Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

North Canton Planning Commission meeting this is January 88th 2025 at 6:01 p.m. uh the first item on the agenda is a roll call please Mr Del here Mr melon here Mr Sarah president Mr leage here Mr Reed here okay next on the agenda tonight is a couple administrative items uh the first is our election of officers for the this year or to believe it's January but we're back to electing our officers um I don't know if we need any discussion commission members or if anyone has a motion can can we do a a BOGO on the motion two at a time we we can do whatever we'd like to do yes I would like to uh to motion um to have Mr Delp and Mr Sarah to retain their positions as chairman and vice chairman okay second that motion we have a motion from uh Mr mahen and we have a second from Mr leage if we could do a roll call please Mr Del uh I will abstain Mr Mahon yes Mr Sarah yes Mr leage yes Mr Reed yes okay thank you gentlemen all right next is establish our 2025 Planning Commission meeting calendar um I think we were planning this keep the same 600 p.m. start time and then um I don't know if there's any dates that uh conflict with holidays that might be an

issue but typically the first Wednesday correct I don't know if Martin Martin if you usually the the Fourth of July is usually the problem right it's a Friday this year okay so we'll have a cou a day in between yeah okay and even if we get any conflicts later in the year we can certainly move those but typically we'd be looking at the first first Wednesday of the month at 600 p.m. uh if any I'll make a motion to hold the first Wednesday of each month at 6: p.m. I will Mr Sarah thank you I will second roll call please Mr Reed yes Mr leage yes Mr Sarah yes Mr melson yes Mr D yes all right next on the agenda is our minutes for consideration this is the uh submit the December 4th 2024 meeting minutes for approval I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from the December 4th meeting there submitted second okay we have a motion from Mr leage second from Mr Sarah uh roll call please Mr mson yes Mr Sarah yes Mr leage yes Mr Reed yes Mr D abstain all right next is our public hearing portion of our meetings tonight the first item is Ordinance 0120255 one parcel in the city of North Canton in accordance with the amendment

procedure set forth in chapter 1182 of the Planning and Zoning code from its existing classification to Main Street North um I believe this came from the city so I'm not sure who is presenting this tonight would the commission prefer I stay here or go to the Pod um I don't think we have I think you can stay there it's totally fine I'll be just as official here then yes thank you uh thank you uh Planning Commission members my name is Jason sagy I'm with uh city of North Ken Economic Development 145 North M Street North Canton Ohio 44720 um yeah this proposal uh came from the city Administration this is a a one parcel and a block of five Parcels owned by the North Canton Community Improvement Corporation um four of the parcels with Frontage on Main Street are already Zone Main Street North this parcel which is addressed on 11th Street Northwest is the one parcel of the five that is zoned uh as single family uh residential R50 and so the requested zoning amendment is to uh rezone the property to Main Street North to make it consistent with the other four properties um currently the North Canton Community Improvement Corporation we put out a request for proposals for redevelopment of all five of the parcels and so the uh the rationale behind the zoning change is there's a a couple different reasons we feel like it will make uh this property consistent with the zoning of the other four Parcels uh it would remove some uncertainty From perspective purchasers of the property uh to have the Zoning for all five Parcels be consistent um we

do feel it's compatible with the land use in the uh in the Main Street Corridor um which is a commercial zoning category and we feel like it would set the a future purchaser up for success by having all five Parcels with the same uh zoning category um as as far as the compliance with the master plan uh two of the goals of the city's master plan are both for strategic land banking which is the reason these properties were acquired by the uh Community Improvement Corporation to begin with and another goal of the master plan is to uh reutilize uh underutilized uh Residential Properties in the Main Street Corridor so those those are are reasons for coming before you with the uh petition for the resoning happy to answer any questions okay thank you commission members um if you have any questions feel free at this time would rezone from residential to gbb uh yeah actually to Main Street North but it that's a similar zoning category to the general business correct okay cuz right now it's currently residential in the R50 correct would would they remain separate Properties or would that go through a lot of consolidation that's a great question in the request for proposals we uh propose selling the properties as a block but um when we do get proposals I think that the cic would take a look at each proposal individually and it's possible a perspective buyer might want to subdivide or combine um but right now they are still separate Parcels until the till the time of proposal and come to some agreement with the purchaser okay um Ben young here

