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Planning board reviews zoning updates, UDO rewrite funding request and township‑merger petition
Summary
Members of the Clayton Planning and Zoning Advisory Board spent the meeting reviewing zoning text changes, a proposal to hire an AICP‑certified planner to rewrite the UDO and details of a citizen petition under Indiana Code 36‑1.5 that could reorganize town and township government.
Members of the Clayton Planning and Zoning Advisory Board spent the bulk of their meeting reviewing zoning code issues, a possible rewrite of the town’s Unified Development Ordinance and a citizen petition that could lead to a merger of the town and Liberty Township.
Board members discussed technical fixes to the town’s zoning text, including a proposal to prohibit concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) within the town’s agricultural zone. The board also examined a proposed consolidation of two residential districts, R‑1 and R‑4, noting those zones are similar in lot width and primary structure standards; one member said Clayton currently has no properties zoned R‑1 and only one property in R‑4, and recommended merging the two and then renumbering remaining residential districts as part of the cleanup.
The board reviewed its rules and procedures for the Planning…
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