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LaPorte County Channel 97. Next up is the
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LaPorte County Planning Commission meeting on September 22nd. You
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Okay, we declare
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this meeting
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open on September 22,
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2026. Please
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stand for the
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Pledge of
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Allegiance.
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symbolizes, one
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nation under God,
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indivisible, with
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liberty and
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justice for
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all.
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Thank you. Roll
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call,
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please.
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John Matushak?
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Present.
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Joseph Dochalski?
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No.
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Steve Holyfield?
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Present.
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John Carr? Rita Beatty?
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Present.
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Anthony Os?
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Present.
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Andrew Kapalczyk?
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Present.
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Jimmy Pressel?
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Present.
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Eric Poynton?
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Here.
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Okay, thank you. We have
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your quorum.
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Thank you.
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May I make a
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motion to
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approve the agenda
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for this evening?
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I will make a motion
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to approve the
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agenda.
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Second.
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Everyone who is "in favor"
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confirms this with
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the words "I do." "I". "Is
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anyone against it?" What about
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approving
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the minutes of this or
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last month's
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meeting...We do
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n't have them, do we?
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No, we don't have it.
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We received it by
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email. Did
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you guys get
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it? Good. Good.
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Let's make
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a motion to
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approve the
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minutes as
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presented in the
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email.
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Is there a second offer?
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Second proposal.
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Thank you. Everyone who is "in favor"
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confirms this with
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the words "I do." "Is
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anyone against it?"
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The proposal is accepted.
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Okay, let's move on
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. We have no petitions
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for this evening, but
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we do have some new
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cases that need
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updating. Uh, a slightly
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different, important, uh,
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unique situation
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here. So, I will turn
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this over to our
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building commissioner and/or
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attorney, or both.
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Thank you, Madam President
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. This is related to
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correspondence we
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received, uh, from a
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lawyer regarding, uh, the
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appeals
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court decision. Uh, I sent
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this to all of you so you
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could have a chance to
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read it.
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initially
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went to me, our
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legal counsel, and the
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district attorney. Um,
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and then the correspondence back and
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forth, um, the attorney
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indicated that, um,
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she would like to
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appear before the
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planning commission or the BZA to
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explain this, um, and
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provide us with
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information. Um, I don't
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think she'll
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be here tonight
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because we
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don't have the Zoom capability,
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um, but you all
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received
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the correspondence, um,
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which will be available, um,
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in our office as, um, a
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public record, as well
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as the
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appellate court decision. And,
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um, that's all I have.
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Perhaps our lawyer
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has something to add.
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So, we see that
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she is not present
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tonight,
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so we will continue with
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the lawyer tonight
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.
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Madam President,
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good evening. Hmm, you're
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right. This is a somewhat
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unique situation.
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Um, the speaker or
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questioner is
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missing here. Hmm, it doesn't
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appear. And I won't
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make a
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presentation on her
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behalf because I don't know
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what the
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presentation should be like. We were
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provided, or, excuse me, the
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Planning Commission
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was provided, and the
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building commissioner's office was provided with
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a copy of the
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appellate court decision, um
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, which I reviewed. And
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again, the signature
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on the
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appellate court decision
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that I received or that
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we received is
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in the case of Kenneth and
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Laura Nerenberg as
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plaintiff-appellants
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against Stacey Royer as
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defendant-
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appellant. This is from an
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appeal case
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that was heard, or,
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excuse me, the LaPorte County Trial Court
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in Superior Court
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Number Two in case
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number 46 D 02-2011-CT-1933.
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The conclusion provided, um,
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to the building commissioner's office
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indicates that
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this is the conclusion.
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However, there is some
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information that
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indicates that this is a
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memorandum conclusion
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or a
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memorandum decision. I couldn't
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tell what was
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true and what wasn't. Therefore, I
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simply proceed from what has
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been
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presented. And again
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, I'm not making a
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presentation about this
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. Um, frankly
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, there
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are errors in this conclusion.
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Um, for example,
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the property that is the
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subject of this
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appeal is listed by the
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appellate court as
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zoned residential.
