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Developers and staff spar over conditions for zoning near State Road 2; area plan recommended commitments
Summary
A petition to rezone 40 acres at State Road 2 and Strawberry prompted lengthy debate. Area-plan staff recommended approval with written commitments requiring final interchange design and utility connections before commercial operation; developers argued those conditions unfairly single them out compared with larger nearby projects.
A contested rezoning petition for roughly 40 acres at State Road 2 and Strawberry drew more than an hour of discussion during the Nov. 24 St. Joseph County committee meeting, with county planning staff recommending approval while attaching two written commitments and the developer asking for those conditions to be relaxed.
Sean Klein of the Area Plan Commission told the committee the proposal to rezone the parcel from agricultural to C commercial came with staff'recommended conditions: commercial development should not occur until (1) the interchange design for State Road 2/Strawberry is finalized, and (2) sewer and water services are available. Klein said the changes align the county with state and federal…
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