23 June 2025 Dearborn County Plan Commission Meeting Notes
Present: Dennis Kraus, Jr., Chairman, Russell Beiersdorfer, Mark Lehman, Jake Hoog, Dan Lansing, and Eric Lang
ABSENT: Jeff Hermesch, Joe Vogel, and Jim Thatcher,
Also Present: Nicole Daily, Planning and Zoning Director, and Andy Baudendistel, Attorney.
Baudendisteal read the Title VI statement as legally required.
ACTION ON MINUTES
OLD BUSINESS:
Britton Zone Map Amendment (Carr Road) will be TABLED until August Meeting
NEW BUSINESS:
Maxwell Properties V, Inc is requesting Primary Plat Approval for a Harvest Meadows 15 Lot Subdivision. The property is approximately 28.5 acres of land located along Dog Ridge Rd in Kelso Township Parcel # 15-02-100-011.000-010.
****Arrived late for this item - Nicole Daily’s read and discussed from the sheet passed out at the meeting. When applicant came up - Randy Maxwell- he went to ask Nicole about the sidewalks and it turned out he will need a waiver. Item 11 goes into detail on her sheet of staff comments and review about requirements .
Randy Maxwell- Going to ask for a waiver- to have no sidewalks required. - need to be tabled. He discussed the previous portion of this from the sheet and why he does not want to have sidewalks in this 15 lot subdivision. Board accepted his request to TABLE this until the next meeting,
LHPYC, LLC is requesting Primary Plat approval for Lighthouse Point Landing 16 unit Townhouse PUD Subdivision. The property os approximately 9.97 acres located at 11042 SR 56 in Center Township Parcel # 15-12-09-200-007.003-002.
Daily presented. The was rezoned PUD through this board. Phase 1 is in front of you on 3.254 acres. This is for 4 units in each of 4 buildings. There are privately maintained streets involved also.When utility upgrades are completed they Ould add more units to this. His was a condition of the PUD zone change. A HEC-Ras study was sent to IDNR. Ultimately there will be a permit needed for construction within the floodway.
When the improvement plan is submitted they will get into the landscaping requirements. INDOT permits will occur at this time also.
Building spacing is 20 ft apart. Front yard setback is proposed as 25 ft. had some issues determining what the setback actually was. They want to see clearly the setbacks from SR 56 and the private lane.
There is support letter from City of Aurora as they are in the process of annexation.
Lang asked if they had copy of the HEC-Ras. She said yes- there is a lot to that.
Mark Banshbach said they are trying to get this started to be within the 2 year timetable of the ordinance. He talks to Rising Sun and Aurora every week. He is looking to TIFing with Aurora or the county.He noted that nothing happens exactly as you think it should. He has two other companies handling the flood plain issues. They think they have met all the preliminary requirements for primary plat approval. They have verified the need for the setbacks and they will have that on the documents.
Open PUBLIC Discussion
No one here to speak on this
Closed PUBLIC Discussion
Lehman motioned to approved Primary Plat for 16 units in the PUD with the condition that they meet #11 requirements of staff report before the improvement and Lang seconded. All ayes Approved.
ADMINISTRATIVE:
Discuss adding text to the requirements of Land Division for split labeling remainders as Buildable or Non- Buildable and labeling remainders with approximate acreage.- Daily went over the text changes with examples of remainders that are truly NON buildable. They want to ask surveyors to label it as such. Extended discussion on this and also the restrictive covenants tat they have seen with this issue also. Daily will reword this to reflect their suggestions.
Discuss and vote on Panhandle lot width changes for Subdivision OrdinanceArticle 3 section 3155- Lot Arrangement and sizes. Single flag lots and 30 ft - 60 ft. Two continuous flag lots will share a single driveway. Changed images to show more clearly. This is to finish up last month’s discussion on this. Asked to get their vote on this to send a favorable recommendation to Commissioners. Beiersdorfer motioned and Lang seconded to forward favorable recommendation to Commissioners. All ayes.
Discuss the definition of living area for the zoning ordinance. In 2019 and 2020 discussions on living area. Minimum of 900 ft for first floor measurement. Tiny homes were in this discussion. The definition of minimum living area IC 36-74-906 was discussed by Baudendistel. Occupied space is only used for manufactured homes. Starting in July there is a change that only applies to manufactured homes. Minimum living area - 950 sq feet for single family, 750 sq ft for multifamily. This will have to go to Commissioners. Commissioners were leaning to having 950 sq ft. Board decided to have her advertise this and not calling it living space but maybe foot print etc. - for another meeting.
Discuss adding a grass ordinance and enforcement actions within the unincorporated areas of the county.- Board was not particularly in favor of creating this.
Existing Ponds- and splitting property. Daily will try to set up some text verbiage for that. This was not on agenda.
Discuss Updating the Dearborn County Comprehensive Plan there 2025, workshops for public involvement, surveys, completed studies plans to be included, separate Bright Overlay Zoning Districts, etc. - No details on this item.
Next Update Workshop is July 24 from 6-8 PM in the Dearborn County Government Center. Questions can be asked by calling Nicole Daily at 812-537-8821
There is a Comprehensive Plan 4-5:30 PM at library with Green Umbrella.
Daily is running ads with Eagle Radio 99.3 on each month they are having Comp Plan Update Workshops. There will also be a banner on their website for this. She said the post card sent once costs about $8,000. So this is a cheaper choice.
Meeting adjourned at 8:05 PM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
