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Plan Commission recommends rezoning three Porter County parcels for mitigation-bank wetland restoration
Summary
The commission forwarded a favorable recommendation to county commissioners for three rezonings (ZO-2026-9/10/11) to allow a developer’s mitigation banking project — a permanent conservation easement and wetland restoration intended to produce mitigation credits regulated by the Army Corps and state agencies.
The Porter County Plan Commission voted to forward a favorable recommendation to the county commissioners for three rezoning petitions (ZO-2026-9, ZO-2026-10 and ZO-2026-11) to change designated parcels from Rural Residential to Greenway District to permit a mitigation-bank wetland restoration project.
Lyndon Graber, representing the developer identified in the hearing as Nurian/Nutrien West, described mitigation banking as a regulated program in which lands are restored to wetlands or stream habitat, placed under permanent conservation easement, and then used to sell mitigation credits to parties that impact similar aquatic resources elsewhere. Graber said the project has received necessary federal and state permitting reviews,…
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