22 November 2021 Dearborn County Plan Commission Meeting Notes
Present: Mark Lehman, Acting Chairman, Russell Beiersdorfer, John Hawley, Joe Vogel, Jake Hoog, Dan Lansing, Jim Thatcher, and Eric Lang
Also Present: Mark McCormack, Plan Director, Nicole Daily, Zoning Administrator,new P/Z staff member Dan ??last name, and Andy Baudendistel, Attorney.
ABSENT: Dennis Kraus, Jr., Chairman
Baudendistel read the Title VI statement as legally required.
No action on minutes.
OLD BUSINESS: none
NEW BUSINESS: none
ADMINISTRATIVE:
McCormack presented the input from the Workshops in writing. He compiled the comments on the people who disagree. He recommended inviting the people to come in at the January meeting rather than the week before Christmas. They want to do it in a thoughtful way.
Summary of the consultant for the first 2 workshop meetings of the year. For Ag and Rural residential- asked for beehives to be permitted. Most people are against having too much development in an Ag area. He wants them to decide on how much value we give to these comments. Do not make Ag less dense than it is now. Sewer availability allows people to have more options on lot size.
A resident of Scenic Drive was concerned with hay baling not being in Rural Residential. Should they add it.
Make 2 family a rural residential or Ag use. Rural residential had some livestock issues that may need to be addressed. Timber production for rural residential. Change it to timber harvesting perhaps. Hawley and Beiersdorfer talked about combining some of the uses under more general umbrellas. Someone wanted more than one horse per acre. Humane issues.
Considering Rural Residential being renamed to Ag 2.
R1 district and also revisit some of the areas in Bright and how they classified them on residential density. R-3 - Patio home classification needs to be looked at again. Townhouses, single family attached etc. McCormack needed to recheck that. Multifamily R3 - should be careful about this. Lehman thinks that they should come in to request a zone change for that. This also affects traffic infrastructure too. This zone will be more limited because we are a rural plan commission - not a municipal one. It’s hard to project an R-3 growth.
McCormack said they need to decide their mission.
Going through comments- McCormack wanted to have civil meetings with people commenting and not have communist labels, for example.
There were only 33 responses with surveys for 5 meetings and about 6 written comments submitted. About 25 people submitted their names to be contacted personally.
Comments from Mr. Beck and his group via email for board. Letter from Mueller Brauer Wunderlich (Willow Brook Acres) Farm passed to the board.
Comments from Pat Holland, Christine Cook, Ralph Thompson, and Johnny Wright also passed on to the board.
McCormack passed out a list of items to consider moving forward regarding changes requested in the proposed map and or text. Board to look it over and get back to him.
Permitting software is being redone and will work better. There is also a list of permit fees and increases that need to be put into effect for January 1st. Discussion regarding the issues with surveys that are not certified on time etc. Some are 3 years out. Discussion included that McCormack should raise fees in some of these tasks as they take a lot of time.
Next meeting will be on December 20th.
Meeting adjourned at 9:25 PM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
