The Culver Town Council members held a public hearing last week concerning the rezoning of certain property including 17664 State Road 17 and 19456 State Road 10.
The ordinance states that the Culver Plan Commission gave a favorable recommendation to the Town Council by a vote of 7-0-0 to properly rescind the Planned Unit Development back to Suburban Residential (S-1) from the current zoning of Planned Unit Development for the contiguous projects on State Road 17 and State Road 10.
Building Commissioner Steve Gorski said the building commissioner shall report to the Plan Commission if a Planned Unit Development time limit has expired. He said the Plan Commission members can decide whether to extend the time or initiate action to amend the zoning to rescind the Planned Unit Development designation. The Planned Unit Development designation was approved in April 2018, owned by Culver Investment Group.
He said a concept plan was presented in March 2018. He pointed to the town’s Planned Unit Development ordinance which states that the time limit for approval of secondary plan is not more than 18 months following Plan Commission approval of a primary plan. Gorski noted that neither a primary nor secondary plan was submitted and no work has been done or building permits issued for construction. The Plan Commission then took action to favorably recommend to the Town Council to rescind the Planned Unit Development designation.
During the public comments, Russ Mason asked that the Town Council further recommend to the Plan Commission that they rezone that property to Residential as several accessory structures for construction and other allowances under Suburban Residential zoning are likely not wanted by the public in the areas that are in town. Other comments given were favorable toward the approval of the rezoning.
Following the public hearing, the Culver Town Council unanimously approved the first reading of the ordinance that would rescind the Planned Unit Development. They then voted to suspend the rules and passed the ordinance on the second and third readings, thus adopting the ordinance.
The council also unanimously approved a motion to recommend to the Plan Commission to consider rezoning the property as Residential.
