Resident Wants City's Salvage Yard Ordinance Clarified
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
John Bauman, Warsaw, wrote a letter to the mayor, city council and city planners regarding the city's salvage yard ordinance.
"I would like to request that the code be clarified, and setbacks, fences and screens be required as they are in every other city besides Warsaw," Bauman stated in his letter.
He said it came to his attention that the ordinance needs to be clarified due to a previous request before the board of zoning appeals.
During the Oct. 25 zoning meeting, the board denied a request for a special exception to allow Lewis Salvage Corp. to be located in an industrial district. The board also denied a request for a setback to allow for a fence on the property.
Bauman said there is an awkward, unintended and dangerous ambiguity in the current Warsaw City Code regarding zoning for junk yards.
"Since Lewis Salvage beat out all his competition in the scrap business in Warsaw, he has been continuously gobbling up the land that surrounds him," Bauman said. "He is making a mad dash for the goal line of putting up a fence at the very outside perimeters of his property, against which he will pile his scrap metal."
City Planner Jeremy Skinner said the city's scrap yard ordinance has a 45-foot setback requirement for structures, but the ordinance doesn't say anything about screening or fencing.
"I honestly believe we need to look at the salvage yard ordinance. There should be setbacks and buffer requirements," Skinner said.
Also during Monday night's meeting, nine citizens attended the beginning of the meeting and asked if the commission was reviewing an annexation of property on the east side of CR 100E.
Skinner said the city advertised to discuss the annexation at the Dec. 6 city council meeting, but it was taken off the city council agenda because people were confusing the proposed CR 100E closure with the annexation.
In the city council story printed in the Nov. 16 edition of the Times-Union, the paper reported Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins corrected David Beall, Warsaw Municipal Airport manager, when he said Warsaw Plan Commission will review a proposal for the city to annex property on the east side of CR 100E.
The paper also reported Wiggins said a meeting date for the city council to review the annexation proposal has not been scheduled, and he said the plan commission will not review the annexation.
"The annexation will not be discussed at this time, but at some point the city will discuss annexing the property, but that date has not been set," Skinner said Monday.
Skinner said the public will be made aware of when the annexation will be discussed.
In other business Monday, the board approved a final plat for Paths of Deerfield at the southwest corner of CRs 75N and 175E.[[In-content Ad]]
John Bauman, Warsaw, wrote a letter to the mayor, city council and city planners regarding the city's salvage yard ordinance.
"I would like to request that the code be clarified, and setbacks, fences and screens be required as they are in every other city besides Warsaw," Bauman stated in his letter.
He said it came to his attention that the ordinance needs to be clarified due to a previous request before the board of zoning appeals.
During the Oct. 25 zoning meeting, the board denied a request for a special exception to allow Lewis Salvage Corp. to be located in an industrial district. The board also denied a request for a setback to allow for a fence on the property.
Bauman said there is an awkward, unintended and dangerous ambiguity in the current Warsaw City Code regarding zoning for junk yards.
"Since Lewis Salvage beat out all his competition in the scrap business in Warsaw, he has been continuously gobbling up the land that surrounds him," Bauman said. "He is making a mad dash for the goal line of putting up a fence at the very outside perimeters of his property, against which he will pile his scrap metal."
City Planner Jeremy Skinner said the city's scrap yard ordinance has a 45-foot setback requirement for structures, but the ordinance doesn't say anything about screening or fencing.
"I honestly believe we need to look at the salvage yard ordinance. There should be setbacks and buffer requirements," Skinner said.
Also during Monday night's meeting, nine citizens attended the beginning of the meeting and asked if the commission was reviewing an annexation of property on the east side of CR 100E.
Skinner said the city advertised to discuss the annexation at the Dec. 6 city council meeting, but it was taken off the city council agenda because people were confusing the proposed CR 100E closure with the annexation.
In the city council story printed in the Nov. 16 edition of the Times-Union, the paper reported Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins corrected David Beall, Warsaw Municipal Airport manager, when he said Warsaw Plan Commission will review a proposal for the city to annex property on the east side of CR 100E.
The paper also reported Wiggins said a meeting date for the city council to review the annexation proposal has not been scheduled, and he said the plan commission will not review the annexation.
"The annexation will not be discussed at this time, but at some point the city will discuss annexing the property, but that date has not been set," Skinner said Monday.
Skinner said the public will be made aware of when the annexation will be discussed.
In other business Monday, the board approved a final plat for Paths of Deerfield at the southwest corner of CRs 75N and 175E.[[In-content Ad]]
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