NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED

DEVELOPMENT STANDARD VARIANCE

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Zoning Appeals of the County of Porter, Indiana, will hold a public hearing on the 15th of June, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in the Porter County Administration Center, 155 Indiana Avenue, Suite 205, Valparaiso, Indiana, to consider the petition of The Salvation Army, seeking Development Standard Variances from the Unified Development Ordinance, to waive the following Sections: 5.46 Sign; General, E-1: Signs that utilize any motion picture, laser or visual projection of images or copy, Section 5.49 Sign; Office and Institutional, D ii: Maximum height Eight (8) feet, and no part of a ground sign shall be more than ten (10) feet above ground level, and to increase maximum footage area from forty-six (46) square feet to eighty (80) square feet, all in order to construct a Digital LED sign, located on the following described parcel of land:

Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34 in Block 6 in St. Michael American Russian Orphan Home and Institution Subdivision, as per plat thereof, recorded in Miscellaneous Record “N”, page 184, in the Office of the Recorder of Porter County, Indiana.

Subject to: (1) Real estate taxes for 1994 due and payable in 1995, and thereafter, if any. (2) Covenants, restrictions and easements of record.

GENERAL LOCATION: A parcel of land located at 799 Capital Road, in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.

Written suggestions to said proposed 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/Zoning Administrator

(May 25, 2011)