Board of Zoning Appeals - Regular Meeting

If you'd uh please rise and join with me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all on that than there are outside. Mrs. Morris Smith, could you call the role, please? Roger here. Michael D.

Mr. Dy here. He said here we have as well. Mr. D, you'll have to present yourself while you're talking. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Yes. Okay, I'm present. Thank you. Arnold Sims here. William Hutton here. Thomas Casmir here. Danceal here. Thomas Dverton here. Marcus Taylor here. Dean Button here. Nine present. We have a quorum. Thank you. Uh item three is approval of minutes from October 20th 25 2025. Chair would entertain a motion for approval.

I'll make that motion. It's been moved by Commissioner Hutton, seconded by Councilman Spatitali to uh consider approval of the minutes of October 20th. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger. Yes. Michael Dy. Yes. Ronald Sim. Yes. William Hutton. Yes. Thomas Casmier. Yes. Fatali. Yes. Thomas Dton. Yes. Marcus T. Yes. Dean Buddy. Yes. Nine eyes. Zero nays. Motion pass. Thank you, Mrs. Morris Smith. U. Next item on the agenda is uh item four, old business. Uh there is no old business.

Thank you. Item five is new business. Item [snorts] uh CP25-9 is a petition of Woodmar Plaza LLC for approval of a three lot subdivision of Blackstone addition to the city of Hammond located at 1812 through 28 165th Street which is zone C4 general commercial district within the city of Hammond Lake County Indiana. Uh, the chair would ask if the public notification requirements have been met. Yes, they have. Thank you very much, Mrs. Morris Smith. Uh, I would turn over to the petitioner for presentation, Mr. Yani.

Good evening. Uh, Scott Yaney appearing on behalf of, and I'll explain everybody in a moment, but to start off with, Woodmar Plaza LLC, uh, the property owner. Um trying to forget my address is 3 Lincoln Way Sweet 2011 Valparezo Indiana 46383. Uh as I indicated appearing on behalf of the property owner for the property that's commonly known as 181228 through 28 165th Street in Hammond. Um, Woodmart Plaza LLC is the denominated petitioner and we're before you this evening uh seeking approval uh in response to an application for a new subdivision. Uh I'm also here on behalf of Northshore Health Centers, Inc. Um and Woodmar is pro proceeding with the ascent of Northshore Health Centers. uh and we have given uh power limited power of attorney on behalf of both entities so that I could be here tonight. Um but I also want to point out uh that I'm also here on behalf of Black Rockck Capital LLC uh through its principal Redstone who is seated with us here this evening. Um, and Red is going to be the ultimate, if this all pans out, the ultimate developer for this uh property and is the person responsible for putting essentially this application together. Uh, so this is the property that was formerly uh Walmart. Uh, so we have our our neighbors uh seated with us this evening. And uh this was lot 8 uh of that Rublock subdivision.

Um and we're seeking to subdivide lot A into three separate parcels. Uh and you'll see that uh in the uh the folks at Teranga Engineering put together a uh proposed subdivision plat which you should all have in your material. So you can see the uh delineation of the three separate parcels. Uh as was pointed out at the outset uh this is designated uh C4 [snorts] general commercial uh district zoning uses uh and we will continue to observe that zoning designation. If this uh application is approved, uh Redd will go through with his property or his process to acquire the property. Uh and although it's not necessarily a subject of our petition, I know that uh members of the commission like to know have a general sense of uh what we contemplate for the development of this parcel. And then that does go into determining whether our uh lot designations will be viable for development. So there where we do know that in advance we can at least give you uh some insight. Uh and I've given you in our uh material specifically in the supporting uh letter some uh material and I think Mr. Mr. Hutton will disclose to you all tonight that he was integral in helping us put together uh not this part of the process in terms of the uh the plat application but what we would like to eventually do on the ground if we make it uh through this evening. Uh and essentially we have a big expanse of parking lot right now that's not broken up. Uh and as we know

