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 20th of July, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in the Porter County Administration Center, 155 Indiana Avenue, Suite 205, Valparaiso, Indiana, to consider the petition of Bethel Valparaiso All Nations Church, Inc., 552 Morthland Drive, Valparaiso, seeking a Development Standard Variances from the following Unified Development Ordinance Section: 5.22 Landscaping General; 5.26 Landscaping: Lot Plantings, Commercial; 7.25 Pedestrian Network Standards: Commercial and Industrial; 7.27 Perimeter Landscaping Standards: Commercial and Industrial; 7.28 Storm Water Standards: General; Ordinance 08-17; ST-01, Street Trees; in order to construct a new place of worship

Legal Description: Out Lot A

A parcel of land in the Southwest Quarter of Section 30, Township 35 North, Range 5 West of the Second Principal Meridian, Porter County, Indiana, bounded and described as follows: Commencing at the Southeast corner of said Quarter; thence South 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, 1160.84 feet along the South line of said Quarter; thence North 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East, 310.0 feet; thence South 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, 450.0 feet to the East line of Covenant Place, as per the plat thereof, recorded in Plat File 36-D-4 in the Porter County Recorder’s Office; thence North 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East, along said East line, 471.11 feet; thence North 29 degrees 28 minutes 04 seconds West, 158.29 feet to the Southerly right of way line of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad; thence along said Southerly line the following 3 courses and distances: Around a curve to the left having a radius of 2912.58 feet, an arc distance of 140.09 feet, subtending a chord of 140.07 feet bearing South 64 degrees 37 minutes 04 seconds East, around a spiral to the left having a long chord of 122.63 feet bearing South 66 degrees 11 minutes 15 seconds East; thence South 67 degrees 20 minutes 28 seconds East; 1568.93 feet to the East line of said Quarter; thence South 00 degrees 35 minutes 17 seconds East, 205.03 feet along said East Quarter line to the Point of Commencement.

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

(July 6, 2011)