28 January 2008 Dearborn County Plan Commission Notes

28 January 2008 Dearborn County Plan Commission Notes

Present: Mike Hall, Chairman, Dennis Kraus, Jr., Bob Laws, Nick Held, Ken Nelson, Ralph Thompson, Dan Lansing (new Council rep), Russell Beiersdorfer, and Mark Lehman (two new citizen appointees.)

Also present: McGill, Attorney, and McCormack, Plan Director

Mike Hall was voted as President and Dennis Kraus, Jr. is Vice president. Mark McCormack is secretary.

This meeting was preceded by an executive session. Thompson motioned and Lehman seconded to authorize Mark McCormack to issue and file a formal complaint for non-professional and non-standard operations for a local (unnamed) surveyor. All ayes.

Members spent nearly 2 hours discussing changes to the zoning and subdivision control ordinances.

FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATIONS were passed on to the commissioners for changes to:

Article 4 which puts the plan Commission in charge of performance bonds and letters of credit and increased the notification period to 30 days.

Article 22 section 2275 on fencing requirements in front yards and exempting agricultural USES from those permits.

Article 25 Section 2516 on the location of accessory structures related to fences as well.

Article 3 Section 305 D – members chose Option 1 sending any access to collectors or arterials with traffic counts greater than 1000 vpd to the PC and less than that to Tech review to decide.

Article 24 Section 2404 on functional roadway classifications fixed the list of collector roads deleting Bonnell and Burzelbach and Grelle and Sagamaw (due to low traffic counts) and eliminating Elam and substituting Weisberg Road.

The board voted to TABLE article 3 section 315 on flag lots for further review.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

1. 2007 Annual report was in their packets

2. 2. St. Leon has had special meetings on revising their ordinances and comp plan. Both they and west Harrison have paid for the assistant planner’s help for 2008 per contractual agreement.

3. Fiscal impact analysis is proceeding with OKI- they have narrowed to 3 consultants so far. Hope to be completed in 9 months. McCormack found out that with the new rules- the $50,000 they had encumbered from the master plan to pay for this has to be re-requested from Council. $15,000 is for OKI and $35,000 is needing to be re-requested as there is no invoice for it yet.

4. Messmore’s letter stating they lost out on the hometown Competitiveness program is in their packet.

5. Assistant Planner helped Bright get a $70,000 grabt for their fire dept.

6. There is a CD of the Commissioners meeting on the master plan for members to review to get everyone up to speed.

7. White Pines is returning in February.

8. McCormack welcomed the 3 new members: Lehman, Lansing, and Beiersdorfer.

9. McCormack is participating in the Muscular Dystrophy fund raiser next week.

Meeting adjourned at 9:25 PM

Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township