Sellersburg BZA approves variances to split seven duplex lots into 14 owner-occupied lots at Saint Joe Place

The Town of Sellersburg Board of Zoning Appeals on Thursday approved development-standard variances that will allow Thompson Collective LLC to replat an existing duplex development in the Saint Joe Place subdivision into 14 individually owned lots.

The board found that the three statutory criteria in Indiana Code 36-7-4-918.5 were met and approved variances for lot width and lot area to permit the split of seven existing two-family buildings into 14 attached single-family lots. The petition, filed under agenda item 2025-09-DV-07 by Jason Copperway on behalf of Thompson Collective LLC, covers property identified in the record at 6659 Atkins Road, Floyd Knobs.

Jake Vissing, an attorney with the law firm Frost Brown Todd representing the petitioner, described the plan as a replat that draws property lines down the party wall so each attached unit can be sold to owner-occupants rather than held in common ownership. Vissing said the use and character of the property would not change — the same number of dwelling units would remain on-site — but legal ownership and tax…