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BZA approves reduced perimeter landscaping for Brownsburg High School athletics project

5733900 · September 8, 2025
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Summary

The Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance allowing a lower-intensity landscape buffer at Brownsburg High School’s East Athletics complex, accepting a narrower planting strip in exchange for perimeter fencing and other site controls.

The Town of Brownsburg Board of Zoning Appeals on Sept. 8 approved a development standards variance for 1005 S. Odell Street (BZA case BZDV 25-3) that allows a low-intensity landscape buffer around the high school’s East Athletics complex instead of the moderate buffer specified in the Unified Development Ordinance.

Staff presented the request as a development-standards variance under the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and reviewed the three required findings: that the variance would not be injurious to public health, safety or welfare; that neighboring property values would not be substantially affected; and that strict application of the UDO would result in practical difficulties. Ethan (staff member) told the board the site is institutional (IS) zoning,…

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