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The Chesterton Board of Zoning Appeals agreed Thursday that while Lanier Chiesi can make minor repairs and modifications to golf carts at his new 403 S. Calumet Rd. location, he can’t conduct retail sales there until a public hearing Sept. 25 and a decision on his request for a use variance in a Business-2 zone. Chiesi currently operates LandCam Inc. offering regular and custom golf carts on Brown Street, yet “the building just got too small to do work and move around there,” he said. Chiesi wants to move to a larger, more visible site on Calumet Road, he told the BZA. The property owner there and actual BZA petitioner is John Hendricks. Chiesi said he plans no outside storage although some carts might be moved outdoors near the building during business hours; no repairs would be conducted outside. Vote was 5-0 to set the public hearing and to waive the late filing of some paperwork. On a separate matter brought up at last week’s Chesterton Advisory Plan Commission, building commissioner Mike Orlich said the developers of two outlots at the former Jewel site east of Indiana 49, not LZK developer Jeff Katz, are responsible for closing an existing road cut onto Indian Boundary Road. Orlich said while not enforcing the plat commitment was an oversight when the new Pizza Hut was built, Auto Zone won’t be given an occupancy permit until the road cuts are addressed properly. It’s been announced the long-vacant Jewel site will be redeveloped as medical offices and a 24-hour convenience center operated by St. Anthony Hospital.
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