U the our City's ideal scenario would be a single buyer who consolidates and performs one development corre so what's the total acreage uh the total acreage for all the properties is about 1.42 Acres I believe any other questions from commission members at this time okay um at this point we would open this up to uh the public audience to speak um just a reminder for anybody in the audience if you haven't been here before um if you could make your way to the podium state your name and your address and then if we could keep your uh time to about five minutes for your initial uh thoughts and discussion that' be great and then we can hopefully answer any questions you may have so if anyone from the public would like to speak at this time feel free right very good thanks for uh allowing me to have this time with you this evening appreciate it uh just a quick bio so you know who I am uh my name is Dan Hanny my wife Gina and I have been residents in nor k for 20 years we live on uh 215 woodro Street Northwest and we're grateful for the services that the city of North Camp provides not the least of which three of my daughters graduated from Hoover High School and uh I'm very proud of that fact and very grateful so we're thankful and my wife also is a tutor uh teacher

Aid at Northwood primary so we have an investment in the community we lived here uh uh like I said for 20 years and we appreciate U uh what the city has provided for us uh in terms of uh their services um I've read both sections of the proposal uh we were sent a letter that I received Monday when I got home from work Monday my wife said oh there's a letter from City Hall and uh I read it and I thought wow that is coming a little late in the game here I didn't know anything about what was happening in terms of this zoning proposal and the next day I had to go to work so I really had no time to look it over and carefully consider uh what the implications of this resoning uh process was about so I had to scramble around today a little bit and do a little bit of digging and get some information um but I do have some questions I know my time is limited so I have uh three questions but one general question and I want to frame this in a way that is um is just for the sake of of getting a feel for where you are with this whole process I've heard what the proposal is I'm not anti- bus business I'm for business I think better is better certainly I can appreciate what's happened with meire and some of the other businesses and I'm not here to rail against that at all I think it's important for our city to develop and progress and this is positive but I do have some concerns and my one question is a general one has anyone here been on site actually to see the property question and its position relative to my property and my neighbor's property you don't have to say yes or no I pose that

as a rhetorical question because the reason why I asked that question is because when you put eyes on the property you get a chance to feel what it's like to have my property and her property butt up against this particular lot when I sit on my back porch I could look across my lot into that said property over to B gazari and uh so now with this resoning I'm not exactly sure what that's going to look like so that's the question have you been on site to actually look at the site have you seen what it looks like and what's what's entailed there so here's the first question draining water Watershed and flooding how will this be addressed uh we lived through the 100-year flood three years ago it was it was a terrible mess in fact I I just put in my backyard I shoveled seven yards of top soil seated it put straw on it and then we had the storm so you can imagine how discouraged I was after all that work but that lot flooded as it did with bana my neighbor's lot it flooded so if you've been out there you know that this is a a terrible situation for drainage because the the property is you go west slopes downwards and our property her property becomes place where water collects now they they mitigated their situation by uh arranging um magic I think it was or somebody to come in and put a drainage and tie it into the sewer because there was no other way for water to be removed from her property but she suffered damage from from that situation so my question is how will this be addressed I have no idea who the buyer is if you have a buyer if there's a contingency plan or what's going on right now now but that is certainly a

concern whether it'll be a parking lot uh I understand a residential I understand about putting a house there I knew perfectly well what we were getting into when we bought that property four years ago but now this kind of changes the game The Contours are now changing so that's my first question how's that going to be addressed because that's going to be a huge challenge in terms of how do you uh uh get rid of the water that collects in that area so that whoever buys the property whoever plans to develop it better be ready to spend a lot of money because I I suspect it's going to cost a lot of money to do that second of all and I think you would appreciate it if you were in my shoes would not the question be home value this is a retirement home for me in my wife will my home decrease in value because of this proposed change this is a you have no answer to that question because you're not real interest I have no idea but anytime that changes uh I've got to think about a potential buyer who comes and looks over the property and for the sake of discussion if it's a parking lot that person can very easily be this be dissuaded from purchasing the property I might have a hard time selling it I don't know I can't predict it but that's a question that we we have as residents and and and uh living there where we do then the third question and feel free to answer these and and bring some clarification because that's what I'm here for I'm not here to to uh be angry or anything like that I just need clarification because this really came as a surprise to me um privacy that's the other issue whether the property will be used for parking or whatever means it is what's the Privacy uh considerations if you have a builder to

