A South Lake County developer’s plan to bring into St. John a non-contiguous land parcel will likely land the town in court if it doesn’t follow a law crafted to prevent municipalities from doing what they’re attempting, vowed the State Senator who wrote the law.

Sen. Rick Niemeyer, R-Lowell, told the St. John Town Council at its packed September 10 public hearing to annex the 167-acre property at 12863 State Line Rd. in unincorporated Hanover Township that he wrote the law — House Bill 1099 written in 2014 (https://legiscan.com/IN/text/HB1099/2014) and cosponsored with Lonnie Randolph, D-East Chicago — because the Town of Lowell owned and operated an existing well field and wastewater treatment plant on which they wanted to make some updates. The land wasn’t contiguous to the town border

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