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Michigan City board approves use variance for Grandma’s Attic self-storage on Michigan Boulevard
Summary
The Michigan City Board of Zoning Appeals voted 5-0 June 10 to approve a use variance allowing an indoor self-storage development dubbed Grandma’s Attic on a 22.5-acre parcel east of 4400 E. Michigan Blvd., subject to planning-department conditions including administrative subdivision, parking and site-plan requirements.
Michigan City Board of Zoning Appeals members voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve a use variance allowing Grandma’s Attic Self Storage to build indoor storage on a roughly 22.5-acre parcel east of 4400 East Michigan Boulevard and State Road 212.
The Board approved docket B-100-25 after the city planning department recommended approval subject to conditions, including an administrative subdivision to adjust internal lot lines, a site plan showing building and parking counts, and compliance with relevant zoning-ordinance parking and setback standards.
The applicant, James Diener, described plans to subdivide the parcel into three lots, preserve about 7.5 acres of wooded wetlands as conservation/marshland mitigation and sell that tract to a buyer who would use mitigation credits. Diener told the board the development would ultimately contain about 70,000 square feet of rentable space in three phases — roughly…
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