come in uh and take that property I understand the packaging I understand what that's all about but I'm still having trying to understand what value that piece of property would be for those four uh homes on that are already been designated for commercial uh what does that serve so these are the questions that I'm posing and I'm just wondering can I get some feedback tonight some clarification because I'm concerned um I didn't expect this to happen uh it took me by surprise it took Brianna by surprise and I have grandkids that like to come and visit like to play in the backyard and she's got three kids uh as well so these are her concern and my concern this evening and what can you do to allay our fears and concerns about this okay so there that's thank you I'm done I'll uh my five minutes well no that's fine you can stay minut you can stay there and we'll uh questions I can I can try to answer simple question yeah I can try to answer some of these and then if I don't have the answers uh we'll defer to maybe people that will um um I've been by the site I know exactly where it is I was by the I've been by that site a million times before this came across I mean as soon as I saw it come in the inbox I'm like oh I know the guy that appeared on my security I know exactly where this is at um so yes you know I'm kind of familiar with the area um the water issues this has been an issue that's come up in the past many times at our meetings uh I would say much more so with Residential Properties than commercial properties because commercial properties are held to a higher standard for water

management right so if this if this goes through and a business to go in or even the businesses any business that could go in with the with a with these properties along Main Street um they have to adhere to a standard that a residential lot would not have to adhere to meaning any water that's landing on that site cannot leave that site within a ter certain time period so from that point of view in my experience professionally also with you know our board here is that a commercial property you should not have a concern with a commercial property in water drainage if it is a problem that means something wasn't done right and it would be fixed right I'm sure the standards are are they're they're a lot higher residential situations so I get down and by the way let me just say uh props to Jamie here because when I got the letter Monday night I called him on the phone within 10 minutes he called me back yeah and that meant a lot to me that really impressed me because it showed concern and again let me reiterate when I come home from work I read a letter like that I'm troubled sure because I don't feel like I've had had enough time to prepare uh to understand exactly what's going on but Jamie thank you so much I just want to go on record and say thanks to him for for helping me out in so continue so yes I would say you know if it were be developed as a business site the water situation would improve drastically that's what J said to me on the phone if I could elaborate on that Eric yes sure under um current Ohio EPA law as it currently sits as a residential lot less than one

acre um to what you alluded to earlier there are no storm water regulations they have to comply with they could Mound up the land someone could build a house Mound up the land and pour all the water onto the back neighbors's property if they wanted to but as a commercial property that triggers under state law um jurisdiction for Stark County Soil and Water Protection District and so any Redevelopment that occurs not only has to get building permits through the city but also has to get storm water permits from Stark Soil and Water and so to your point they would be required to capture all the rain that falls on their property and hold it on their property um for roughly 15 hours there's some variation to that but roughly 15 hours and when it's discharged it has to be discharged into an approved public storm sewer system so it can't be discharged onto the neighbor's property correct and and then and then also just to piggyback onto that since these these parcels combin over an acre that that would trigger you know I believe some EPA involvement at that point the s y so try to alleviate your concerns with the water I would think it would actually improve you're just kind of repeating what Jamie already told me on the phone so I get that um then on to the second question which you probably cannot answer uh I actually called a local wielder to kind of find out uh what would happen in the case that that got developed it sounds like it's going to happen be at a parking lot or something else uh just where we stand uh real estate wise because that is a concern sure and uh it's a concern for