that Walmart building has been vacant for some period of time. We envision eventually u two outlots. Uh if we look on the what would be the uh northeast corner uh we have a contemplated rather a smaller development that could be for example a standalone uh coffee or doughnut shop for an enduser. We don't have someone in mind or targeted just yet. And then for the northwest corner, uh we have in mind uh um we have a footprint for a 14,000 square foot building that could be for a single user or could accommodate up to five retail restaurant type users. uh and in deciding these lot designations uh we've considered setbacks uh considered parking and therefore you will see some contemplated site plans that we have in mind uh for this development. Uh and you'll also see that um we're looking to enhance and add some vibrancy um that will um coexist and actually I think ultimately help serve the interests associated with the uh the de development going on to our east uh because we'll have a home for some people that don't have a home right now is contemplated as part of this part of this development. Uh so we're going to greatly improve what is there now. We're going to have uh landscaping buffers. We're going to break up that expanse of uh of uh asphalt. And you'll see from the uh renderings that we've included and the elevations uh that this is proposed to be high quality uh construction

um utilizing uh masonry building material and uh you know the the the drawings that I have provided will give you some sense of what we contemplate. Um but uh Mr. Poland has uh you know the more detailed drawings. Uh we do have a somewhat complicated feature associated with this particular parcel. Uh as I mentioned I'm here on behalf of three parties and with the consent of all three parties tonight. Some years ago was it 2022 ra give or take? Yeah, I think it was 2022. The current owner of lot 8, Woodmar Plaza through a meets and bounds legal description conveyed real estate to Northshore within the footprint of the Walmart building. Now, spoke to Mr. Poland about this early on and said, "Well, how did that happen?" because it didn't come before all of you for a subdivision, right? And uh and so that transfer was not in compliance with the subdivision control ordinance. Now, doesn't mean they can't do it legally, but it does lead to some problems and that was problem number one for us to clean up and figure out how we could go forward. Turns out this is a rather complicated process, but it's going to be a condition of any uh if you all gave us an approval tonight that we follow this process. So I do want to lay it out to you at least in some form and Mr. Poland and I have worked on this and how to order it for the last couple of months and also with the various parties involved and we've got something that works for everyone. Now um we have an agreement under which we are going to condominiumize uh the entire building. So we're going

to convert the existing Walmart building to a condominium which just means divided property and we will divide that into separate units. Right now we have where Northshore Medical Clinic is located and um you'll see in our materials we've denominated that for right now for purposes of the condominium not necessarily an address an address uh as unit 100 and then they have sublet or I'm sorry there is a separate unit for city trends that's also located in in that uh in that building. So that would be unit 101 and then we've designated the rest of that for unit 102. However, that's going to be broken up by the needs of eventual owners that owners or lees. So we're looking at a number right now. I know that uh red has been uh speaking with the city's economic development team just kind of letting them know who might be on the way. I know the mayor is very well informed on this discussion as well. And so we're trying to meet the need of some people that need places to go, but also for uh new new uses as well. Uh so what we would do here uh is we've created and I've created a condominium uh declaration to which all the parties have agreed. It's going to need some refinement if we divide further, but we can do that in the future. And thereafter we're going to have to observe a uh kind of a chain of uh title transfer here in that Northshore is going to give the property that it now has back to Woodmar. Then we would record the plat of subdivision. We can't record the plat of subdivision until after we make that transfer. Otherwise, right now, Northshore owns part of the ground

accordingly and it would we don't want to create somebody looking back, you know, 20 years from now. Do we have a gap in the chain of title? So, we'll record the plat of subdivision. Then we'll record the declaration of the condominium. Uh and then thereafter, Woodmar is going to give a deed for uh the two condominium units, unit 100 and unit 101 back to Northshore. So that gets our legal title and gets everybody in order. Um so this all will work for all of the parties after we kind of figured out how to navigate. We're going to have a title company sit in the middle, hold these documents in escrow. Uh but tonight we're seeking approval of this subdivision. Uh and uh hope that we have shown you that this is a good fit for the city of Hammond and that we've met all the criteria uh under the uh subdivision control ordinance.

