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Board approves reduced parking for Skij Enterprises multifamily project despite staff concerns about transit and road access
Summary
The Area Board approved a variance lowering required parking for a planned multifamily development on County Road 250 North; staff argued the site is premature for dense multifamily development because of narrow roads and limited transit and recommended denial, but the board approved the variance 5–1.
The Tippecanoe County Area Board of Zoning Appeals on March 26 approved a variance allowing Skij Enterprises to reduce required parking for a multifamily project on County Road 250 North in Wabash Township.
APC staff recommended denial, telling the board the site is a greenfield, located on a narrow county road without shoulders or sidewalks and with limited transit. "To have a dense multifamily development out in this fringe area is just irresponsible in the staff's opinion," Ryan (APC staff) said in the staff report.
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