NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PROPOSED VARIANCES

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals of the County of Porter, Indiana, will hold a public hearing on the 1st of September, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the Porter County Administration Center, 155 Indiana Avenue, Suite 205, Valparaiso, Indiana, to consider the petition of Icarus Industrial Painting & Contracting Co. Inc., c/o Todd A. Leeth, Hoeppner Wagner & Evans LLP, 103 E. Lincolnway, Valparaiso, seeking the following Variance requests from the Unified Development Ordinance: Section 3.06 (C) (2) ARO: Architectural Design Standards; Section 3.06 (I) (b) Outdoor Storage Standards; Section 5.32 OS-O2 Outdoor Storage, Prohibited; Section 9.04 (B) Nonconforming Structures, Enlarged or Altered; Section 7.25 PN-03 Pedestrian Network Standards, Commercial & Industrial; Section 7.27 PL-02 perimeter Landscaping Standards, Commercial & Industrial; Section 5.22 LA-01 Landscaping, General; Section 7.28 SM-01 Storm Water Standards; General, (G) (3) Runoff; Section ST-01, Street Trees Standards; located on the following described parcel:

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

A part of Blocks 3, 18, 19 and 24, and portions of the vacated streets and alleys, in Emmetsburg, as per plat thereof recorded in Miscellaneous Record “B”, page 242, in the Office of the Recorder of Porter County, Indiana, a subdivision of the Northwest Quarter of Section 23, Township 35 North, Range 6 West of the Second Principal Meridian, in Center Township, Porter County, Indiana, being more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the Southwest corner of Lot 1, in Amstutz Subdivision, as per plat thereof recorded in Miscellaneous Record 16, page 114, in said Office of the County Recorder, said corner being the intersection of the centerline of the vacated O’Connor Street in said Emmetsburg Subdivision, and the Northerly right-of-way line of State Highway No. 130, as shown on the Plan and Profile of Proposed State Highway F.A. Project No. 286, Hobart-Valparaiso Road, sheets 19 and 20, dated Fiscal year 1932; thence South 00 degrees 07 minutes 40 seconds West, along said centerline of the vacated O’Connor Street, a distance of 91.14 feet to the intersection with the Southerly right-of-way line of said State Highway No. 130; thence North 50 degrees 03 minutes 09 seconds West, along the Southerly right-of-way, 311.81 feet to the Point of Beginning; thence continuing North 50 degrees 03 minutes 09 seconds West, along said right-of-way line, 62.43 feet to Station 534 + 75, being 35 feet South of centerline, as shown on said Proposed State Highway Sheet No. 20; thence North 52 degrees 54 minutes 54 seconds West, continuing along said Southerly right-of-way line, 28.40 feet; thence continuing North 52 degrees 54 minutes 54 seconds West, along said right-of-way line, 71.72 feet to Station 533 + 75, being 40 feet South of said centerline, as shown on said Sheet No. 20; thence North 47 degrees 11 minutes 24 seconds West, continuing along said right-of-way line, 100.12 feet to Station 532 + 75, being 35 feet South of said centerline, as shown on said Sheet No. 20; thence North 50 degrees 03 minutes 09 seconds West, continuing along said right-of-way line, 796.05 feet to the Northwest corner of Parcel “E” of the L. & S. International, Inc. Tract, as described in Deed Record 433, page 577, in the Office of the Recorder of Porter County, Indiana; thence South 40 degrees 02 minutes 40 seconds West, along the West line of said Parcel “E”, 274.45 feet to the Southwest corner of said Parcel “E” and the Northerly right-of-way line, being 66 feet North of the centerline of the Conrail Railroad, formerly known as the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, as shown on Station Map for Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, Station 22425 + 50 to 22478 + 30, dated June 30, 1916; thence South 58 degrees 34 minutes 05 seconds East, along said Northerly right-of-way line, 1087.90 feet; thence North 31 degrees 25 minutes 55 seconds East 114.62 feet to the point of beginning.

GENERAL LOCATION: A parcel of land located at 1651 State Road 130, in Center 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

(August 12, 2010)