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It is not zoned
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residential. It is
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zoned
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rural. And I've
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highlighted at least
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six questions that
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I have, uh,
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about this decision. And
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again, I don't
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know what exactly is meant
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by this
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decision or how it should
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be interpreted
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as related to the
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joint
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zoning ordinance. However, there
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are certain statements in the opinion
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that
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raise certain
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questions about
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the inclusiveness or
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exclusivity of the
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LaPorte County Joint Zoning Ordinance. Whereas,
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perhaps, the position will be taken
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that if a
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specific
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use is not
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permitted under the JZO,
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then it is prohibited. I
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can't believe that
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was the intent of the JZO
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or the wording
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contained in the JZO
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that each
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permitted
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use had to
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be specifically
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listed, because
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you would have a joint
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zoning ordinance the size of
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five phone books
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if anyone else was
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using a
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phone book. Um
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, so again, I do
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n't know what the asker
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was trying to do with
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this. We facilitated,
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sorry, Mike's office
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facilitated the inclusion of her
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request on the
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agenda. She is not here.
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Uh, there's no lawyer here to
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dissect any
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wording that
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they think needs to be
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dissected, as it
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relates to the LaPorte
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County Joint Zoning Ordinance
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, but given
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that, um, certainly
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it raises the
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possibility of
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some
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issues in the future
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that could potentially be
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addressed by this body
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. But again, I'm
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not going to make
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any presentation
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or offer a
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legal opinion on
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anything when there's
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nothing before the board
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on which to
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offer a
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legal opinion. So,
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here's where we are
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.
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Good. Well, as we
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said, this was a
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unique situation,
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something that I have
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n't seen before, our
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board has not seen before, so it's
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not something we're usually
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used to looking at.
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So at this point I
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don't know if there's
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any discussion needed on
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this, um,
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unless someone
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wants to say something
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outside the council; otherwise we'll
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just, um,
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listen and
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do our
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due diligence for
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tonight and
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move on to
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old business.
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If any of you have
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questions for me or
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legal counsel, I can
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answer them
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now. Otherwise
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, I would say
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we could move
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to where we have two
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standing committees,
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so maybe we could
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get
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updates from those
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committees from the rest of the
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board. The
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solar energy committee
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met last
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week or so
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. We discussed
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a few issues, and Matt
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Reardon from
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Economic
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Development was also
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involved in this.
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He was present at
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this. He
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suggested that
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since we can't
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kick these "
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baggage guys" out of
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town, then, um, let's
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set a limit of
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megawatts per acre, rather than
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just an overall
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limit, because, he
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said, they'll
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find a way around it
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. So you
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can say you
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can
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only use a
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certain number of
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megawatts per acre. That's
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all, that's all. And then, um,
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another proposal
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that he had to make
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to ensure
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implementation, regarding
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the cost of implementation,
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um, discussing a fee
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for each panel or
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structure on an annual
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basis. So, in that
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way, these guys are
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someone that you can
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investigate,
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make sure they're
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following the rules
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and their contract,
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make sure they're
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following it, because
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they're going to have
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weed control, they're going to have
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fences
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that they're going to have to take
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care of. They
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will have to
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take care of
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pollinators, which
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they claim
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can very quickly
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turn into
[8:25]
noxious weeds.
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So, that's basically all
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we discussed. Uh
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, Tony, you were there. Do
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you have anything? Eric,
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were you there? Any other things
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? I don't have one
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. I think we
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mentioned maybe
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looking at whether
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we want to have any
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insurance requirements.
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Good.
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You know, if any of
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them were to express their
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opinion, I think it
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would require
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a longer
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discussion with a
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lawyer about the
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implications and how
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it works. But
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at least it was
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broken.
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And that was basically
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in case there
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was a fire that
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threatened to
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spread out of control or something
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like that.
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Just in general,
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just the fact that we
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discussed it. I
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know this issue
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was raised during a
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previous
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discussion on BZA, where there
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was a question about whether
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they had environmental
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insurance. So, I
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think it's just
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worth it...That was what
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we were talking about. So...
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Okay. Something else?
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Hmm. Do we have any
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updates from the other
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committee?
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Data center?
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We haven't met yet
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, and until someone comes up with a
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proposed plan,
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I mean, we don't
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know what we're going to have to
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change
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or make changes to. So...
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Yeah, I think the only
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reason we
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wanted to, and we should probably
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consider
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getting
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together, is because, I
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think, we wanted to
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look at how the
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data center works and tie that into
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, um, the changes that
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were made for the
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overlay district
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and the area, just
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to make sure that
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we're not creating
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some confusion or
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conflict between those
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two provisions.