Brianna as well and then the issues along that along those lines you had mentioned you know if it's a parking lot or privacy um if this was to be developed commercially those plans would have to come back through the city have to come in front of this commission and Not only would it have to meet the guidelines in place for the Main Street North zoning but then also the commission can also make consideration to say look you're next to a residential user we need to provide more privacy than even the code says and suggest that to the user so I don't want you to you know we don't want you to think that oh somebody can just come in and do whatever they want they have to come in they have to apply to the city they have to meet the standards set forth and most likely it would probably come in front of this commission again for their development and what they're going to do it's a personal preference understand this when I say this I would rather not look out the backyard at a parking lot understood would anybody here like to have a parking lot in our backyard look out in the evening I don't but what can I do I'm just a citizen I can't fight this or you know whatever but I can't voice my concern about it and uh like I said it's a place where we live I enjoy the backyard I work hard at improving it and um I mean it's hard enough to look at Mama gazari brick building in the back there uh but that's okay so that's pretty much uh where I'm at with this whole matter and U I want to be respectful and uh just let you know that I appreciate you're taking the time to

listen to my concerns this evening so did you want to ask me any questions at all about anything yeah I'd like to know what lot you're actually on I've got a two sh it's do you have a plat this one right here can I approach approach the yes when I call approach the bench not so your property is right here yeah that's it right there so this is the uh I had uh Bruce Connor is's a personal friend of mine with Buckeye surveying and I had to lot survey would that be these two right here can you see yes this one and this one these two so this is mine and bana's property right here then right we're talking about okay okay um what what is the dimension of this this property oh right here is 90 what 53.73 this is the back end of mine right here okay so this is what we're talking about here yeah this I got I'm just trying to okay so I know nothing about this stuff but I'm having a hard time understanding what do you do with that small slice of property I I just don't I can't figure that out because it really becomes one it's all one one proper so I having a hard time visualizing what you're talking about um do we have that diagram I'm do we have a zoomed out diagram of yeah there we go the yes the next the map overlay if you can can you zoom in on that just a little bit so that's the that is the the the parcel we are discussing but also to the east along Main Street the abing parcels yeah are so it would become in theory the Z that that would all that zoning would be the same as Main Street

but those Parcels would be com potentially combined into one bigger parcel and that's what we hope to a developer you know part of this was part of the land banking for the city of North Canton there's really we're so locked on greens space that if a developer wanted to come in and needed a significant amount that's why we put all these together I I trust me I understand the the philosophy behind this the logic behind it I'm not here to debate that I'm just simply saying as a result of that planning committee as a citizen living here it does encroach on privacy issues safety issues other kinds of issues and that was the reason why I asked about have you visited the site because if you did you could see the back of my house M and so those are the things that that I'm concerned about I'm done and then you want to speak again thank you so much for your time if you'd like a copy of these questions right here uh I'll be glad to give you a copy well to to give you some ease if if and when it ever did get developed I'm sorry I didn't hear a word you said if and when it ever got developed yes it's going to come back through the planning commit that's what that's what Eric said yes and you're going to we have the city has rules that protects residents with a commercial application yeah so we have rules that will require things like Landscaping to buffer property so residential to a general business right there's rules to uh provide like a fencing approach right so they're going to have to bring it back

to the city go through these meetings and our and and you would be called or sent another you know certified email or a letter yes asking you to come and that's you know you really want to speak your opinion at that because this plan commission does listen to the residents yeah so I if that hopefully it gives you a little Comfort there is a little bit I'm just still trying to figure out what the advantage is is purchasing that property it is get to combine it with the other ones and they I I hear that I just if and that goes back to the storm water issue if they were to develop let's just say you bought one of those small Lots on Main Street the building can only be so big because you have to have somewhere to put all the storm water so and if the lots are combined that generates more ability to use that land for the building parking and storm water retention but I still have to face the the location of it house I have those personal concerns sure I mean and I don't want my house devalued because of that that's not what expected you know and uh all right thank you very much I appreciate it thank you for your comments I do have one comment though since he received the certified mail on Monday is there [Music] any deadline before this meeting takes place so on the noticing uh the ordinance requires we send out letters via first class mail 7 days ahead of the meeting and these notices were placed in

