An addiction rehabilitation facility for women given approval by the Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals in January may not be located in Tippecanoe Township after all.

All Things New, founded and directed by Bill Fawley, had petitioned the county BZA to build its addiction rehab facility on a parcel of former farmland on CR 375N in Tippecanoe Township. Approval was eventually granted, though not without opposition from a few nearby property owners.

But recently land came up for sale on Riverwood Ranch Road in Wayne Township, about a half-mile north of Old US 30 just outside the city limits of Warsaw and close to the Tippecanoe River. The parcel owned by Lifeline Youth and Family Services had been considered by All Things New months ago, Fawley said, but at the time the owner did not want to sell it. It has been used as residential housing for troubled boys and girls under the name Riverwood Ranch for more than 40 years, he said, and has an existing house and a small apartment, as well as a barn.

All Things New will petition the county BZA at its March 10 meeting and ask for an exception to allow the addiction rehab facility on Riverwood Ranch Road. If the petition is approved, Fawley noted, the board of directors for All Things New will have to decide whether or not they want to build a new facility in Tippecanoe Township or use existing buildings in Wayne Township already designed for something similar.

Potentially not having to build new could be more cost effective, he said. And opposition from nearby property owners may be less of a factor because the ministry existed several years before any surrounding houses were built.

The March 10 meeting of the county BZA begins at 8:30 a.m. and will be held in the multipurpose meeting room in the basement of the Justice Building in downtown Warsaw. There are several items on the agenda before the All Things New petition.