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So, I think it would be worth at least
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considering these two.
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Good. Nothing else is
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connected. Good.
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Any other reports?
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So, in addition to that, um,
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a year ago, maybe
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longer, we started
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working on our
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new comprehensive
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county plan. Um,
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we had
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, uh, consultants working on this. Um
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, it was paid for by a
[10:20]
grant. Um, the
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county planner
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was heavily
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involved in this.
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Um, he led it perfectly
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and organized everything
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. Um, several members of
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this, uh, commission
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were also on this
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committee. We
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met several
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times. Um, there were
[10:36]
several
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public workshops held
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at various locations throughout the
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county. Um,
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literature was published to
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try to get
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as much
[10:45]
public opinion on
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this issue as possible, uh. Um,
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we even added, uh,
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Tony and, uh,
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after Harold, uh,
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resigned from the
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board. But, uh,
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usually these things
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are updated every 15-20
[10:59]
years in the
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municipality.
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It's time to make
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ours. We are getting ready. We are
[11:04]
at the end, and we
[11:05]
are preparing to officially
[11:06]
accept it. And
[11:09]
usually after that,
[11:10]
there is a review of
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our
[11:13]
zoning ordinance and its
[11:14]
update. And I think
[11:21]
there was some
[11:22]
discussion within this commission, as well as at the BZA level, of
[11:23]
specific things that
[11:24]
could be updated,
[11:27]
wording adjusted, you know,
[11:28]
things like that. We
[11:31]
talked about
[11:32]
shipping
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containers, chickens, and
[11:34]
animals. Tony raised
[11:36]
some interesting
[11:37]
points. So, I think the
[11:42]
entire JZO needs a
[11:43]
review. And, um,
[11:49]
instead of
[11:51]
breaking it up into
[11:52]
pieces with
[11:52]
amendments here,
[11:53]
amendments there,
[11:54]
as time
[11:55]
permits, we could
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, um, propose
[11:58]
changes. And then, um,
[12:03]
when we're ready
[12:05]
, maybe in the first
[12:06]
quarter of next
[12:07]
year or some
[12:08]
other time, we
[12:09]
could schedule a
[12:10]
public hearing,
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which is required
[12:13]
by law, get
[12:14]
public feedback, um,
[12:15]
maybe have a few
[12:17]
projects, eventually
[12:18]
do something that we're
[12:19]
happy with, and eventually
[12:20]
adopt a new
[12:22]
zoning ordinance.
[12:23]
So, you're just
[12:24]
looking at
[12:24]
just
[12:25]
tweaking a few
[12:26]
things here and there. I
[12:27]
mean, it's been a
[12:28]
long time since the
[12:29]
update. And
[12:30]
with the new, um,
[12:31]
comprehensive, plan...
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That's what you're looking at
[12:35]
...
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in 2016...
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16, so that's 10 years.
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So,
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yes, yes, a comprehensive
[12:42]
plan, um, even
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older...
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That's right...
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than JZO. And then our JZO,
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10 years old, I would say the
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time has come.
[12:51]
There are some things you have
[12:53]
seen in your office
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that we should
[12:55]
consider.
[12:58]
Yes, I have various
[12:59]
things that I found that
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I would like to
[13:02]
fix. One of them is
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sand mining and
[13:07]
quarrying, and the
[13:08]
wording is as follows. But I
[13:12]
think several
[13:13]
members of this board have
[13:14]
also raised
[13:15]
other issues. You know,
[13:16]
just today Tony
[13:18]
found a link to the
[13:19]
maps and information that
[13:22]
our JCO is referring to, these are broken
[13:23]
links. The expiration date
[13:25]
has expired. Nothing
[13:26]
happens when you
[13:27]
open them.
[13:31]
Eric and I talked about
[13:32]
this. We get so
[13:34]
many cases regarding
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shipping
[13:36]
containers at BZA. Um,
[13:40]
this is something that could be
[13:42]
addressed at the
[13:43]
planning commission level
[13:44]
to reduce the
[13:45]
burden on the BZA.
[13:48]
Eric, do you have anything
[13:50]
you want to add on
[13:51]
this?