the mail as required by the ordinance our cut off time is pretty close we try to keep the meetings moving along to not delay projects so our application deadline for Planning Commission is only 2 weeks out so that gives us about a week to work on everything get it put together and then affect the notice required and in this case um Miss Holloway did ask that we send her an email and we did with that notice as well in addition to the first class mail okay so the city followed the proper guidelines that you're set up to do that's correct and and that is to clarify everyone within 150 ft of the parcel and consideration okay thank you you're welcome correct me if I'm wrong but even sight lighting parking lot lighting would have to be controlled so that there wasn't any light right uh through a photo study as far as light spread so that it's not going on to neighboring property specifically residential property I'm glad you brought that up because I never thought of that but that is true we get requ we get enough light anyway yeah from Main Street over there not to mention wood Dr is a thorough fair for the Emergency Services so we get plenty of those lights coming up and down our street W um okay well actually the screening that Mr Sarah and Mr Delp mentioned would actually probably help your situation in looking at the back of the brick building where mama gazari is so as commercial property they required to screen um next if you'd like to speak name and address Brianna H 21 Wood Street Northwest North

Canton um first question I have is you said oh week or seven days is it seven business days or just seven days the ordinance just says seven days yeah because I know she let me know on July or J uh December 31st but the letter the actual letters were postmarked January 2nd and then we received them on Monday so technically I don't know if about seven days um but uh my biggest concern is things that Dan said about flooding on our property and um with the blood that happened and things like that but also um part of our driveway in our yard is actually an easement with those other properties so that also concerns me because like as it stands right now it's just land you know um and then you guys say like as it stands as residential it wouldn't be like looked into for flooding purposes and stuff if someone decided to build on it but the fact is that there's no Road access to it so you can't no one could really build on it anyways as a residential property um Martin do you have any I know I asked you offline regarding the TW 11th Street um but if someone was to build a house there would that be extended or they would have to I'm not sure the me street already reaches the back property line it already reaches the back property line I didn't know if it quite reached that yeah I don't think

it reaches the next parcel is the doesn't touch stre CU that's the reason that the guy that owned the property sold it was because he couldn't build on it so um I doubt that that was I don't know the ins and outs of that but I doubt that it wasn't because he couldn't build on it I would have to say it was probably something to do with utilities getting back there at the owner's cost would be my guess yeah there is a deed right away that runs down probably 12 Parcels to the West that would be um I believe the 11th Street extension so it's what we refer to as a paper street so there's obviously no Street there so theoretically that could be developed into a street as the right away does exist for th that infrastructure to occur at this point there as I understand talking with the city engineer there is no plan specific Ally to either develop that into a street or vacate that's the other option would be to vacate that right away and turn it into private property which then could be developed into um in the case of a a private residence it could be a driveway perhaps with um we often will refer to that configuration is like a flag lot where you have a small parcel that extends out to the RightWay our ordinance does require that all Parcels have Frontage on the street so there are possibilities of doing that uh as it currently is set up it would have to be right away but again that could be modified and there is no plan one way or the other to do

either and it really does depend on the development of the properties as I understand I I hope that helps clarify that a little bit yeah it just from where I see I'm like seeing it it doesn't look like the road reaches that far like the road that is there cuz like I walked behind my yard to Mama gazari before and stuff and it doesn't seem like the road reaches do that so I if you're interested I do have the gis on my computer screen here if I so if someone bought the lot Martin in theory they could extend a driveway to it or the city May extend the road to it I'm arly pavement reaches that lot it ends in front of that lot ends in front of that lot so they could connect so if a residential purchaser were to buy it they would just connect to the street with a driveway yeah Mama gard's back driveway connects like right into the dead end of 11th which is across the street from this lot so You' you'd essentially put the driveway right across from Mama gard's back drivve right so someone yes could develop as a residential property if if they so wanted to um but yeah like I said my other concern is if they lump all these properties together um with the easement that is on our property too um so it kind of affects both the side of our property and behind our property uh regarding the easement is

