Plan Commission - Regular Meeting

You ready, Tim?

Yes.

Okay, let's go ahead and bring the June 23rd, 2026 plan commission meeting to order. Micah, can we have a roll call and a declaration of quorum, please? Mr. Grubbs?

Yes. Here's Cole. Yes. Mr. Beeman? Yes. Mr. O'Ree? Yes. Mr. Turner? Yes. Mrs. Williams? Yes. Mr. House? Yes. Mr. Spencer? Here.

Okay, can we stand for a quick invocation? Pledge of Allegiance. Dear Heavenly Father, please give us the wisdom to make decisions that are Good and healthy for our great community, Anderson, great state, Indiana, greatest country in the world, United States of America. Still, let's remember that we do have men and women fighting for our freedoms all over this world. Let's keep them in our hearts, please. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

No minutes today. Mr. Stiers.

Thank you. We do have three items on the agenda tonight. Sorry to report, but none of them will be acted on this evening due to some late notice we received this afternoon. Starting with our first one, petition 2225, ordinance 3525, submitted by Kelly Drews. This is for zone map change from I-1 to I-2 industrial. This is located at 2304 Crystal Street, the former military museum. As you can see from the agenda, this item has been on the agenda since last December. It's been tabled since last December. We've had no action, no movement by the petitioner to get his building or his stuff in order. So we informed Mr. Drews that we were going to dismiss this if we didn't see some noticeable progress. You've got his email there with your short staff report. Okay. He understands and he will refile when the time is appropriate. So I would ask this first one, petition 2225, be brought off the table and dismissed.

Make a motion to dismiss. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second to dismiss petition 2225. Consider the motion to table first, Mr. Oh, sure. Yeah, thank you. I'd like to take

Petition 2225 off the table, please. Second.

All in favor of taking petition 2225 off the table, signify by saying aye, please. Aye. Any opposed? No. It's off the table. Now we can take action. All right.

I make a motion to dismiss petition 2225, please. Second.

Motion and a second to dismiss. Petition 2225, roll call vote.

Mr. President, I have one question for legal. Because I have a little concern with the letter that was given to him. Because it almost indicates if they remodel the building, we're going to have to go that we're going to change the zoning. That's kind of what it reads. If you read the letter.

The letter we sent to him?

Yes.

That just means that he can bring it back.

There's several problems with that. As former building commissioner, for them to remodel this building for the use that they want to do, it would require it to be filed with the state of Indiana because of the change of use. And it would kick in an array of building codes for that particular use. You can't even file it with the state of Indiana with the zoning that it's currently in. But as you read this... I've got a bad feeling he's going to interpret this. I've been talking to this man. The staff has told him if you remodel this, we're going to zone it. And I don't know that this commission would ever vote to rezone it for that, and I'm not sure the council would ever do that.

Are you concerned also, I could be completely, is there also a brownfield here too? I don't know.

I think the brownfield issue is the property in the county that's Not in our jurisdiction.

Okay.

This hasn't had a use on it that would create it.

That's what I was saying. I think we can resolve this by, I think we can take the action to dismiss it this evening. But I think maybe a follow-up email from, was this from you, Tim? From Micah.

You did Micah, okay. The property is currently zoned I-1, so there are uses that can go in that. So the only thing that he's trying to change the zone for is to be allowed to have the salvage operation go in there. So from an I-1 perspective, it's open to most things.

Once you follow up with an email advising him the action the board is seeking, that he'll have to change the zoning, he will have to refile, go through the entire process. It'll be at the discretion of the board and make a recommendation to the city council, and the city council ultimately will make a ruling on it. The matter of a change of the zoning. All right. I'll do that.

Good. We'll still need a roll call vote of the Commission members for the action.

Mr. Grubbs?

Yes.

Mrs. Culp? Yes. Mr. Beaman? Yes. Mrs. O'Reilly? Yes. Mrs. Williams? Yes. Mr. Howells? Yes. Mr. Hikes? Yes. Mr. Spencer? Yes. Mr. Stiers? Yes.

