WHAT: Beavercreek City Council meeting
WHEN: 6 p.m., Sept. 12
WHERE: Council chambers in city hall located at 1368 Research Park Drive, Beavercreek
CONTACT: City of Beavercreek 937-427-5500
The city council will vote on the rezoning application for the Cottages of Beavercreek, a proposed controversial patio home development on County Line Road, Monday night.
Monday’s vote comes less than a week after the city planning commission unanimously approved, 4-0, the site plan for the development on Sept. 7. Beavercreek Planning Commission Chair Michael Self recused himself from discussion on the issue and the vote.
If the city council approves the rezoning application and site plan, the Cottages will mark Charles Simms Development's third housing project in Beavercreek.
Initial plans for the Cottages included 93 units, but the number of units has been scaled down, Simms told the planning commission.
“This plan has 85 because that’s all that fits at the moment with some of the adjustments we’ve made with the mounding and I won’t say concessions I will say fine tuning of the plans,” he said.
Before the planning commission vote on Wednesday, several neighboring residents voiced opposition to the project citing traffic safety concerns.
Kevin Kreitzer has lived in his Woodland Terrace home for almost three decades and is worried that a proposed emergency access road will bring additional unwanted traffic to his neighborhood.
“The road conditions are narrow back there,” he said to the planning commission. “Like you heard before, there’s a tree on one corner. Somebody zips through there, they’re going to run right into that tree … We don’t want the traffic. ”
Dave Rose, a Highview Terrace resident, said he was concerned about the safety of neighborhood children.
“One of the things that keeps our neighborhood nice is we don’t have through traffic,” he said. “It’s safe for the kids to play.”
Residents are worried their neighborhood will become a cut through for people wanting to avoid lights on County Line Road.
“It’s going to become a traffic nightmare,” said Pat Kibler. “Even if it’s just an access road, people find out about it and use it.”
Cut through traffic will be minimized with collapsible bollards or a gate, according to city staff.
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