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Hendricks Regional Health rezoning moves forward in county; Clayton council discusses annexation limits
Summary
Hendricks Regional Health sought a favorable county planning commission recommendation to rezone 16 acres for an immediate care center; Clayton officials discussed that the parcels are noncontiguous to town limits and therefore cannot be annexed without a landowner consolidating parcels or annexing each parcel individually under state law.
Hendricks Regional Health’s proposed immediate-care center and related rezoning received a favorable recommendation from the Hendricks County Plan Commission, and Clayton officials discussed limits on the town’s ability to annex the property.
At the council meeting a participant identified as John said Hendricks County had recommended rezoning 16 acres to general business for the planned development. "I went to the Hendricks County Plan Commission meeting on Tuesday evening, where they gave a favorable recommendation to rezone this to general business for HRH's planned build and development of this 16 acres," the speaker said. John said representatives of Hendricks Regional Health, including the CEO and the health system’s lawyer, attended the county meeting.
Council members noted a statutory requirement that annexation parcels be contiguous to the town’s corporate limits. The council discussed that parcels between the town and the proposed site are owned by the same private landowner and that the owner could request the county dissolve parcel lines so that the town could annex the entire area in one contiguous action—but as the law stands now the town would have to annex each parcel individually until the property meets contiguity requirements. "We can't annex that property because it's too—it's not connected to kind of Clayton," a council speaker said.
Officials also noted that the county zoning decision will go to the Hendricks County commissioners for final action; speakers referenced a county commissioners hearing scheduled for June 24. No town-level annexation vote or agreement was taken at the meeting. Council members discussed sewer availability and the town’s wastewater treatment plant being about 6,000 feet from the site and downhill, but said annexation remains constrained by contiguity rules.
The council requested to monitor the county’s process and to continue discussions with the landowner and Hendricks Regional Health about sewer service and any future annexation steps.
