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Items on the August 14 council agenda

Posted by Paula Scott on August 14, 2023 - 6:31am

The Village of Bluffton has provided a preliminary agenda for the August 14 Council Meeting including the following items. The regular council meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. with a public hearing at 7:05 p.m. regarding an alley vacation petition for 150 Cherry St.

PUBLIC COMMENT

Dave Stratton & Cindy Leis - Allen Economic Development Group (AEDG) regarding an Enterprise Zone Agreement with Diamond Manufacturing

COMMITTEE REPORTS

  • Ordinance Committee: 08/02
  • Finance Committee: 08/11
  • Boards & Commissions Pathway Board: 07/28

LEGISLATION

ORDINANCE NO. 08-2023 - 1st Reading of an ordinance to vacate an alley as requested by Matthew and Hannah Alspach

ORDINANCE NO. 09-2023 - 1st Reading of an ordinance to vacate a 15 foot sanitary easement in Parkview of Bluffton

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Executive session expected for most of August 7 special council meeting

Posted by Staff on August 7, 2023 - 7:18am

The Village of Bluffton has announced a special council meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 7 at Town Hall, 154 N. Main.

It is expected that most of the meeting will occur in executive session to consider the sale/purchase of land.

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Bluffton council meeting summary for July 24

Posted by Staff on July 28, 2023 - 6:00am

Accessory Dwelling Units discussion scheduled for August 2

The 29 page packet for this meeting is attached HERE.

By Andy Chappell-Dick

Bluffton Village Council met at Town Hall on July 24 with a familiar agenda (pages 1-2):  hear committee reports, vote on legislation, and oversee the activities of Village administration. I would have said there's nothing better to watch on a Monday night, but while we were four in the public gallery, I have it on good authority that at that very hour several hundred citizens had packed in cheek to jowl at another hall two blocks south to watch a movie about Barbie. I took heart; few of them were voters.

ORDINANCE COMMITTEE
Reporting first for the Ordinance Committee, Councilor Mitch Kingsley raised the topic of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). The committee has long wanted to address a possible update to the Village's zoning ordinance. With the near-completion of the collaborative Bluffton Beyond Tomorrow comprehensive plan, said Kingsley, "we ask with apprehension, is zoning now on the table?"  ADUs have long existed in Bluffton, and with some inquiries about building new ones coming in, Village Administrator Jesse Blackburn was asking the committee if the present rules might need a modernization. 

A systematic look at how other communities have handled the trend is underway, and the committee meets again on August 2 at 5 p.m. to continue talks.  Like all Village meetings, it's open to the public.

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Summary of the very brief July Bluffton school board meeting

Posted by Staff on July 19, 2023 - 7:21am

By Paula Scott

Arriving ten minutes before this week’s meeting of the Bluffton Schools board of education meeting, I feared I was at the right place at the wrong time. No cars parked out front, no motion-sensor lights on in the vestibule or hallways.

When I arrived in the Bluffton Elementary School media center, board member Larry Hoffman was there, the sole signal that there was indeed a meeting that evening. As it turned out, my ten minutes of preparation time was almost as long as the meeting. Minus an executive session, the following meeting was just eleven minutes. That’s July news in a nutshell.

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Public hearing: Swiss Community Historical Society property

Posted by Paula Scott on July 18, 2023 - 3:37pm

The Richland Township Zoning Board of Appeals has announced a public hearing: 

- 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 2
- Meeting at 8435 N. Dixie Hwy, Bluffton

Contiguous property owners bordering 8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton, OH 45817 and interested general public are invited to attend.

The Swiss Community Historical Society at  8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton, OH 45817 is requesting a previously approved conditional use permit change to have a newly constructed building with a 20’ set back from the southernmost property line, changing from 30’ that was approved in 2022.

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Public hearing: 7244 Tom Fett Road accessory building

Posted by Staff on July 18, 2023 - 11:00am

The Richland Township Zoning Board of Appeals has announced a public hearing: 

- 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 2
- Meeting at 8435 N. Dixie Hwy, Bluffton

Contiguous property owners bordering 7244 Tom Fett Road, Bluffton, OH 45817 and interested general public are invited to attend.

The property owner of 7244 Tom Fett Road, Bluffton, OH 45817 is requesting to build an accessory building that would be 40’ wide by 56’ long and 14’ tall.  This building would be for storage.

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