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Plan Commission recommends annexing Prairie Street Cemetery and adjacent land into Elkhart

6403154 · October 22, 2025
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The Elkhart City Plan Commission voted to recommend that the Common Council annex about 25.85 acres that include the Prairie Street Cemetery into the city limits; staff said the property is tax-exempt and the annexation will not change local tax rates.

The Elkhart City Plan Commission voted to recommend that the Common Council annex roughly 25.85 acres containing the Prairie Street Cemetery and adjacent vacant land for future cemetery expansion.

City planning staff told the commission the annexation petition, filed by the City of Elkhart Board of Public Works, meets Indiana Code contiguity requirements and other statutory tests and would not change the tax rate for other taxing units because…

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