Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
October 12, 2004
8:00 PM

The Violet Township Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing on October 12, 2004 at 8:00 p.m. at the Violet Township Administrative Offices, 12970 Rustic Drive, Pickerington, Ohio 43147, to consider the application filed by H & G LLC, 75 E. Wilson Bridge Road, Worthington Ohio 43085, to rezone property owned by H & G LLC and Alfred and Maria Allert. This application proposes to amend the Violet Township Zoning Code by amending the Violet Township Zoning Map, to rezone 109 +/- acres located on the north side of Refugee Road, west of Tollgate Road, east of Pickerington Road, parcel numbers: 036-0088500, 036-0088510 and 036-0089210 from the R-1 and R-2 Single Family Residential Districts to the PD Planned Residential District in order to accommodate a 145-lot single family subdivision.

The application to amend the Zoning Code is available for examination from September 27, 2004 through October 13, 2004, inclusive, Mondays through Fridays, excluding legal holidays, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Violet Township Administrative Offices, 12970 Rustic Drive, Pickerington, Ohio 43147. The person responsible for giving notice of this public hearing by publication is Kelly Sarko, Violet Township Zoning Inspector.

VIOLET TOWNSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Jim Van Kannel, Clerk
Kelly Sarko, Violet Township Zoning Inspector

VIOLET TOWNSHIP ZONING COMMISSION
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
October 19, 2004 - 7:30 PM

The Violet Township Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on October 19, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. at the Violet Township Administrative Offices, 12970 Rustic Drive, Pickerington, Ohio 43147, to consider the application filed by Dominion Homes, 5000 Tuttle Crossing Blvd, Dublin, Ohio to rezone property owned by John T. and Rita J. Rickets, 340 Hill Road, Pickerington, Ohio. This application proposes to amend the Violet Township Zoning Code by amending the Violet Township Zoning Map, to rezone 173 +/- acres located on the north and south sides of Refugee Road, east of Pickerington Road, and including frontage on the east side of Pickerington Road, parcel numbers: 036-0003800, 036-0005870 and 036-0090400 from the R-1 and R-2 Single Family Residential Districts to the PD Planned Residential District in order to accommodate a 335-lot single family subdivision.

The application to amend the Zoning Code is available for examination from October 4, 2004 through October 19, 2004, inclusive, Mondays through Fridays, excluding legal holidays, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Violet Township Administrative Offices, 12970 Rustic Drive, Pickerington, Ohio 43147. The person responsible for giving notice of this public hearing by publication is Kelly Sarko, Violet Township Zoning Inspector.

The person responsible for giving notice of the public hearing by publication is Kelly Sarko. After the conclusion of the public hearing, the matter will be submitted to the Violet Township Board of Trustees for its action.

Violet Township Zoning Commission
John Biancamano, Chairman
Kelly Sarko, Zoning Inspector

Who stands corrected now?

I reference my posting on 8/3. I then reference the Anonymous rebuttal of 8/13 where they said everything I posted was false.

Hmmmm. Now I wonder..........

Another cool million or so. WAY TO GO!!!

By Dripping wet AND hopping mad

What is the difference?

I'm sure this has been answered before but could someone clarify the difference between R-1 & R-2 zoning versus PD Planned Development? Which classification allows the most lots? What are the pros & cons of each?

By lin

difference

In Violet Township, R-1 equals a 20,000 sq ft lot, R-2 requires a 30,000 sq ft lot. Why the numbers are indicated this way is anyones guess as it would seem that R-2 is less dense thus should be the larger lot. Keep in mind these classifications are from the 1970's there may be changes soon.

A Planned Unit Development, or PD allows different lot sizes and mixed use developments including aparments and commercial. Thus far in the township ,they have only allowed PD's in the recent 8 years of so that I have been following the zoning trends. PD's are prefered even if the development has only single family homes for the following reasons:
1. A PD sets the lot sizes and home sq footages directly in the zoning, in other words, you know what you are going to get right up front. Any variance form the plan must go to the zoning board of appeals to be approved and ultimately voted on by the trustees. You see this attempt alot as far as setbacks are concerned as developers continue to ctram bigger homes on smaller lots. Lately the board of apppeals has been rejecting these changes. I believe this will encourage developers to do their homework upfront, know the market and come in with better developments if they know that variances are hard to come by.


2. A PD requires 15% of the land to be used as public use organized greenspace, parks etc creating communities not just subdivisions. For example, the massive Summerfield subdivision was built using traditional zoning classes mostly and although nearly 1000 homes were built, no park areas were created. In contrast a development like Ashley Creek, a PD only has 125 homes but has three parks for public use, ditto for Meadowmoore.

3. Deed restrictions are incorporated directly into the PD, so it there is a violation, the Township does have recourse to correct the violation if in fact the Civic Association does not prevail.

5. Currnetly the PD requires that lot sizes in areas bordering low density zoning be compatible, creating sort of a puzzle effect with larger lots abutting more rural zoning and smaller lots buffered by these larger lots more toward the center of the development. It also requires 100 foot buffer zones that are no build zones as far as home expansions, sheds or any type of construction near more rural zoning.

4. there is an advantage to the developer also, if the land has a lot of streams, wooded wetlands, poor soil, etc, if he used traditional lot size zoning, he would probably lose some lots because they are unbuildable. In a PD, he can shift greenway floodplains or other areas like this into the required 15% of green space and build on another area with smaller lots than allowed by traditional lot size zoning. This maximizes the land development potential in most cases, but not all.