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Plan Commission recommends Racetrack convenience store and fuel station rezoning to City Council

Elkhart Plan Commission · July 7, 2025
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Summary

The Elkhart Plan Commission voted July 7 to recommend that the City Council approve a planned-unit development to allow a Racetrack convenience store with fuel services at County Road 17 and Middlebury Street.

The Elkhart Plan Commission voted July 7 to send a rezoning and planned-unit development request from Racetrack Incorporated to the City Council with a "due pass" recommendation.

The proposal would establish a Racetrack convenience store with fuel services on about 3.38 acres at the southwest corner of County Road 17 and Middlebury Street, on land formerly part of the Bullard Farm. The petitioner asked for the site to be developed to B-3 (Service Business) standards and requested two freestanding signs larger than the standard allowance: a 90-square-foot, 10-foot-high sign along County Road 17 and a 66-square-foot, 6-foot-high sign along Middlebury Street. Eric (planning staff) told…

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