!!!Grant County Zoning Ordinance!!!
For Information regarding the Grant County Zoning Ordinance please refer to the link below.---->Click Here<----
Duties and Responsibilities
The Grant County Area Plan Commission serves many functions for the community and consists of multiple functions:- Staff members
- Plan Commission Board
- Board of Zoning Appeals
- Jurisdiction over the Towns of:
- Jonesboro
- Fairmount
- Matthews
- Upland
- Van Buren
- Sweetser
- Rural Grant County
Duties of the Office include but are not limited to:
- Maintain zoning maps
- Enforce the zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance, and wireless facilities tower ordinance
- Maintain master and comprehensive plan
- Issue and maintain improvement location and building permits (Marion City issues its own permits)
- Issue and maintain change of use and substitution applications
- Inspect structures according to current Indiana Building Codes
- Inspect and enforce any violations to the zoning ordinance (i.e. building too close to property lines, illegal business, home occupations)
- Take petitions for re-zoning, subdivisions, variances and special exceptions and:
- Gather all information necessary for the petition
- Gather data on the site the petition is requested for
- Gather any data the board members request about the petition