that just for your driveway in the front of your yeah it's it's part of the driveway and then I think a little bit of the of the land in front of our driveway yes yeah I'm trying to Fig and I was just trying to look more at um the ownership of the properties because I don't think these properties would affect that's not CU one of the properties encroaching on driveway to like into it he has like a shed on it right now sorry we're just trying to look here and see the ownership of which properties here it does appear the properties that are being referred to as this development or beyond the driveway yeah that's what I thought so the properties that the the uh the city owns the the Improvement Corporation those do not reach your driveway um the first two Lots at the corner of woodro in Maine the first so the the the lot that is at the corner of Wayne maine and woodro and then the next lot to the north those are not owned by the city right it is the third lot to the north that is owned by the city and that um that is beyond your driveway so that that would not have that easement on it do you can I see yeah sure shows it here yeah so these two lots the first two lots are not part of

the city's property it's the third lot off of wardro and so your driveways I was told that the EAS okay like right here okay so it's theirs yeah correct yeah I think there's an easement that runs along the pro all the properties but I think that's an I power easement or something I was told it was because that's there's a vacated alley okay yep that runs along there and so it appears that her driveway is what's left of the alley and that's why it overlaps for the rest of where the driveway doesn't exist the only remaining easements would be um by state law vacated roadway maintain utility eement so power company cable company gas company correct thank you Mr Young um and I'd also like to say too I know some people already know but we actually had a mining incident at our property um so that also concerns me a little bit with development of the other properties so a mine or was it a septic tank well they found a septic tank but the septic tank was 10 ft down okay and they still found mining remnants so they're still doing an investigation the M subsidence insurance or whatever is going to do two exploratory digs in the front of her property and the back of her property which involves me but that's just because the closest mapped mind is half a mile from our property correct

so just another concern that hey yeah we we live in an area with a lot of mins that are unmarked and we don't know where they are we run into it all the time but just a concern you know with developing on the properties and stuff and me and my husband have talked about it multiple times and how like it would be nice if the land that you guys want to turn into make it all one big thing would be like a community garden or something like that like we would be willing to buy the property back and turn it into a community garden so it wouldn't have to turn into some commercial property so that's all I wanted to say no thank you thank you for your concerns and your thoughts any other members from the public like to speak at this time any other questions comments from commission members okay what this time if there's no other comments or questions or comments from the city before we the only thing I'd like to add is I think what you've Mr SAR has alluded to too is by us controlling the land we can control the project and I something whatever goes comes before the planning committee it gives us that that control over it versus having another you know entity owning that and the city has no control over it other than what comes

before the Planning Commission if you follow what I'm trying to say by else controlling the land we can hopefully control the project that will come forward to make it beneficial for our community for that area uh so okay I just thought that uh just to share that thought there that um I think we have good safeguards and protection for our our our uh businesses that are located next to residences especially the example with u with comrades Tire the commission was very uh considerate about Lighting and Sound because there's a little house right next to it just on the west side and they came before the commission expressed their concerns about the safety and protection because I think that was for a uh a mother who that was her that's her home and that was where she wanted to stay but the safeguards were put in place so I I would like to think that the same thinking would go into consideration for whatever business or commercial development or what item might come before the commission to be be built there correct and I would add if I could just to build on the mayor's point that in addition to everything that he and Mr Young said um remotely that because in this case we're accepting the uh North Canton Community Improvement corporation's accepting proposals so in this case we really even have another layer of review because the commit uh the community Improvement Corporation can choose to reject proposals so we may have I'm just uh this is just hypothetical if we had three developers submit proposals we might uh that that the community Improvement Corporation might decide you

know none of these a good fit or maybe only one of these as a condition of the sale they could even have certain requirements about screening or buffering and so forth even before that comes to the Planning Commission so I just wanted to add that as well that there's there's really even an additional set I think of review that maybe normally doesn't isn't part of a a project that might ultimately come before the Planning Commission thank you Jason m i yes I want to just reiterate one thing you know the the Planning Commission is a non-paid commission we are here and the reason we are here is to represent the citizens of North campon so I believe all of us here takes this very seriously so whatever ends up happening in the future will be as long as I've been here on this I don't know how many years it's been now but we will look at it very seriously and we have the guidelines set up to protect the citizens of North Camp so when when there is a developer and a plat comes in front of us we will be inviting you and we will seriously discuss it exactly thank you Mr Sarah okay if there's no other comments or questions I would entertain a motion um on this agenda item I need to find

