NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given, that the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission shall hold a public hearing to discuss the amendment, revision, and addition of the following sections of the Kosciusko County Zoning Ordinance;
Zoning Ordinance:
Section 2.12 I-3 HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT: This zoning district is intended to provide areas for the development of heavy industrial uses, including but not limited to heavy fabricating, manufacturing, processing, extraction, heavy repair and dismantling industries, including open land operations. This use includes ancillary related offices. Within this classification are included the following:
• All uses permitted in an I-2 district.
• Fabricating, manufacturing, processing, data processing, extraction, heavy repair and dismantling industries, including open land operations.
• Ready mix concrete plants or asphalt plants.
• It would be preferable but not mandatory that larger tracts be zoned and used for this classification, I-3. In other words a suggested minimum of 10 acres per tract should be rezoned to I-3, where possible, so as to confine and concentrate I-3 uses to those areas rather than more randomly distributing them and thereby causing a greater impact upon the community and county.
Table A: Heavy Industrial “I-3”
PERMITTED USES
1. Heavy Fabricating
2. Manufacturing
3. Processing
4. Extraction
5. Heavy Repair & Dismantling Industries including open land operations
6. Ancillary Related Offices
7. Ready Mix Concrete Plant or Asphalt Plants
8. Micro Wind System
9. Micro Solar Energy System
10. Small Solar Energy System
11. Medium Solar Energy System
12. Large Solar Energy System
13. Public Improvement
EXCEPTIONAL USES
1. Planned Unit Developments
2. Restaurants
3. Airports
4. Mineral Extraction
5. Salvage Yards
6. Manufacturing & Processing of Explosive Materials
7. Scrape Metal Processing Facility
8. Agriculture
9. Communication Towers *
10. Manufactured Homes Sales & Service
11. WECS Large, Wind Farm, anemometers and related devices and structures
12. Commercial Solar Energy System Farm
13. Child Day Care Services (non occupied home)
14. Data Center/Data Processing
Definitions:
Data Center: A location housing one or more large computer systems and related equipment concerned with building, maintaining, or processing data and providing other data processing services.
Said amendments, revisions, and additions to the Kosciusko County Zoning Ordinance shall, if adopted, apply to those unincorporated areas of Kosciusko County as well as those participating municipalities within the County including the Town of Syracuse, Town of Milford, Town of North Webster, Town of Etna Green, Town of Pierceton, Town of Burket, Town of Claypool, Town of Leesburg, and the Town of Silver Lake. Copies of the proposed amendments can be found on the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission website at www.kosciusko.in.gov or in the Area Plan Commission Offices.
This Hearing will be held in the Commissioners meeting room on the 3rd floor of the Kosciusko County Courthouse at 100 W. Center St., Warsaw, Indiana, on Wednesday the 5th day of February at 1:00 P.M. All interested persons are invited to attend and be heard. Written comments will be considered if they are received in the Office of the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission, Warsaw, Indiana, no later than 12:00 Noon on the day of the hearing. Copies of the proposals are available upon request in the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission Office.
Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission
Matthew M Sandy, Director
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