NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PROPOSED USE VARIANCE

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals of the County of Porter, Indiana, will hold a public hearing on the 16th of March, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in the Porter County Administration Center, 155 Indiana Avenue, Suite 205, Valparaiso, Indiana, to consider the petition of Michael Tisma, 2503 William Drive, Valparaiso, seeking a Use Variance from the Unified Development Ordinance: Section 2.11, requesting a Use Variance to allow a Winery and other commercial activities in a RR, Rural Residential District, to be located on the following described parcel of land:

EXHIBIT “A”

Order No. 520080410

Part of the fractional North Half of Section 5, Township 35 North, Range 5 West of the Second Principal Meridian, in Porter County, Indiana, described as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner thereof; thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West 653.32 feet, along the East line of said section; thence North 89 degrees 16 minutes 38 seconds West 716.96 feet, along a line parallel with the East-West centerline of said section, to a point on a line 1930.90 feet East of and parallel with the North-South centerline of Section 5; thence North 00 degrees 00 minutes 03 seconds East 663.87 feet, along said North-South parallel line, to the North line of said Section 5; thence South 88 degrees 26 minutes 04 seconds East 717.16 feet to the point of beginning.

Subject to roads, highways, ditches, drains, easements, covenants and restrictions contained in all documents of record; all laws, ordinances and governmental regulations including building and zoning; any state of facts that an accurate survey might disclose; and real estate taxes and assessments for 2010 payable in 2011 together with delinquency and penalty, if any, and real estate taxes and assessments due and payable thereafter which the grantee herein assumes and agrees to pay.

GENERAL LOCATION: A parcel of land located at 294 East 600 North in Washington Township, Porter County, Indiana.

Written suggestions to said proposed Use Variance 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

(February 23, 2011)