I'm going to call this meeting to order.

This is a public hearing of the Metropolitan Board of Zoning Appeals, Division III.

I'm Joanna Taft, Chairperson of Division III.

Other board members present to my left are Bart Brown and Rodrigue Bohanan.

And to my right, Percy Bland Jr.

Legal Counsel for the board today is Chris Steinmetz.

Staff members present today from the Division of Planning are Eddie Honeya, Principal Planner 2, Jeffrey York, Senior Planner, Robert Eulenhake, Senior Planner, Marlene Irehetta, Senior Planner, Genesis Hill, Associate Planner.

Heather Stefan, Senior Specialist and Secretary to the Board.

Matt Pleasant is the current planning administrator.

The board has copies of the zoning ordinances that will be incorporated by reference into the record of each case heard today.

The proceedings of this hearing are governed by the board's rules of procedure.

The expedited cases will be heard immediately after all requests for continuances or withdrawals.

As each non-expedited case is called, petitioners and remonstrators interested in that particular case will please stand.

Those who tend to testify will please remain standing and be sworn.

Petitioners should be on your left and remonstrators on your right as you face the board.

Those who testify will state their name and address for the record before beginning the testify.

Petitioners and persons appearing in support of the case being heard shall have a maximum of 15 minutes for the presentation of evidence, statements, and arguments in support of the petition.

Remonstrators and persons appearing in opposition to the petition shall have a maximum of 15 minutes for the presentation of evidence, statements, and arguments in opposition to the petition.

Staff will then present the administrator's comments regarding the petition.

The petitioner will then be allowed five minutes for rebuttal and a summation of the case.

Rebuttal must be limited to the subject matter of the initial presentations.

Remonstrators will then be allowed five minutes for rebuttal of the petitioner's rebuttal evidence and a brief closing statement.

No further evidence, statements, or arguments will be heard unless it's at the discretion of the board.

Please limit your testimony and evidence to the matters covered in the statutory requirements, which must be met in order for the board to grant a variance.

If the petitioners have failed to comply with all notice requirements as stipulated by the board's rules of procedure, including posting of the notice signed on the subject property at least 23 days prior to the hearing, the board may continue the petition.

Anyone at this hearing who thinks complete and proper notice has not been given and would like the petition continued due to lack of proper notice, must bring this matter to the board's attention at the beginning of the hearing.

The board may impose various conditions or commitments as as amendments before reaching the decision on certain petitions.

The installation for landscaping screening, the paving of parking area, and the dedication of rights away or examples.

These conditions and commitments are an integral part of the board's decision and must be met for a grant of variance to be valid.

Compliance with the conditions imposed by the board must be proved by an affidavit of compliance submitted by the petitioner within 30 days of completion.

Unless otherwise specified, an improvement location permit must be obtained prior to the establishment of the authorized improvements.

Failure to comply with any conditions or commitments of a variance grant is a violation enforceable by the Department of Business and Neighborhood Services.

A person may file a written request to receive notice of the filing of a petition for judicial review of a decision of the board.

The written request must be filed within five days of the board's decision and must include the person's full name and contact information and a contact correct mailing address and reference to the board's petition number.

Forms may be available are available and may be obtained from the board's secretary.

Please be advised that contacting members of the board regarding a matter pending before the board outside of this public hearing process is prohibited.

Please be courteous and orderly at all times, and please be sure all cell phone ringers are turned off.

Please note that there are only four board members present today.

If your request will need three votes to take action on a request.

If an indecisive vote occurs, your petition will be automatically continued to the next hearing of the board.

We will take this into consideration when hearing special requests.

Is there anyone in the audience who has questions about our procedure?

If not, um before we hear special requests, I'll ask for a waiver of our rules of procedure to allow the board to vote for all expedited petitions and adopt their findings in fact without any additional testimony from the individual petitioners.

So I need a motion from the board.

Bohan is so move.

I need a second.

Second.

I'll now ask for a vote.

Bland.

Bland, yes.

Bohannon.

Bohannon, yes.

Brown, yes.

Taft, yes.

So now we'll consider special requests and continuances at this time.

Good afternoon.

John Cross address 13 North State Street, suite 241, Greenfield, Indiana, 46140.

Here on the third continued petition today, uh document is case number 2022 DV3025 4639 Myrtle Lane.

The petitioner is requesting a uh a continuance or a transfer for the reason being that uh since filing they've been working with staff uh and most recently did ask staff's opinion on proposed alterations to the petition and variance requests.

Uh staff met and could not give a definite answer without seeing an amended site plan which has not yet been prepared, so the petitioner would like additional time to prepare that, submit it, and then continue to work with staff on this uh amended petition.