Thank you, Mr. Yani, for your presentation. Questions from the commission to Mr. Yani. Mr. President. Sure. Mr. I'd like to go on record right now by saying that I may have a conflict of interest on this case. I will take your direction whether to participate or to sit back and wait. So, I just wanted you to know that. Sure. Well, we appreciate your candid comments, uh, Mr. Hutton. And I'm not sure what the conflict is, but we'll we'll help with as we move forward, I guess. Mr. I

I would suggest, Mr. Chairman, that in light of what's what's been disclosed at this point and and nothing more needs to be disclosed unless somebody wants to. But my advice to Mr. Hutton would be that that he abstain from this vote and recuse himself from the discussion. Thank you, sir. Will do. Thank you, Mr. Uh any uh questions uh from commissioners to the petitioner.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Yaney. Mr. Stone, appreciate that. Um at this point in time, we're going to open it uh the uh the meeting up for a public hearing. So uh the meeting is now open for a public hearing. Uh is there anyone wishing to speak in favor of this petition? Anyone wishing to speak in opposition to this petition? Anyone wishing to make comment of any kind on this petition? Anyone on uh electronic media wishing to make a comment on this petition? I see no um no one's taking me up on my offer to make a comment. So, at this point, we'll close the public hearing portion of this meeting. Mr. Annie, I assume you have nothing further to present at this time.

No, nothing further. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Annie. Appreciate that. Uh so, at this point in the meeting, we will uh turn over to Mr. Poland as staff to uh present staff's opinion on this petition. Mr. Poland. U attorney Yi explained the uh the uh chain of how we're going to get this through the approval process. It's been uh quite uh an interesting challenge of trying to figure out how to make it work. Um I do want to comment that um also on the property there is a 1997 covenants conditions restricted restrictions and reciprocal agreements document and that addresses um a lot of the cross access easements and utilities and things like that that um runs with the property and um basically eliminates the need for uh platted uh utility easements. the uh with that the lots do meet all the minimum requirements for the uh under the subdivision ordinance. Um staff the plat was sent out for agency review. No objectives were received. Uh staff's opinion is the plat meets the requirements set forth in the subdivision control ordinance and recommends that the plan commission grant preliminary and final approval of the subdivision plat subject to the technical corrections of the subdivision plant and if the plan commission agrees with the staff report that it is recommended that the staff report is adopted as findings effect.

Thank you Mr. Poland. Questions from the commissioners to Mr. Poland. Okay, seeing none, um chair would entertain uh a motion to grant but by this commission to grant preliminary and final approval of the subdivision plat subject to the technical corrections of the plat. Second. It's been moved by Commissioner Dabberton, seconded by Commissioner Casmirac to approve uh to grant preliminary and final approval of subdivision plat subject to technical corrections. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger. Yes.

Michael Dy, yes. Ronald Sims, yes. William Hutton. Abstain. Thomas Casmi Zach. Yes. Fatali. Yes. Thomas Dverton. Yes. Marcus Taylor. Yes. Dean Button. Yes. Eight eyes, zero nazs, one extension. Motion pass. Thank you. Congratulations on your petition [clears throat] approval.

Can I say something quick? I would just like to say thank you to everybody at Hammond. This started a couple years ago. I lived in I have a business in Lancing. I was looking to I wanted to go to Hammond and I was looking on LootNet. I couldn't find anything. And so then I talked to Ann Taylor and she's like, "Oh, we we have, you know, different stuff here and there, but I had already purchased something in Cal City." But during that process, that's how I got interested in this in this building. So, I just want to say I think you guys run a really good city. You should be proud of, you know, what you guys are doing. So, I just want to thank you. Thank you, Oie. Uh, Mayor McDermott know that you've attended the meeting and made your comments. Yep. Thank you. Thank you, Mr.

Okay. Uh, there's nothing further. President, Mr. We also not have Oh, thank you very much. Thank you. Uh, I appreciate that. Um, so, uh, the chair would entertain a motion to accept the, uh, staff report as a finding of fact. So, move second. It's been moved by Commissioner Kazmir Zack, seconded by Commissioner Dverton to accept the staff report as a finding of fact. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger. Yes. Michael Dy, yes. Ronald Sims, yes. William Hutton

absent. Thomas Casmir Zach yes. Dance Fatali. Thomas Daberson. Yes. Marcus Taylor. Yes. Dean Button. Yes. Eight eyes, zero nays. One extension. Motion pass.

