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Whitestown board approves Kroger fuel center special exception and development variances
Summary
The Whitestown Board of Planning Appeals approved a special exception allowing a Kroger fueling center at 6380 Center Drive and three related variances for canopy signage, canopy height and canopy footprint/size, with one variance passing 3–2 on a condition to darken digital pricing outside business hours.
The Whitestown Board of Planning Appeals on March 6 approved a special exception and three development-standard variances allowing a Kroger fueling center at 6380 Center Drive, voting 5–0 on the special exception and two of the variances and 3–2 on a variance for canopy signage that included a condition to disable digital pricing during nonbusiness hours.
Staff told the board the site is 1.24 acres in the General Business (GB) district and cited a 2018 BZA special-exception case that converted the parcel from a gas station to a Big O Tires facility. Planning staff said the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) allows a “service station, local” in GB by special exception (UDO 11.13) and recommended approval after concluding the applicant met the required findings.
Anne McBride, agent for Kroger, told the board Kroger will demolish the existing vacant building and build a fuel center on a separate parcel north of a proposed 18,337-square-foot Kroger Marketplace in adjacent Zionsville. "The proposal that is before this board . . . is a $35,000,000…
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