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Commissioners approve NIPSCO New Paris operations center with conditions on buffering and landscaping
Summary
The Elkhart County commissioners approved a DPUD for a NIPSCO New Paris local operations center after public hearings and negotiations over screening, berms and traffic access; commissioners conditioned approval on specified berm and landscaping requirements around adjacent residential properties.
Elkhart County commissioners on Oct. 20 approved a development plan unit district (DPUD) and primary site plan for a proposed NIPSCO New Paris local operations center on Fernbrook Road, with conditions requiring expanded berming and landscaping along property lines adjacent to nearby residences.
NIPSCO representatives Tanya Stanley and Jack Halls described the project as an operations center similar in use to a county highway facility, with an office/warehouse building, fleet maintenance and covered vehicle garages, outside material storage for poles and pipe, and pull-through parking to support emergency response. Stanley said the company expects the site to support roughly 150 employees countywide and would not build generation/substation infrastructure at the location.
Site designers said Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) staff discouraged access from State Road 15 and that INDOT intends to signalize the intersection of County Road 142 and State Road 15 in 2027; the DPUD plan places major…
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