Second item, petition 5-26, submitted by PR Properties for a replat of lot 201 in Evelyn Edition. This is located on the southwest corner of West 3rd and Locust Streets. This was initially continued because we didn't have the owner here, Mr. Roger Shute. Last month, Mr. Shute hired an attorney at a late date, and the attorney asked for a continuance last month. And just in the last hour and a half, the attorney called me and said he had written down the wrong date for tonight's meeting as being next week. So he asked for a second continuance. So... Staff is fine with allowing the subsequent continuance and hearing this on July 28th. It's our next meeting.

I'll make a motion to continue this to the next Planning Commission, July 28th. Okay.

Yes. I'll second.

We have a motion and a second to continue Petition 5-26 until the next regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting. Micah, can we have a roll call vote of the members, please?

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Mr. Stiers.

Third item, petition 6-26, ordinance 826, submitted by Nadege Timotis for a zone map change from R2 residential to R3 residential. This is located at 1425 Dewey Street. We continued this after somewhat lengthy discussion last month. We wanted more clarification from the owner concerning any changes she was going to do to the structure to create a duplex. Sent her a lengthy list of items to bring to us. We waited, we waited, we didn't hear anything from her. Then her architect called us and asked for additional time, 30, maybe 60 days. So again, they're asking for a continuance for petition 626 so they can have more time for design of their plans for this site.

I make a motion that we continue petition 626.

Second. We have a motion and a second to continue petition 6-26. Micah, until the next regularly scheduled plan commission meeting. Micah, can we have a roll call vote of commission members, please?

Yes. Anything else, Mr. Steyer?

That is all. Did you get that stuff? This is a little bit of council stuff, but did you feel comfortable about that? And now I'm forgetting what I emailed you about. Because I wasn't here last month when that one, and I know you guys were not comfortable with.

Best ways.

Yes, best ways, yes. Did you get that?

I'm still looking at it. I mean, Micah and Tim, you guys might be able to answer. So my concern was that they could build some sort of dump or bring the dump operation closer to those residential properties, that there's a 300-foot setback that's in the rules so they could... Well, they've even offered a new site plan offering for a 300-foot wide buffer yard

Even before they've gone to the Board of Zoning Appeals where they'll have to provide some type of buffer yard. But they're starting off with a 300-foot wide buffer yard along the north property line.

Is that a permanent, like in 20 years, will someone be held to that buffer yard?

Oh, sure. We'll be around to make sure that gets taken care of.

Sure.

That was my question. No.

Just be 105.

The other thing that could have happened there that I thought of later was they could have replotted that. If they're never intending on building on that northern end of it, it could have turned into a different plant. Leave the zoning the way it is, and if they ever want to do it 20 years with none of us around, they'd have to go through the process again. That seemed to me like the way to win, to take care of what we would be concerned with. I actually did call Tyler after the meeting and suggest that to him as well. What was his response? He didn't have a problem. He said there were people who were supposed to be meeting with our staff the next day or two, but he didn't seem to have a problem with that. I don't know if he's been guided in a different way now.

I've not heard from him, no.

And my other thought was if they aren't doing any sort of operations that involve a dump or anything like that, does it need to be I-3? Like, are they really just doing offices?

I think they were just trying to match up their current zoning with the back piece that had a residential zoning. So they were just trying to coordinate things to be under the same zoning. But they've expressed the opinion that they really don't intend to do any construction back there, that everything they're wanting to do is remodel or expand the office up front so they have a little more room. And if they do double the size of the transfer station, they realize they need to go back before the Board of Zoning appeals in order for that to happen. So there are checks and balances here.

The other big problem with that is they don't have the intention now, but if they sell it to someone else, they may have a different intention.

Wouldn't they just need to have, I don't know the different letters, but wouldn't they need to have like a lighter category if they're just putting office buildings in there?

you know they wouldn't need to have a i mean i get what you're saying like you're trying not to spot it's on that one area like keep it all the same i just want to i just want to make sure we're protecting the neighborhood and and i know there are more houses going in so i just want to make sure if you do what i said you're not spot zoning right because you're keeping correct right up against them right right guarantee they're not gonna build anything right So I guess I'm just asking if maybe you guys can continue to reach out to them and talk to them before the council meeting.

My thing about it, absolutely anything in I-3, no matter what, it has to go to the BZA.

Right.

Whether it's a minor use or a major use, it has to go to BZA. Right.

I understand. That's the only question I had since I was in here last month.

Anything else? Okay. We might have a busy meeting next month. Meeting's adjourned.

Thank you.