[13:52]
I mean, as far as
[13:54]
this is concerned, I think if, you
[13:55]
know, the way you
[13:56]
do some other
[13:57]
things, if you
[13:58]
sign it with
[13:59]
your neighbors or
[14:00]
send it, they
[14:01]
might object.
[14:03]
You know, it needs to be
[14:04]
painted just like
[14:05]
, you know, a house or
[14:06]
structures or
[14:07]
whatever. This falls
[14:08]
under the same existing
[14:09]
structure. You cannot
[14:11]
have more than a certain
[14:12]
number of existing
[14:13]
structures. It still has to
[14:14]
comply with
[14:15]
all the regulations, and as long as
[14:16]
you guys say
[14:17]
they can
[14:18]
comply with the regulations
[14:19]
, we won't have to
[14:19]
see one or two
[14:20]
sea containers
[14:21]
every month on the BZA.
[14:22]
For example, a section of
[14:23]
auxiliary buildings.
[14:25]
Right. We could
[14:26]
develop a standard for,
[14:27]
you know, proper
[14:29]
installation, um,
[14:30]
foundation supports,
[14:31]
anchoring, um,
[14:32]
placement. You're not
[14:33]
going to put
[14:35]
it in front of your
[14:36]
house on the road. Both do
[14:37]
not match
[14:38]
. So, it has to be,
[14:40]
you know, we'll
[14:40]
have to develop
[14:43]
criteria. Would it be
[14:44]
...Would it be time
[14:45]
to look into...We're
[14:46]
getting a lot of
[14:47]
complaints and I'm forwarding
[14:48]
them to you guys regarding
[14:49]
defective
[14:50]
cars. Would
[14:51]
this be something we could
[14:53]
include in the JZO? But
[14:54]
again, as we
[14:55]
said this
[14:56]
afternoon, we will have to
[14:58]
find the strength to
[14:59]
do it. And that
[15:00]
would require fines
[15:01]
or something like that,
[15:02]
even if you
[15:03]
have to, even
[15:04]
if you have to
[15:05]
allocate enough
[15:06]
money to cover
[15:08]
it, to have someone in your
[15:09]
department deal with it.
[15:11]
Yes. Hmm, one of the
[15:14]
problems we have
[15:15]
with
[15:16]
code enforcement, or
[15:17]
lack thereof, is
[15:18]
that the regulation is
[15:20]
old, uh, for example,
[15:21]
and the legal framework of
[15:22]
the departments that have the
[15:23]
authority to
[15:24]
enforce it is very
[15:25]
broad.
[15:28]
For example, you have a
[15:30]
noxious weed council
[15:31]
that hasn't met in
[15:34]
over a decade,
[15:35]
maybe more than a
[15:36]
decade.
[15:38]
Wasn't that part of the
[15:40]
village board of trustees?
[15:41]
Yes, yes, the caretakers
[15:42]
have unkempt
[15:43]
grass. So,
[15:46]
there are certain cases that
[15:47]
I will send
[15:48]
letters about for any
[15:49]
reason, any
[15:51]
complaint that comes in,
[15:52]
because we have, you know
[15:53]
, let's say, a 40% success rate in
[15:55]
mitigating these
[15:56]
consequences without, uh,
[15:57]
sending a
[15:58]
punisher on them or,
[15:59]
you know, filing
[16:01]
lawsuits and so on.
[16:03]
You should look
[16:04]
at the results.
[16:05]
Uh,
[16:06]
yeah, I'm not against it,
[16:08]
but when it comes to
[16:09]
having the legal
[16:11]
right to file
[16:12]
cases, there could be
[16:13]
more clearly defined
[16:14]
wording as to what
[16:16]
the sheriff will do, what the health department will do
[16:19]
, what the
[16:20]
building
[16:21]
department will do, what the
[16:22]
trustee's office will do, uh, what that,
[16:24]
you know, point is. There are
[16:26]
many different
[16:27]
law enforcement
[16:28]
agencies, but a clearer
[16:29]
regulation with
[16:33]
updated
[16:33]
wording would be
[16:35]
appropriate.
[16:36]
Well, when everyone
[16:37]
hands over
[16:37]
authority to the
[16:38]
next person, we
[16:39]
run into so
[16:40]
much of this that
[16:41]
it goes back to the
[16:42]
building commission.
