Shelbyville Common Council pushes controversial annexation request to April 6 meeting

The Shelbyville Common Council was set to vote on an annexation and rezoning request for more than 400 acres east of Shelbyville at its second February meeting, scheduled for Feb. 19 at Breck Auditorium at Shelbyville High School.

Shelbyville Mayor Scott Furgeson asked the council at its Monday night meeting to push that vote back to allow for an engineer to complete a site survey on the property that has been targeted for a data center campus.

The engineer’s report would not be completed before Feb. 19, according to Furgeson.

The annexation request will now be held on April 6 at the first council meeting of that month. That meeting will likely be held again at Shelbyville High School pending approval from the school system.

In other business Monday at City Hall:

• The council was presented with information about a stormwater rate and sanitary rate increase that is needed. The proposed rate increase will be nearly $110 total per year per household if approved at a later meeting following a public hearing. The last sanitary fee increase came in 2013 while there has not been a stormwater fee increase in its 22 years of existence, according to Furgeson.
• The council approved the removal of Christopher Clark from the Board of Zoning Appeals. The council will need to appoint a new representative to the BZA.
• The mayor discussed a Build-Operate-Transfer project to create a new City of Shelbyville Police Department building on Miller Avenue at the former site of Hubler Collision. The next phase is to begin working on plans for the site.

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