes to take any action, and since there was only three, the motion to deny the rezoning petition couldn't have been approved," Noffsinger said. "Because of that, the petition is back before you tonight. My recommendation is that the property be returned to commercial zoning."
Noffsinger said his recommendation was based on the fact that there was no record of the parcel being legally rezoned from its original commercial zoning to residential. Granting Eisenbraun's petition would be correcting a mistake made 18 years ago.
The council accepted Noffsinger's recommendation, approving the rezoning petition 5-1, with councilwoman Tammy Rockey voting no. [[In-content Ad]]