23 January 2023 Dearborn County Plan Commission Meeting Notes
Present: Dennis Kraus, Jr., Chairman, Russell Beiersdorfer, Jeff Hermesch, Mark Lehman, Joe Vogel, Jake Hoog, Dan Lansing.
ABSENT: Jim Thatcher, Russell and Eric Lang.
Also Present: Nicole Daily, Zoning Administrator, and Andy Baudendistel, Attorney.
5 citizens were in the audience.
Baudendistel read the Title VI statement as legally required.
Election of Officers - Dennis Kraus Jr is Chairman, Mark Lehman is Vice chairman, and Nicole Daily is Secretary.
Andy Baudendistel was reappointed as Attorney.
ACTION ON MINUTES- December 19, 2022, January 27, 2020, February 24, 2020- [NOTE: 2 of the 3 minutes are from 2020] Minutes approved separately. They were amended to show that Bill Ullrich was in attendance for the 2020 ones.
OLD BUSINESS: none
NEW BUSINESS: none
ADMINISTRATIVE:
Signatures for Interlocal Agreements - these are with the Aurora, St. Leon, Dillsboro, and ?? were approved at the Commissioners meeting. The Plan Commission members approved and signed the agreements with increases in the fees. They are automatically renewing for 3 years.
Review and discuss proposed ordinance amendments and updates to the Dearborn County Zoning Ordinance, specifically with respect to the draft Zoning Map alternatives and the draft text(s) of: Articles 9 and 10, regarding Agricultural and Residential Zoning Districts; Article 25, regarding General Standards; Article 27, regarding Definitions
Nicole Daily went over the changes. The kennel licenses are for a commercial establishment- not for people who are just trying to keep a lot of dogs.No catteries are in it as they’ve never had requests for them. They worked to exclude R2 and R3 in the animal standards. Animal units are on a per acre basis.
They added 10 rabbits to the section 4 b in addition to the chickens allowed in the R2 ZONE.
PUBLIC COMMENT-
Corey Dawson- Brought up several examples of larger amounts of animals working n smaller lots. 800 sheep on 5 acres. He was told there is a way to get a variance with the BZA if they can demonstrate how they can do the increase. He likes a lot of what they have put in this. He sees some problems with some limitations. He offered his services to help the board.
Matt Probst- Noticed a lot of land going to Ag Homestead and Residential. There was discussion of no water, sewer, and poor internet. He noted that Old 350 doesn’t have a population of residents. Daily noted the homes there. He asked her if they were occupied or vacant homes. Are you basing it on access or lot size? Daily said both and other considerations. He noted with utilities there they are inadequate for increased development. Daily and the board told him that developers have to show that they are bringing adequate service. That is when the utility company gets consulted.
Chris Mueller- asked if the board wants to make it easy for development by zoning Residential along the utility lines. This sparked more discussion of what the map is trying to do. The board is trying to create transitions between uses. Also talked about the master plan advisory committee recommending a current land use map as the transitional zoning map to make it more defensible.
Steve Perrine asked about what the value is of Ag Homestead since all the issues are based on acreage in the text changes.
Closed public discussion.
Daily used state code for the large operations and concentrated feeding animal operations . CFO. That is different from Confined animal feeding operation. They defined several terms like tiny homes and short term rentals.
Daily introduced the new office manager who takes notes at the meetings too. Angel Shinkle.
February meeting have all the text looked at. Then go to the maps after that.
Meeting adjourned at 7:40 PM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
