Order. And we'll start off with the Pledge of Allegiance, named luckily. 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. All right.
sitting in for David Drake, so you have to bear with me a little bit. I've tried to watch and pay a
little attention, but do we need to do the roll call first? Is that? David Drake. Dan Swofford.
Steve Hale. Here. Zach Michael. Here. Pamela Samples. Here. Ryan Skaggs. And Pat Weslowski. Here. OK.
Need a motion for the approval of minutes from March 5th. So moved. Second. And do we have any conflict
of interest that needs to be brought up reference in today's agenda? Seeing none. Is there any old business
that we need to touch on or discuss? Nothing at all. And you want to go over the new business we're
here for tonight?
We're here for development plan approval of a modular home business. 10.7 acres located at 8650 West
Flatwoods Road. Petitioners Brett Oding case number PC 26-13. Are you ready for me to start with the
petition? As stated, petition is from Brett Oding. Parcel reference in the agenda is zone industrial
one, which is light industrial.
and the use is permitted by special exception. Industrial one is the only zoning that allows business
offices, general retail, warehousing and distribution. The business will be accessed from West Flatwoods
Road. The technical advisory committee met on March 24th and reviewed the plans to submit it. All items
have been addressed. Development plan meets the minimum requirements of the Ellisville town code.
There will be one accessible parking space at the office. 10 spaces for parking for employees and visitors
will also be located at the office and there'll be one parking space at the warehouse. The warehouse
will be used for cold material storage such as windows, siding and equipment. Hazardous materials will
not be stored on site. There will be approximately 10 modular homes on site that will serve as model homes.
The model homes will not leave the site until they are no longer selling, which takes approximately
three years. When the model homes are ready to be removed from the property, they will be dismantled
and removed. Therefore there will not be a constant traffic of modular homes being moved and removed
from the property. The plan commission is tasked with either approving or proving with conditions denying
or continuing this development plan.
based on the 11 criteria has follows. One, compatibility of development plan with surrounding land uses.
The components essential to modular home business, e.g. business offices, general retail, warehousing
and distribution are permitted in the I-1 zoning district, therefore is considered compatible with the
surrounding land uses, which are commercial and also light industrial.
In addition, the use will have little direct impact on adjacent properties. Two, compatibility of the
development plan with the recommendations of the comprehensive plan. Industrial one with commercial
uses encouraged along West State Road 46 in the comprehensive plan. Three, adequate provisions for internal
management of traffic. Traffic will enter and exit from West Flatwoods Road.
Inadequate traffic flow has been accommodated in the development plan. The fire department has approved
the radius of turns and curves on the parcel. One accessible parking space is required. Four, analysis
of the capacity of adjacent streets to ensure that adjacent streets can safely and efficiently accommodate
the additional traffic generated by the development. All traffic should come from West Flatwoods Road
There is no reason for concern has the modular home sales will not generate a substantial increase in
traffic. Five adequate provisions for public facilities and infrastructures and provision for extension
of infrastructure to adjacent develop, develop old properties. Infrastructure will be included on site
has required by fire utility and building codes.
Six, provisions for the allocation of land for streets, park schools, public and semi-public buildings,
homes, businesses, and industry as appropriate. West Flatwoods Road is maintained by the town of Ellisville,
so it will be maintained accordingly to the town's standards. Seven, adequate on-site management of
stormwater and erosion control.
Stormwater and erosion control will be managed in accordance with town and state regulations. Eight,
adequate provision for green space or landscaping. The petitioner has included landscaping in accordance
with the unified development ordinance. Nine, adequate provision for buffering to significantly reduce
the visual impact of dissimilar developments. Petitioner will provide buffering pursuant to the unified
development ordinance.
10 adequate protection of existing limestone structures. There are no limestone structures indicated
on the site. And 11 provision of pathways, trails, or sidewalks for all non-industrial developments.
The business will be located in an industrial zoning district. At this time, there's been no written
concerns submitted to the planning department about the development plans.
Plan Commission action can be in the form of approval, approval with conditions, denial, or to continue
the hearing. The Plan Commission has the final say in these matters. Staff recommendation, development
plan approval shall be predicated on the criteria I outlined earlier. If the Plan Commission does find
that the development plan is in agreement with those items, the Plan Commission shall approve the development plan.
