County Plan Commission Approves Plats, Rezoning
May 7, 2020 at 12:17 a.m.
County Plan Commission Approves Plats, Rezoning
By Teresa [email protected]
There were two hearing sessions: one at 1 p.m. and the second at 1:30 p.m. During the first hearing, the board approved four petitions. All the petitions will be heard by the county commissioners for final approval May 24 and included:
• David Caswell’s petition for preliminary plat approval for two lots in an agricultural II subdivision on a 20-acre tract of land. The property is on the south side of CR 200S, west of CR 600W in Harrison Township.
The rolling ground has been pasture for many years and plans call for two 9.9-acre lots with a single-family dwelling each.
• Round Table Consortium’s petition for a preliminary plat for a residential subdivision on a 0.97-acre tract of ground. The property is on the east side of Huntington Street and the corner of Branch Street in Turkey Creek Township and will be split into two tracts.
• Silver Lake Agri Center’s request to rezone ground from an agricultural residential district to an industrial II district.
Agri Center owner Todd Hoffman said he plans to install solar arrays to power the elevator. A solid privacy fence will be installed on the property on the east side of CR 250W, west of the railroad in Lake Township to screen the solar panels.
Nearby neighbors Dean and Barb Hudson appeared during this hearing saying they had no problem with the rezoning request. However, they didn’t feel the property was well kept and were tired of seeing piles of junk out their front windows. They cited tanker-trailers parked at the property for months, along with unmoving wagons of rotten grain and stacks of telephone poles.
The Hudsons said they’ve asked for the property to be cleaned up and no progress has been made. They asked for a privacy fence along the grainery’s property line.
Hoffman said he didn’t realize he couldn’t have equipment or vehicles parked on his property. He was happy to install a fence if the Hudsons paid for it, which the Hudsons indicated they were unwilling to do.
Area Plan Director Dan Richard reminded the board members the Hudsons were not remonstrating against the rezoning and their opinion of the property’s appearance had nothing to do with the decision before them.
Plan member Charles Haffner had some sympathy for the couple, though, and advised Hoffman a planting of arborvitae along the property line wouldn’t be out of order.
At the 1:30 p.m. hearing, Luke Minear’s petition to rezone 5.32 acres from a commercial district, the former Clayton’s Garden?Center site, to an agricultural district was approved. The property is on the east side of Syracuse Webster Road, 100 feet west of Ind. 13 in Tippecanoe Township.
Attorney Steve Snyder appeared for a vacation request by Griffith’s Wawasee Marina owners who are requesting a vacation of streets in Jarrett’s 1st Addition along Lake Wawasee: Channel Avenue, Pike’s Drive and the east side of Ross Drive. The streets are south of Morrison Island Road and west of Buttermilk Drive.
Snyder said the marina plans to add storage buildings on the property and needs the street space to maintain setbacks.
Five area residents came forward against vacating half of Ross Drive. They have rights to pier space on Buttermilk Bay, west of the marina, and launch their personal watercraft from there. They all felt reducing street by half, leaving 12-1/2 feet, would limit their access to the piers. Their sentiments were reinforced by a letter of protest from the Turkey Creek Township Fire Territory chief, who also noted that reducing the public lane would pose difficulties to emergency response vehicles.
Snyder withdrew the Ross Drive portion of the request and commissioners approved the other vacation requests.
The next plan commission meeting is June 3 at 1 p.m. in the Kosciusko County Courthouse third floor meeting room.
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There were two hearing sessions: one at 1 p.m. and the second at 1:30 p.m. During the first hearing, the board approved four petitions. All the petitions will be heard by the county commissioners for final approval May 24 and included:
• David Caswell’s petition for preliminary plat approval for two lots in an agricultural II subdivision on a 20-acre tract of land. The property is on the south side of CR 200S, west of CR 600W in Harrison Township.
The rolling ground has been pasture for many years and plans call for two 9.9-acre lots with a single-family dwelling each.
• Round Table Consortium’s petition for a preliminary plat for a residential subdivision on a 0.97-acre tract of ground. The property is on the east side of Huntington Street and the corner of Branch Street in Turkey Creek Township and will be split into two tracts.
• Silver Lake Agri Center’s request to rezone ground from an agricultural residential district to an industrial II district.
Agri Center owner Todd Hoffman said he plans to install solar arrays to power the elevator. A solid privacy fence will be installed on the property on the east side of CR 250W, west of the railroad in Lake Township to screen the solar panels.
Nearby neighbors Dean and Barb Hudson appeared during this hearing saying they had no problem with the rezoning request. However, they didn’t feel the property was well kept and were tired of seeing piles of junk out their front windows. They cited tanker-trailers parked at the property for months, along with unmoving wagons of rotten grain and stacks of telephone poles.
The Hudsons said they’ve asked for the property to be cleaned up and no progress has been made. They asked for a privacy fence along the grainery’s property line.
Hoffman said he didn’t realize he couldn’t have equipment or vehicles parked on his property. He was happy to install a fence if the Hudsons paid for it, which the Hudsons indicated they were unwilling to do.
Area Plan Director Dan Richard reminded the board members the Hudsons were not remonstrating against the rezoning and their opinion of the property’s appearance had nothing to do with the decision before them.
Plan member Charles Haffner had some sympathy for the couple, though, and advised Hoffman a planting of arborvitae along the property line wouldn’t be out of order.
At the 1:30 p.m. hearing, Luke Minear’s petition to rezone 5.32 acres from a commercial district, the former Clayton’s Garden?Center site, to an agricultural district was approved. The property is on the east side of Syracuse Webster Road, 100 feet west of Ind. 13 in Tippecanoe Township.
Attorney Steve Snyder appeared for a vacation request by Griffith’s Wawasee Marina owners who are requesting a vacation of streets in Jarrett’s 1st Addition along Lake Wawasee: Channel Avenue, Pike’s Drive and the east side of Ross Drive. The streets are south of Morrison Island Road and west of Buttermilk Drive.
Snyder said the marina plans to add storage buildings on the property and needs the street space to maintain setbacks.
Five area residents came forward against vacating half of Ross Drive. They have rights to pier space on Buttermilk Bay, west of the marina, and launch their personal watercraft from there. They all felt reducing street by half, leaving 12-1/2 feet, would limit their access to the piers. Their sentiments were reinforced by a letter of protest from the Turkey Creek Township Fire Territory chief, who also noted that reducing the public lane would pose difficulties to emergency response vehicles.
Snyder withdrew the Ross Drive portion of the request and commissioners approved the other vacation requests.
The next plan commission meeting is June 3 at 1 p.m. in the Kosciusko County Courthouse third floor meeting room.
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