the okay so I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 01 d202 okay we have a motion for Mr Sarah for ordinance D or 0120255 thank you and just one comment for our public that may not understand the process um the Planning Commission makes their recommendation and then it does go to council so uh you will have an opportunity at Council if you would like to speak in regards to this matter as well so I just want to just bring that up for anyone in the public we have a if I have a question can I speak to anybody here uh one onone about any questions or do I have to wait till the next meeting to address questions um at this point I talk to J I would talk to your council member yes yes okay next on the agenda ordinance 02-2020 parcel in the city of North Canton in accordance with the amendment procedure set forth in chapter 1182 of the Planning and Zoning code from its existing classification to General business B okay Jason are you speaking on this

again I was going to defer to Mr ellworth but I can give you a quick yes we'll take we'll we'll start with you okay I didn't want to steal his Thunder that's okay um yeah this uh this is another zoning change um this property and I'm sure Mr Ellsworth will give uh a lot more detail and certainly about his plans for the property if the amendment is approved but this parcel um is adjacent to his other property which is in Plain Township this particular parcel does uh is in the city of North Canon it does have uh existing home uh that the petitioner owns um he's got a great business uh which we're very supportive uh of at uh City Hall and uh he's interested in potentially expanding the business in terms of commercial uh use and I'm sure he'll get into details the layout and how it relates to his other buildings and so forth but this parcel because it is in the city right now it's zoned r70 and uh from the city Administration ation standpoint it makes a lot of sense uh given that his other properties are commercial use um to rezone this property uh which you may see on the map is kind of landlocked anyway uh to rezone it for uh General business so we we are supportive of that and would recommend that you consider the re okay thank you all right U at this time anyone from the public like to speak on this issue name and address please and feel free hello I'm Jim Ellsworth um our address is 1607 East Maple Street business that's our business address uh my wife and I own Elsworth Autobot our our lot at 16 1607 East

Maple Street was acquired by my father 75 years ago we've been there ever since the lot directly to the north of us that we've acquired was part of the original lot of my dad purchased it so it was all one at one time in 1950 we've now acquired it it's a landlock piece of property that had original RightWay across the front lot which we own we are just trying to expand our business put up an additional building and continue to grow that's basically the gist of it um the property owners around it it were either us or Walsh University okay questions thank you yes at this time questions from commission members So currently it is residential yes r70 yes and it would then you're asking for it to become in general business correct which matches the other three Parcels that you have and right in that area yes okay the other Parcels are in Plain Township would the residence that's behind your business right now at the front of this said property continue to exist or no okay so where this where we're proposing we would take down that dwelling and put up a new building okay right now nobody lives in the property or anything like that either okay do we need to condition anything on that house being removed I mean can you

or can you grandfather a house in or how how do you address that residential home being on a commercial property so the home would uh become a non-conforming use so there would be some limitations on improvements and and restrictions on rebuild building uh we don't have a mechanism to place any conditions on the zoning Amendment uh however the zoning code will will address that inherently anyone else in the public like to speak on this matter no any other comments from uh officials I think it would be a wise uh move to assist this uh this business that's uh been established here for over 75 years okay and accommodate the the growth that uh he'll bring to that one section of the of our community slpl Township okay just my opinion thank you Mr Mayor if there's nothing else from the public uh would entertain a motion from commissioner members I would motion to approve as submitted uh second we have a motion from Mr milhousen a second from Mr Sarah let's call to vote Please Mr leage yes Mr Reed yes Mr Sarah yes Mr melon yes Mr Del yes all right thank you and I think that brings us to the end of our agenda items tonight I would enter entertain a motion to to adjourn motion to adjourn I will second