The Crown Point City Planning Commission voted to approve petition 25-13 to combine Lots 7 and 8 in Crown East Phase 2, allowing Dynadome Retractable Structures to expand its facility at 11025 Delaware Parkway.

The petition, presented by the property representative, sought primary plat approval to re-subdivide the two lots into one so the business could add an addition and reduce outdoor storage that staff said was overflowing into the parking area. Planning staff recommended approval and noted the property had previously received a variance from development standards to encroach past the building line to allow additional parking.

"Combining lots, 107, 108, in Crown East. We're trying to, expand our, cold storage to the southeast of the building, which will help us take material that continues to overflow into our parking lot currently, and clean up the, the look outside the building and in the park," the petitioner said.

Planning staff told the commission that the variance had been approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals on 08/24/2015 and that while some storage violations currently exist the proposed addition would alleviate those. Staff confirmed all notices were sent by certified mail and that no letters of objection or support had been received.

Commission members asked procedural and technical questions: whether sanitary sewer or septic systems were present (staff said only one applies), the correct parking requirement (a typo in the packet was corrected from an impossible "709" to 18 required spaces), and how the expanded building would be accessed (the addition will attach to the southeast corner of the existing Lot 7 and use the current building access). The petitioner confirmed the addition will use the Dynadome Retractable Structure system.

The commission opened and then closed a public hearing with no speakers, and a motion to approve petition 25-13 with staff comments (and an explicit request to include all required certificates) passed on a roll-call vote. The petitioner was told to work with staff to complete missing certificates before recording the plat and to return for secondary approval as required.

The approval is a primary-plat action; staff and the petitioner must complete outstanding certificates and submittals before the plat can be recorded and the secondary/recording step completed.