Additionally, the plan commission may include any conditions they feel are necessary and relevant to
develop the property in an appropriate manner. It is staff opinion that the requirements of the development
plan section from the town of Ellsville code of ordinances have been reasonably achieved. Staff recommends
plan commission approved the development plan for 8650 West Flatwoods Road and petitioners representative
is present
This is where the site's located. It's part of the 90 property, former 90 property. And this is an outline
of the parcel. And then this is a close up of where the model homes will be located, the office and
the warehouse and the lane into it. Is that residential next to it? So on
we'll call it the east side of it, is County AGRR. And about where my mouse is, there's two residential
lots next to it. It's AGRR, and then there's a field, and then on the other side of that is part of
the 90 property, and then Hoosier Energy's solar farm. And then across the road,
is about the same zoning. There's commercial in there and in the residential catty corner. Do we need
to hear from the petitioner's representative? Sure. Do you have any questions for him or he can give
you a little overview. Hey, Jay Willis. Thanks for being here. I don't have a whole bunch to add. Denise
did a pretty good job of explaining it.
The model homes are just models, obviously nobody will be living in them. The office that's between
the warehouse and the models will be one of their models, but they'll utilize it as their office. For
the single family to the east of the property, we were proposing a 100 foot buffer yard that is gonna
be heavily landscaped. I think we're adding, it's a significant amount of trees that we're adding.
There'll be a 60 foot buffer on the north and west side A lot of that's going to be addressed with it
preserving the existing vegetation. There's some mature trees already out there Drainage for meeting
all the drainage requirements will be reducing the the runoff from this site it all goes to the southwest
corner and this northwest corner of the property are our developments only in the
Drainage area for the southwest corner And we're gonna we're gonna be constructing new roadside swale
all along Flatwoods to help with some of the existing standing water If you have any questions When
we had tech review we had two representatives from Beanbloss and Patrick's Berg water there because
they service the site and They assured us and I don't remember what they said the flow rate was but
they assured us that
there was no problem getting water to the site. And I just talked with the director before I came here
today and he has no concerns. Is 10.7 acres? Yes. How much of that are going to be used? Only about
two acres. How far will this development be for them homes, home sites per se? I don't know off the
top of my head.
Probably about 300 feet, 400 feet maybe. Okay, and the second thing is how many parking spaces? I only
see one that's designated here by the office. So there's an ADA parking spot on the east side of the
office, and then we have three striped spaces on the west side of the office, and then we have six in
the back in the warehouse scenario. That will be them.
employee parking. No one else. There's no one from the public here. Does anyone else want to speak?
Seeing none. Do we have a motion?
I'll make a motion that we approve. Where are we at here? The modular home. Case number PC 2613. Second.
Motion and second. It's approved and passed on PC 26-13. So she needs to take a roll call vote.
Steve Hale, yes.
Sack Michael? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Pat Weslowski? Yes. Thank you. And since there's no more new
business, do we need, can we get a planning update? So next meeting is May 7th, and at this time, I
have no new business before me. So if David decides to cancel me, they'll let you know there's nothing
that happens.
Privilege of the floor, or any non-agenda items? Seeing none, do we have any comments from the Planning
Commission? Oh yeah, I have. At my turn this morning, I was going by Arby's area, and lo and behold,
a car coming down from the development above, where the apartments are at, made a left-hand turn
coming out, and I'm here to tell you right now, I will not ever again vote yes for a development that
isn't done something about. And I went up through Mooresville this morning on 67, and they have, and
I don't know how to explain it, looks like four foot little pipes, plastic ones, yellow and orange,
to get off of the highway. And if they can do that on 67, the state of Indiana should make us do something
here on 46. I mean, they come through and they reduced our speed limit from 45 to 35, now 25, okay?
I would think that they would have some type of procedure
or somebody that's in the safety division of the state of Indiana to show us how we can eliminate what's
happening over there. I heard the end out was supposed to do something there, put in some type of barrier.
Have you heard that at all or? I can't speak to it. Somebody's gonna get hurt. And we're gonna be the
blame because we're gonna say it's okay to do it.
And I'm just here to say, and I hope it's, whoever's gonna develop whatever in that corner understands
that it can't be right in, right out anymore. Yeah, that was the only way NDOT would allow them to have
an entrance because they did try to get one that could go both ways and then NDOT said no, everybody
would have to go right.
and then make a turn and go back left. But I know nobody does it. My question is, I don't know if you
know, does the state of Indiana have a number of feet that the ride in and ride out, the concrete program
there? See, if they would put them yellow things in that concrete where you turn to go right,
then people wouldn't cross that. But we just sit here and say, okay, the state's gonna let it happen.
And I think we should start buckling down on it. That's my thought, so. That's it. I'm done talking.
No problem. Do we have any other comments, questions, concerns? Seeing none, we will be adjourned.