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Staff present draft unified development ordinance to Gary Common Council committee
Summary
City planning staff presented a draft unified development ordinance to the Gary Common Council's Planning & Development Committee, proposing a simplified R1'R4 residential scale, new commercial and industrial categories, several overlay districts, and a public mapping process.
City planning staff presented a draft unified development ordinance to the Gary Common Council's Planning & Development Committee, describing a full replacement of the city's existing zoning code and the start of a map-update and public outreach process.
The draft, introduced by Corey Sharp and Dr. Sylvia Martin, would replace multiple legacy zoning chapters with a single, table-formatted code that reorganizes residential zones from R1 to R4, creates clearer business categories (B1'B4), preserves a three-tier industrial structure (M1'M3) and adds new specialty districts such as entertainment and "destination." "This is a complete replacement of our existing, zoning ordinances," Corey Sharp said. "At the core, this update is about creating consistency," Dr. Sylvia Martin added.
Why it matters: staff said the rewrite aims to reduce long-standing ambiguity in the 1991 code, make standards easier to apply, and align zoning with…
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