Thank you, Mrs. Moore Smith. Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Kazir. Mirzac, for keeping me honest. Uh so the next uh new business item is CP25-10, petition of the Crossroads YMCA, Inc. for approval of a one lot subdivision of the YMCA Sports Facilities addition to the city of Hammond located at 6532 Indianapolis Boulevard in the Hammond Sports Facilities planned unit development within the city of Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. I'd ask Mrs. Morris Smith. Uh if the notification requirements for the petition have been met. Yes, they have.

Thank you very much. I will uh turn it over to the petitioner. If you could uh state your name uh and your address and if you could fill in the uh signin sheet for our records, we would greatly appreciate it. I'm gonna I'm gonna finish that when we're done if that's okay with you. For sure. Great.

Um, good evening. My name is James Hus. I'm with DVG Team. Um, uh, their business address is 1155 Trotwine Road, Crown Point, Indiana 46307. I am speaking tonight, uh, representing Crossroads YMCA, the owner of the properties. uh that these next three agenda items are for um Russ Posen who has been heading up this project unfortunately had a minor um family medical emergency. All is well, but he there was no way he can make it tonight, so he asked me to fill in. Um Jay Buckmaster with Crossroads YMCA is with me tonight and hopefully um from what I've been briefed on the project and what Jay knows more, I'm I'm sure we can we can answer any questions. Um I would like to speak on if if you would indulge me to kind of speak on the what's before you. I know we only said one of them so far, but requesting pro approval from uh plan commission tonight is the first item is essentially a consolidation plat. Um what is existing three lots today. We're looking to consolidate into into a single lot. Um the master plan for the site is um obviously there's work going on there right now with eventual plans for um outdoor pool, water park, what have you. And then the third phase is um as leases come up um there's two commercial buildings on the north edge of the consolidated property. Uh the intent is for those to be demolished that the left building is in the footprint of uh the water park. And then the intent for when the the northeastern building can be um torn down is that that will be an expansion cohesive expansion of the of the parking area further north to 165th Street. Um, and I trust that um, it's a very complicated set of plans, but um, it's basically more just showing the phases that will go um, as as buildings can be torn down and the the the whole master plan can be enacted more fully. Um, so agenda item CP 2510 is simply asking for

an approval of a of a one lot subdivision to consolidate the land. Um, uh, agenda item Hold on. Hold on. Yes, sir. Yeah. No, stick to the first one. But we have we have to do them one at a time. Understood. Um then I I guess as it relates to the plat I I will leave it at that and um happy to answer any questions. Thank you Mr. Hus. Questions from the commission to Mr. Hus regarding subject petition. Starting with two and three and three.

So we're we're doing CP2-10 and we're consolid the request is to consolidate three lots into one. Does that answer your question, Councilman? Uh, yeah. Okay. Any other questions for the petitioner? Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you. This point in time, uh, we will open the meeting up to a public hearing if there's anyone in the audience wishing to, uh, speak on behalf of this petition. Anyone wishing to speak in opposition to this petition? Anyone wishing to speak uh make a comment on this petition? Is there anyone online wishing to make a comment on this petition? Hearing none. And I'll close the public comment portion of the meeting. Mr. Hus, I assume you have nothing further to add. Thank you very much. Uh Mr. Poland, it's your turn to present the staff's recommendation.

Yeah. Um just to go over some of the the technical as aspects of the subdivision plat. Uh one of the important things of making this work is that in the original three lots that were there, there were various utility easements that and access easements that uh separated um the two northern lots from the the southern lot and those were released and so therefore has um those are reflected on the subdivision plat as being released and ultimately that would allow for the development to be built across it. Uh no new additional um easements were required because all of this will be coming from um the there there are some existing easements that are on the western side of the property and um all the utilities are coming from all the appropriate places. So they didn't need any easements in the center. Um, one of the technical things is some of the language on the plat regarding the detention or drainage easement that uh uh the city engineer had requested. It comes down to the technical dedication language and that's in the certification statement. Um, we have not uh got gotten that language finalized but uh hopefully that will be addressed um tomorrow. Um, other than the city engineers comments, no other obje no other comments or objections are received from the review agencies. Uh, staff's opinion is the plat meets the requirements set forth in the set of vision control ordinance and recommends that the plan commission grant preliminary and final approval of the subdivision plat subject to the technical corrections of the plat and in particular this easement uh language. [snorts] If the plan commission agrees with the staff report is recommended, the staff report is adopted as funding effect. questions from the commissioners to Mr. Poland. Okay. Thank you very much. Chair would entertain a motion to uh grant

