Technical Review Committee

Johnson County Technical Review Committee

The Technical Review Committee meets with developers to review and make preliminary recommendations relative to proposed major and minor subdivisions, new commercial development, and other larger-scale improvement projects.

 The Technical Review Committee conducts a review once a month and is headed by the County Planning Engineer, and is additionally comprised of representatives from the following departments and agencies: Plan Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals, Health Department, Department of Planning and Zoning, Transportation Department, Department of Natural Resources, Fire and Safety, electric utilities and school corporations. To request placement on an upcoming Technical Review Committee agenda, please contact the County Planning Engineer at 317-346-4350.

Application
The Director may require an applicant to obtain site plan approval, prior to issuance of a building permit, from the Johnson County Technical Review Committee, where engineering design standards shall be based on Subdivision Control Ordinance requirements. Any alteration not covered in design standards shall be determined by the Committee and/or Drainage Board. At the option of the Committee, additional data may be required, or the Committee may elect to forward the application to the Commission or to the Drainage Board, where engineering design standards shall be based on Subdivision Control Ordinance requirements. When so forwarded,
commercial projects shall be subject to preliminary and final drainage review by the Drainage Board.

Checkpoint Agencies
When an applicant is required to submit plans to the Technical Review Committee, a copy of the proposed plan shall be submitted to each of the following checkpoint agencies appropriate to the plan’s location so that their comment may be made to the Administrator: 

i. County Highway Engineer
ii. County Surveyor
iii. County Solid and Water Conservation District
iv. County Health Department
v. Local Fire Department
vi. Local School Corporation

To ensure that all checkpoint agencies have received a copy of the plans, a copy of a transmittal sheet for each checkpoint agency must be submitted to the Department of Planning office two week prior to the scheduled Technical Review Committee meeting at which the plan is to be reviewed.

Action by the Technical Review Committee 
The Technical Review Committee, as a designate of the Plan Commission, may grant approval of the site plan with no conditions, or with conditions after citation of an ordinance section relied upon for conditions. Conditional site plan approval may also be granted subject to the receipt of approvals or permits required from other governmental units; however, no actual development, construction activity, or use of land shall commence until all such required approvals or permits have been obtained. Within fifteen (15) days of the Committee review, the Department of Planning shall provide the applicant a written report specifying any changes required in order for the site plan to meet County ordinances.