Garden City Mobile Home Community LLC is moving forward with its plan to raise more homes to its mobile home stock, despite a tie in the vote through Columbus City Council to rezonit some of the property.
The order sought to replace the zoning of an acre asset at 960 Jonesville Road, without delay south of the existing Garden City Mobile Home Park, with “Residential: Prefabricated Home Park”. In the past, the acre was divided into zones for “Residential: Single-Family 2”. The owner, Dana DelSignore, is looking to climb up to seven more houses to the assets.
Columbus City Council’s vote on whether to approve the reading of the rezoning order time was divided from 3 to 3 on Tuesday night. Municipal Council members Elaine Hilber, Jerone Wood and Frank Miller voted against the ordinance, as they did in the previous reading. Councilman David Bush was late at the meeting, prompting a tie.
State law states that, since the City Council cannot take a resolution within 90 days of the original advice of the Planning Commission, the planning committee’s advice to rezoning the assets is the final resolution.
The rezoning order six commitments for DelSignore. These commitments were presented through Jeff Bergman at a previous assembly and are:
The assets in question must be combined with the park plot of the existing cell home and evolved with shared access and services.
New homes cannot be occupied until public water service has been installed.
A about 6 feet high should be built along the tracks.
Direct to assets in consultation with National Highway 11 will be limited to emergency and structure use only.
A new right of way of Highway 11 will be compromised along the facade of the assets in question.
An open area of at least 3400 square feet, as well as picnic facilities and games, should be provided.
Bergman also added a commitment that no new homes would be installed before the annexation of the assets. This amendment was approved through the City Council at its last meeting, when the first reading of the ordinance was followed by a 4-3 vote.
However, since this additional commitment is not a component of the original board decision, it is not included in the approved edition of the order.
“There is some other procedure through which the owner … which is outside the city limits, which needs to connect to the city’s public services, goes through an audit procedure. And if these assets are eligible for annexation, they are denied linking outside the city limits and asked to register an annexation application instead,” Bergman said.
It concluded that the end result was annexation, albeit otherwise.
While making the plans the staff gave favorable advice for the annexation of the property, DelSignore did not request the annexation at this time. This resolution is similar to your efforts to bring the city’s water service to the cell home park.
Bergman said the cell home park is serviced through the city’s sewer system, not serviced through the city’s water branch at this time. Instead, the park is served through shared wells.
“They are interested in receiving water services through Columbus City Utilities,” Bergman said. «… One of the promising tactics they have defined to bring water to this site is to apply for a grant through the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs. Array.. This subsidy would not be granted if they were glued to the boundaries of the people. And that’s why they withdrew their application for annexation.
DelSignore stated that they were applying for a $500,000 grant from OCRA. DelSignore’s attorney, Jeff Rocker, said the deadline for the grant proposal is October and that the grant budget is for the allocation of funds.
Bergman said the plan development board waited to take the rezoning order to the city council so that DelSignore had time to paint the grant application.
Getting the city’s water service for the cell home park is a driving force of the project.
“The water pipe is very expensive,” DelSignore said. “So we’re looking to split the cost. We currently have a license for 46 options in our community. And that’s why we’re looking to pick up the other six or seven. I say six because we’ll have one to give access. Array.. We are looking to spread the costs, which are very expensive between 46 or 47 homes anyway, and it’s very complicated to do so.”
City Councilman Grace Kestler said DelSignore had told her that she intended to bring water from the city to the area, whether the ordinance was passed or not.
Wood said the concept of bringing city water to the domain was the only thing that would have had him pass the ordinance. But because of Kestler’s comment, his vote remained “no.”
“I sense the importance of housing for low-income people,” he said, “and I sense it’s a necessity for Columbus, but I’m not comfortable putting more in this area.”
Hilber and Miller said they also felt uncomfortable adding more cell homes to the area. Assets are located between National Highway 11 and the Louisville-Indiana Railroad, which poses protection issues.
“If we recognize that it’s been 60 years, we shouldn’t have put houses on that property, so I don’t need to spend that in 30 years and say the same thing,” Hilber said.
Kestler, Tom Dell and Tim Shuffett voted to approve the order. Dell noted that the assignment provides the opportunity for existing residents to make a chance.
City attorney Alan Whitted said a tied vote would result in the case proceeding until the next city council assembly because the mayor cannot break the tie in a rezoning case.
However, Bergman said state law states that if 90 days have passed since the board of the planning commission and the city council has not taken a resolution, the resolution of the planning commission is the final verdict. Bergman said the next meeting of the City Council, to be held on 1 September, is outside that limit.
“We calculated it a little this time, ” said Bergman. «… The board of the planning committee came here at its March meeting. We subtract from that total every and every day that the governor’s decree would have prohibited non-essential matters, such as this one, and then calculated the 90 days. “
Bergman said he’d check the number of days again, just in case. Whitted said a report will be sent to City Hall to document the results.
The City Council thought of postponing the vote on the order until later in the assembly so that when Bush arrived, he could break the tie. However, a unanimous vote was needed to take this action, and Miller voted against it. As a result, the city council was unable to delay the vote.
Bush arrived later at the meeting, after the vote had already taken place.
At the last meeting of the City Council, Bush, who is the Liaison Officer of the City Council with the City Planning Commission, said the allocation would be situations for existing citizens and would meet the need for affordable housing.
“Dana has a waiting list for this property,” Bush said. «… If available, I might go up five houses tomorrow, because that desire in our network is very great.”
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