preliminary and final approval of subdivision plat subject to technical corrections of the plat. So moved by uh Commissioner Dverton, seconded by Councilman Spatali. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger. Yes. Michael Dy, yes. Robert Sims, yes. William Hutton, yes. Thomas Casmierzac, yes. Dance Batali, yes. Thomas Dverton, yes. Marcus Taylor, yes. Dean Button, yes. Nine eyes, zero nays, zero abstensions. Motion pass. Thank you very much. Chair would also entertain a motion to adopt the staff report as a finding of fact.

So moved. Second. Moved by Commissioner Kazmir, seconded by Councilman Spatali. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger Bra, yes. Michael Dy, yes. Ronald Sims, yes. William Huden, yes. Thomas Casmier, yes. Dan Patali, Thomas, yes. Marcus Taylor, yes. Dean Button, yes. Nine eyes, zero nays, zero extensions. Motion passed.

Thank you very much. Uh, congratulations. And we're moving on to CP25-11, a petition of Crossroads YMCA, Inc. for the approval of a development plan in the Hammond Sports Facilities Planned Unit development district located at 6532 Indianapolis Boulevard within the city of Lake City of Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. Uh, I would ask if Mrs. Moore Smith if the notification requirements have been met. Yes, they have. Thank you very much. uh turn it over to petitioner Mr. Hus again for presentation.

Um the second item on your agenda 2511 is is essentially requesting approval of the the underlying engineering the master plan for the site. Um it's very um very detailed. It's essentially three projects in one. Um and it it outlines um certain immediate work that will be done to the site. um the interim maintenance of that um access to Indianapolis Boulevard. Um and then details the second phase where you would then construct the water park um once the western commercial building can be can be torn down. And then finally, it outlines the last phase at which we would finish the demolition of the um northeastern building and then and then complete the parking lot and um terminate that access that exists to Indianapolis Boulevard. Um so um um again this item is simply requesting approval of the the overall site development the underlying engineering behind it and um from what I've been told I believe um uh Russ has um completed that to the city satisfaction.

Thank you. Uh questions from the commissioners to uh the petitioner the water park. Uh when will we uh hit on get things going with Good evening Jay Buckmaster 1205 South Main Street Crown Point. Uh we would hope to again in partnership uh with um with Mr. stone uh have the uh first lot uh demoed by the spring and then it would take us about a year to be able to do that. So, we're hoping for an opening of the summer of 27. Great. Jay, if you wouldn't mind signing in

um just so we have a record. Thank you so much. Any other questions for the petitioner? Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Uh, at this point we're opening it up to a public hearing. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak in favor of the petition? Anyone in the audience wishing to speak in opposition to the petition? Anyone in the audience wishing to make comment on the petition? Anyone on virtual media wishing to make comment on the petition? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing portion of the meeting. Mr. Mr. Ross, I assume you have nothing further to present to the commission.

Thank you very much on this action, I should say. Uh so at this point in time, I will turn it over to Mr. Poland for uh staff's report and recommendation.

Um yes, this is uh u a long time coming. We've talked about this project for several years now. Um this is uh was identified in the original documents as going to be an ultimate phasing of it to have the water park. Um certainly gets complicated because of the existence of the two commercial buildings and and and all the timing of demolition and removal of tenants. Um but as the in the development plan um the all these different steps as are are laid out um the staff did the analysis um that's in the staff report based on title section 16.51 of the zoning ordinance. Um and um I think one of the important things compared to the uh the version of this a couple years ago is that the signalized entrance on Indianapolis Boulevard is now operational. And I think that was one of the things that was pivotal to make this development overall work um in in dealing with the the traffic congestion and the flows of in and in and out of the property. Uh that being said, um staff does recommend that the plan commission grant final grant approval to the final development plan subject to the approval and recording of the YMCA sports facilities edition subdivision plan to approval of the amended uh sports facilities Hammond sports facilities PUD district ordinance and that's which is the next case and the final technical review. If the plan commission agrees with the recommendation, the staff requests that this report be adopted by the plan commission as preliminary findings effect.

