NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PROPOSED SPECIAL EXCEPTION

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals of the County of Porter, Indiana, will hold a public hearing on the 17th day of February, 2010, at 6:30 p.m., at the Porter County Administration Center, 155 Indiana Avenue, Valparaiso, Indiana, to consider the petition of Chicago SMSA LP dba Verizon Wireless, c/o Stu Harrison, Sr., Harrison Realty Consultants LTD., 42 W. Spruce St., Canton, Il, seeking a Special Exception under the Unified Development Ordinance, Section 10.02 Telecommunications Facility Review: Special Exceptions, to construct a 199-foot tall monopole telecommunications tower, with accompanying equipment, in an I-2, General Industrial District, to be located on the following described parcel of land:

All that part of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 22, Township 35 North, Range 6 West of the Second Principal Meridian, Porter County, Indiana, lying North of the right-of-way of the Pittsburgh Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and South of the South right-of-way line of State Road No. 130, as now constructed.

EXCEPTING THEREFROM: A parcel of land in the North 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 22, Township 35 North, Range 6 West of the Second Principal Meridian, Porter County, Indiana, lying between State Road No. 130, and the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and being more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the intersection of the North line of said Section 22, and the Northerly right-of-way line of said railroad, and running thence East along said North line of Section, a distance of 906.85 feet, more or less, to the Southerly right of way of State Road No. 130; thence Southeasterly along said Southerly right-of-way line, a distance of 211.23 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe; thence Southwesterly, a distance of 491.75 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe on the Northerly right-of-way line of said railroad, which is 748.43 feet East of the Point of Commencement; thence Northwesterly, a distance of 748.43 feet along said Northerly right-of-way line to the Point of Commencement.

GENERAL LOCATION: A parcel of land located at 2155 W. Lincolnway, in Center Township, Porter County, Indiana.

Written suggestions to said proposed zoning amendment may be filed with the Executive Director of the Porter County Plan Commission before such public hearing and/or verbal statements relating thereto will be heard at the above designated time and place. A copy of the file is available for public view at the Plan Commission office.

BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS

PORTER COUNTY, INDIANA

Raymond S. Joseph, Jr., Planner

(January 28, 2010)