I sat through the testimony and public comment on the Maxinkuckee Village project Thursday and Friday last week and learned that I have a few more lurkers than I realized. My previous blog entry on Maxinkuckee Village was cited directly by one side and I understand the other side references it in some of their online discussions. For those of you dropping in to see what I said, I thought I would make it easy for you and link that previous entry here.
Kevin Berger
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Sand Hill Farm – Topography
When I bought the 25 acre portion of the site at auction in 2005 there was a discrepancy in the acreage. The property was listed as approximately 28 acres, but in reality it is closer to 25. Fortunately for me the purchase documents were based on a per acre price. I split the cost of a survey with the seller. The savings were more than enough to pay for my half of the metes and bounds survey as well as allowing me to piggy back an aerial topography on top of that! As near as I can tell, the discrepancy in acreage occurred when additional right-of-way was acquired by the State for State Road 17. The County collected property taxes for decades on property that wasn’t taxable…
Sand Hill Farm – PUD
Sand Hill Farm is the working name of the Planned Unit Development (PUD) that I plan to submit for consideration to the Culver Plan Commission. I have decided to put the progress of this on this Blog in order to document the process and to solicit input.
The name comes from my childhood, when the property was owned by my Great Aunt and Uncle, Katy and Everett Easterday. As kids we used to play on the Sand Hill and I’ve found that it is known by that moniker to others in the community as well.
The property in question consists of four parcels as shown here. It runs from Academy Road south behind the CCHS baseball diamond, Little League diamonds and down behind Easterday Construction Co., Inc. It then ties into the larger parcel to the west that has frontage on Jefferson Street and State Road 17. It consists of roughly 40 acres. It is currently a mixture of farmland and woods. The current zoning of the property is S-1, Suburban Residential. The property falls within the Culver Zoning Boundaries, but is currently outside the Town Limits.