Thank you, Mr. Bolan. Questions from the commissioners to Mr. Bolan. Okay. Uh chair would entertain a motion to grant final development plan approval for the subject subject to approval and recording of the YMCA Sports Facilities Edition subdivision plat. to approval of the amended Hammond Sports Facility PUD teristic district ordinance and final technical review. Second. Moved by uh Commissioner Dverton, seconded by Commissioner Taylor. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger Bry, yes. Michael Guy,

yes. Ronald Sims, yes. William Hutton, yes. Yes. Thomas Casmier Zac. Yes. Dance Fatali. Yes. Thomas Dabberton. Yes. Marcus Taylor. Yes. Dean Button. Yes. Nine eyes, zero nays, zero abstensions. Motion pass. Thank you very much. Uh, the chair would entertain a motion to adopt the staff report as a preliminary finding of fact. So moved. Second. Moved by Commissioner Casmirzac, seconded by Councilman Batitali. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Patrick, yes. Michael Dy, yes. Ronald Sims, yes. William Hutton, yes. Thomas Casmir, yes. Natali, yes. Thomas Dverton, yes. Marcus Taylor, yes.

Dean Button, yes. Nine eyes, zero nays, zeroions. Motion passed. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Uh, next item on the agenda is CP25-12 petition uh, of the Hammond Plan Commission for an amendment to the Hammond Sports Facilities Planned Unit development ordinance located at 6532 through 6630 Indianapolis Boulevard and 1918 through 1940 165th Street within the city of Hammond. Uh, I'd ask um, Mrs. Mrs. Morris Smith, if the notification requirements for the petition have been met. Yes, they have. Thank you, Mr. President.

Mr. Poland, uh staff um request. Is there any objections for the staff to make the presentation as well as act as a reviewer? Is there any objection from the commissioner for Mr. Pollen to act as the petitioner and as a staff reviewer? See no objections. Chair has no objections. Please continue. Mr. Poland.

Members of the plan commission, before you, you have an amendment to the Hammers Sports Facilities Plan Unit development district ordinance for the property. um that ultimately once the subdivision plat is completed we'll have two addresses of 6532 for the YMCA and 6600 for the sportslex. The PUD ordinance can be found in PUD supplement number four. This is reflective of the original ordinance of in uh I'm sorry I lost my original ordinance 9378 that was in in 2017 and the first amendment in 90 ordinance 9572 in 2022 and all of that is what we're trying to do is is remove some of the language that was there in place because the Carson building used to be there um the the Y obviously is now completing the rest of its project. So, we have the commercial buildings and what we're try what I tried to do in writing this ordinance is anticipate ultimately the final phase of both those commercial buildings being gone with the expansion of the um water park and then on the east building that will be where more of the parking lot is. So, um you're going to see in the ordinance strikethroughs of language, um underlines of new language. Um it's not every section of the PUD ordinance that is encaps captured here. It is only the places that are changing. And um we I set up this concept of buildings three and four which are the two commercial buildings are interim because we know ultimately they're going

to go away. So we don't have to come back in two years to amend this again. And um we also had to do a little amendment to the sports plex because when they built that addition it was slightly larger than what we had anticipated in the previous version of this. So, we did some corrections to to make that all work out. Um, and so, okay, that's the uh the technical presentation. If there's any questions, questions from the commissioners to Mr. Poland as petitioner. Mr. Poland, just a point of clarification. Um, this is just the amend you said this is just the amendments. Do do you create a final document? Yes.

That's that's an entire Yes. summary of everything that's get that goes to the council for approval. No, no, no, no. Okay. What what happens and this is the way I've always written these. This is the sections that are technically being amended. Once the council approves it, then I go back into the digital document, make those corrections, and then that's the the new version of the zoning ordinance. And you refer to the previous ordinances as they were approved in that ordinance and the new All all the ordinances are cross- referenced in the small in small print. Everything's identified where the amendment or the change came from. Wonderful. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for Mr. Poland as petitioner?

Thank you, Mr. Poland. Uh we will now open the this portion of the meeting up to a public comment. Is there anyone wishing to speak in favor of the petition? Anyone wishing to speak in opposition of the petition? Anyone wishing to have a comment on the petition? Anyone on virtual media wishing to make a comment on the petition? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing portion of the meeting and I will turn it over to Mr. Poland who is acting as staff at this point. Mr. Poland.