[16:44]
So...Yes,
[16:47]
we are indeed
[16:48]
universal and
[16:49]
statewide...I
[16:50]
know, like DHS and the
[16:51]
fire marshal's office, there are
[16:53]
some state
[16:54]
departments where, uh, they have
[16:55]
fewer people,
[16:56]
they've
[16:57]
reorganized, and
[16:58]
more and more is
[16:59]
being devolved to local
[17:01]
municipalities. Um,
[17:05]
and when that happens
[17:07]
, you just
[17:07]
go to people
[17:09]
who already have a full
[17:10]
plate and tell them,
[17:11]
"Well, now you have this
[17:13]
duty, and this
[17:15]
duty." No
[17:16]
protocols, no
[17:17]
standard
[17:18]
operating procedures
[17:19]
, no resources. It
[17:21]
makes life difficult for all of
[17:22]
them, so...
[17:23]
Right.
[17:24]
Mandates without
[17:24]
funding.
[17:25]
Hmm. Good. Okay, so
[17:30]
we have a lot to
[17:31]
look forward to
[17:32]
next year, it looks like
[17:33]
...
[17:34]
That's when you guys
[17:35]
moved to 2 acres, and
[17:37]
then we moved away from
[17:38]
that because there
[17:39]
are a lot of places in the county
[17:40]
. They have a yard in the front
[17:42]
that they mow, and
[17:43]
then you have an acre and a half in
[17:44]
the back that's
[17:45]
weeds, or you have
[17:46]
people who have let a
[17:48]
couple of ponies out and they
[17:49]
eat on the bare ground.
[17:50]
And didn't we
[17:51]
adjust that
[17:52]
a few years ago
[17:53]
when they had to
[17:54]
have at least
[17:55]
6 acres for horses?
[17:56]
We switched to three.
[17:58]
Now three, okay. So,
[17:59]
shall we
[18:00]
consider this? Even 3
[18:01]
acres, meaning one horse,
[18:03]
3 acres
[18:04]
will not be too much for them.
[18:06]
I think all this
[18:07]
terminology that
[18:08]
applies to animals,
[18:09]
from chickens to horses and
[18:11]
whatever, should be
[18:12]
reviewed,
[18:13]
discussed,
[18:13]
different
[18:14]
points of view taken into account, and then
[18:20]
come to a consensus and
[18:21]
vote.
[18:24]
That's how we ended up
[18:25]
creating it, because when we were
[18:26]
doing it originally,
[18:27]
we didn't have anything that
[18:28]
could be
[18:29]
considered in the
[18:29]
animal ordinance.
[18:31]
So we took other
[18:32]
counties that were
[18:33]
near us, what they
[18:35]
had, because some of
[18:36]
them have 20 acres and
[18:37]
so on. So we
[18:38]
tried to
[18:39]
compromise and chose
[18:40]
three acres over four
[18:42]
acres to try to
[18:43]
accommodate the needs of
[18:44]
some families who
[18:45]
were looking for four acres.
[18:47]
So we compressed it.
[18:50]
And if we see
[18:51]
problems with that, it doesn't
[18:52]
necessarily mean
[18:53]
we need to
[18:54]
change the area, but we
[18:56]
could add
[18:57]
criteria to
[18:57]
address the problems
[18:59]
that we saw. And I
[19:00]
think the other thing
[19:02]
you violated is the
[19:03]
two acres that were
[19:04]
reduced to one
[19:05]
acre.
[19:06]
Right.
[19:07]
This happened to me,
[19:08]
but, um, I think I...I
[19:10]
know about it. I think it
[19:12]
was in 2012,
[19:13]
Jacob.
[19:14]
Just for
[19:15]
residential property. Good.
[19:16]
It used to be two
[19:17]
acres, but now we've
[19:18]
moved to one acre
[19:20]
with 200 feet of frontage.
[19:21]
That's what we
[19:21]
switched to when we
[19:22]
did this.
[19:25]
And we get a lot of
[19:27]
those at BZA regarding
[19:28]
deviations,
[19:29]
facade reduction. Good.
[19:35]
Okay, is there
[19:37]
any more old stuff?
[19:41]
Good. A
[19:42]
transfer proposal?
[19:45]
Second.
[19:46]
Everyone who is "in favor"?
[19:47]
Yes.
[19:49]
Thank you all for
[19:50]
being here.