Exception OK’d for project in Pennville

County officials took another step in the process Thursday to establish the new Pennville mobile home park.

Jay County Board of Zoning Appeals OK’d a special exception use request from Darrick Plummer of Pennville Partners to allow three parcels zoned as single family residential to join the project. The final decision moves next to Jay County Commissioners.

Plummer plans to convert the lot west of South Street, just south of Max Drive, and the lot south of Daisy Lane — it's located next to the existing Freedom Village Mobile Home Park — into more mobile home park space. Jay County Board of Zoning Appeals OK’d Plummer’s request in October to combine two parcels — about 12 acres — and create the mobile home park. One of the new parcels added to the project is located on the west side of county road 300 North, north of Daily Lane, and the other two new parcels are located on the north side of Max Drive.

Plummer plans to put in 50 lots for homes over the course of the next four to five years.

The board originally approved the request at its April meeting. Pati McLaughlin of Jay/Portland Building and Planning McLaughlin explained Thursday the original legal notice didn’t run in The Commercial Review prior to the April meeting, requiring the zoning board to re-approve the request after the notice was published. 

Board members Marla Lutes, Steve Ford and Angela Paxson, absent Kaleb Hemmelgarn and Scott Hilfiker, agreed to grant the special exception.