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BZA approves variances for Maple City packaging expansion on Highway 39 North

3287612 · May 13, 2025
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On May 13 the La Porte City Board of Zoning Appeals approved a use variance and development-standard variances to allow Maple City Paccaje to expand a packaging facility on Highway 39 North, reducing required landscape setbacks and lowering parking requirements with city-imposed conditions.

The La Porte City Board of Zoning Appeals on May 13 approved variances to allow an expansion of a packaging facility on Highway 39 North now within city limits.

Attorney Dave Ambers, representing Maple City Paccaje, told the board the business moved to the community in early 2021 and now seeks to expand an existing powder-manufacturing operation. Ambers said the property was recently annexed by the city and that the petitioner requested a use variance to continue and expand manufacturing in an R-1B district, plus development-standard variances to reduce landscape setbacks and required parking.…

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