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Residents urge commissioners to honor comprehensive plan and increase transparency on large rezoning proposals
Summary
Residents at the May 13 meeting urged elected officials to respect the county comprehensive plan's intensive agriculture designation for roughly 1,050–1,057 acres and called for more open meetings and scrutiny of dewatering permits and executive sessions tied to industrial development.
Several residents used the public-comment period at the May 13 St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners meeting to urge commissioners and county council members to respect the county comprehensive plan and to increase transparency around recent development activity.
Dan Caruso of New Carlisle addressed commissioners about county council Bill 42-25, a first-reading rezoning he said would affect about "a thousand and approximately 50 acres" north of U.S. 20. Caruso asked…
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