Yes. Um I I do want to uh acknowledge and appreciate the fact that the the team from the YMCA um has been cooperative and working through all this language. I I don't know if I should say Russ particularly, but but nonetheless, um Russ Posen uh and I had a lot of email conversations back and forth and and double-checking um all the details that have become very important and and uh certainly let him know that it was well appreciated. Uh that being said, um staff does recommend that the uh plan commission uh approve the text amendments to the PUD supplement number four amending ordinances 9378 and 9572 and zoning ordinance 8514 regarding the Hammond Sports Facilities Planned Unit development district and forward the ordinance to the city council with a favorable recommendation. If the plan commission agrees with the recommendation, staff requests that this report be adopted by the plan commission as findings effect.

Questions to Mr. Poland as staff hearing? None. Chair would entertain a motion to approve the text amendments to PUD supplement number four amending ordinances 9378 and 9572 and zoning ordinance 8514 regarding the Hammond Sports Facilities Plan Unit development district and forward the ordinance to the city council with a favorable recommendation. Thank you. Thank you Mr. David. Seconded by Councilman Spatali. Is there any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger Bry, yes. Michael Dy, yes. Ronald Sims, yes. William Hutton,

yes. Thomas Casmier Zac, yes. Dance Fatali, yes. Thomas Dverton, yes. Marcus Taylor, yes. Dean Button, yes. Nine eyes, zero nays, zero abstensions. Motion passed. Uh, chair would entertain a motion to accept the staff report as a finding of fact. Second. I think I heard Councilman Spatali uh making the motion and the second by Commissioner Taylor. Yes. Is there any discussion on the motion? Any discussion? Any discussion? Roll call on the motion. Roger Brad? Yes. Michael Dy? Yes. Ronald Sims? Yes. William Hutton? Yes. Thomas Casmier? Yes. Dan Fatali? Yes. Thomas Dverton? Yes. Marcus T? Yes. Dean Button?

Yes. Nine eyes, zero nays, [singing] zero extensions. Motion passed. Thank you. Congratulations to petitioner. Um, Mr. President, Mr. Poland. Yes. Um, I have a question for Councilman Spatali. Councilman Spatali. Yeah, I have a question for you. I can hear you. Okay. All right. Um, in case I cannot get a hold of Councilman Tyler, would you agree to be a sponsor on this? Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Spatali. Okay, if there's nothing further, we're going to move on to uh item six, correspondence. No correspondence. Item seven is commissioner's comments.

Well, I'd like to wish you all a merry Christmas. Item eight is uh staff comments. Um, I'd like to also wish you a merry Christmas and um, there is a possibility that we will have something on the uh, January uh, agenda and I'm sorry, the date of that is the 20th, right? Yeah, the 20th. Yes,

it would be Tuesday, which would be the day after MLK day. And um, hopefully before Christmas, I'll know for sure if anything's going to make it uh, to that agenda. keep your calendars open for January 20th, Tuesday, for plan commission meeting. The other thing I want to say is that um and then uh president can speak to it also but um we've been working on um this project with the uh for the South Hammond um area be related to the uh Nicki Station and based on some of the TOD or transit development district transit oriented development um impacts of what that um station will have on the neighborhood including traffic, but also there's a land use component of it for the uh the target area or the and um ultimately we're designing this to be a uh an amendment to the comprehensive plan and um that should once we get to the point of of of getting the final drafts and we'll hopefully start that process later this year. Um, and then I I know we're talking about another public meeting coming up and the date is still open and then um we can certainly let the plan commission members know about that date and they can attend the the public meetings if they wish.

Yeah, we should I'll work on getting a special invitation sent out to the plan commission members so you're aware of it. It is an important update to our comprehensive plan. Thank you for bringing that up, Mr. Poland. We'll get you once we find out a firm date. We'll get those dates to you. Uh I take it that's the end of your staff comments. Yes. Okay. Uh public comment. Meetings open to the public. Anyone wishing to address the plan commission? Hearing none. Chair would entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Been moved and properly seconded. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. I motion carries. We are adjourned. Take care everybody.