July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Request headed to BZA (7/2/04)
Plans for Lions Club building moving forward
The Portland Planning Commission voted unanimously Thursday to send a variance in use request to the Portland Board of Zoning Appeals for approval.
The commission recommended the Portland BZA approve the request by the Indiana Lions Foundation at its July 13 meeting.
The group would like to build a Lions Club community center on a lot at 310 East 100 North.
Portland Lions Club member John Elwood said he thinks the structure will be 50 by 100 feet. He said the construction start and finish dates have not yet been set.
The lot is currently zoned as industrial and the building would be commercial. The request is not for a rezoning, but simply to allow a commercial building to be built on an industrial lot.
The BZA will make the final decision on the request. It will not need to be considered by the Portland City Council, said Jay/Portland Building and Planning administrator Bill Milligan.
Also Thursday, Milligan told the commission that he has received more complaints from neighbors of Legacy Home Development Inc.
In the original plans for the 1805 North U.S. 27 business, the company said it would build a buffer between the south side of the property and adjoining homes. The buffer was supposed to have a fence and four-foot trees. The fence was never built, and the trees are dying, the neighbors stated. Milligan declined today to release the names of those who voiced the complaints.
No one from the company attended the meeting Thursday. No company officials were available for comment today.
He said the lot was rezoned in 1997. He has spoken with the company owners several times over the last month or so, but nothing has resulted of it. Milligan wants the company to live up to the promises it made when the rezoning was done, by putting up a fence and maintaining the trees.
He asked the commission for permission to pursue the issue. Milligan said the next step will be for city attorney Bill Hinkle to contact the company officials.
“They certainly aren’t living up to what was proposed,” said Portland Planning Commission president Vicki Tague.
She and other commission members agreed Milligan should look into the problem.[[In-content Ad]]
The commission recommended the Portland BZA approve the request by the Indiana Lions Foundation at its July 13 meeting.
The group would like to build a Lions Club community center on a lot at 310 East 100 North.
Portland Lions Club member John Elwood said he thinks the structure will be 50 by 100 feet. He said the construction start and finish dates have not yet been set.
The lot is currently zoned as industrial and the building would be commercial. The request is not for a rezoning, but simply to allow a commercial building to be built on an industrial lot.
The BZA will make the final decision on the request. It will not need to be considered by the Portland City Council, said Jay/Portland Building and Planning administrator Bill Milligan.
Also Thursday, Milligan told the commission that he has received more complaints from neighbors of Legacy Home Development Inc.
In the original plans for the 1805 North U.S. 27 business, the company said it would build a buffer between the south side of the property and adjoining homes. The buffer was supposed to have a fence and four-foot trees. The fence was never built, and the trees are dying, the neighbors stated. Milligan declined today to release the names of those who voiced the complaints.
No one from the company attended the meeting Thursday. No company officials were available for comment today.
He said the lot was rezoned in 1997. He has spoken with the company owners several times over the last month or so, but nothing has resulted of it. Milligan wants the company to live up to the promises it made when the rezoning was done, by putting up a fence and maintaining the trees.
He asked the commission for permission to pursue the issue. Milligan said the next step will be for city attorney Bill Hinkle to contact the company officials.
“They certainly aren’t living up to what was proposed,” said Portland Planning Commission president Vicki Tague.
She and other commission members agreed Milligan should look into the problem.[[In-content Ad]]
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