Commissioners To Hear Planning Proposals
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Several changes to the Kosciusko County zoning and subdivision control ordinances will go before the Kosciusko County Commissioners at one of their upcoming meetings.
The Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission approved Wednesday to recommend the changes to the commissioners.
Some of the changes include:
• Allowing agricultural tack shops or agricultural-related trucking operations in an agricultural-zoned area as exception uses or permitted uses.
• Allowing residential fences 6-feet high to be extended to the 35-foot setback from the water's edge and then 3 feet to the water's edge. Currently, residential fences can go only out as far as the home.
• Allowing in any district a landowner to erect a sign, which cannot exceed 2 square feet in surface size, which states a name, address, professional activity or other message.
• Allowing 32 feet of signage in connection with any church, temple, school or similar public building.
• Prohibiting signs within any agricultural, environmental, public use, residential or agriculture II districts except as specified in other sections of the ordinances.
• Applying conditions on non-conforming signs.
• For improvement location permits, treating agricultural accessory structures the same as residential accessory structures or residential additions and putting a cap of $2,500 on after-the-fact fines for multifamily residences and all other structures more than 5,000 square feet in size.
• Making changes to the ordinances regarding the Kosciusko County technical committee.
• Requiring Ag II subdivisions to place a restrictive farm covenance on the face of the recorded plat that prohibits any property owner within the plat to remonstrate or complain about normal farm activity.
Residential subdivisions directly abutting or adjacent to an agricultural district also will be required to place the covenance on the face of the recorded plat.
More discussion on sign ordinances will be discussed at a future plan commission meeting, as there was concern from realtors regarding the ordinances.
Copies of the changes in the ordinances are available at the Area Plan Commission office in the Kosciusko County courthouse, Warsaw. [[In-content Ad]]
Several changes to the Kosciusko County zoning and subdivision control ordinances will go before the Kosciusko County Commissioners at one of their upcoming meetings.
The Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission approved Wednesday to recommend the changes to the commissioners.
Some of the changes include:
• Allowing agricultural tack shops or agricultural-related trucking operations in an agricultural-zoned area as exception uses or permitted uses.
• Allowing residential fences 6-feet high to be extended to the 35-foot setback from the water's edge and then 3 feet to the water's edge. Currently, residential fences can go only out as far as the home.
• Allowing in any district a landowner to erect a sign, which cannot exceed 2 square feet in surface size, which states a name, address, professional activity or other message.
• Allowing 32 feet of signage in connection with any church, temple, school or similar public building.
• Prohibiting signs within any agricultural, environmental, public use, residential or agriculture II districts except as specified in other sections of the ordinances.
• Applying conditions on non-conforming signs.
• For improvement location permits, treating agricultural accessory structures the same as residential accessory structures or residential additions and putting a cap of $2,500 on after-the-fact fines for multifamily residences and all other structures more than 5,000 square feet in size.
• Making changes to the ordinances regarding the Kosciusko County technical committee.
• Requiring Ag II subdivisions to place a restrictive farm covenance on the face of the recorded plat that prohibits any property owner within the plat to remonstrate or complain about normal farm activity.
Residential subdivisions directly abutting or adjacent to an agricultural district also will be required to place the covenance on the face of the recorded plat.
More discussion on sign ordinances will be discussed at a future plan commission meeting, as there was concern from realtors regarding the ordinances.
Copies of the changes in the ordinances are available at the Area Plan Commission office in the Kosciusko County courthouse, Warsaw. [[In-content Ad]]