The company does not have a firm development plan for the property, but a preliminary site concept submitted to the city showed a three-story building offering 66 new housing units.
Additionally, an adjacent, vacant church property also is being targeted for redevelopment into an events center.
The Dayton Plan Board last week recommended approval of a zoning map amendment that would allow the property at Old Troy Pike and Needmore Road to be redeveloped into multi-family housing.
The site is presently zoned suburban single-family residential. Oberer wants that changed to suburban multi-family.
Oberer has owned the vacant property for more than 30 years, and the zoning change will allow the company to begin marketing it and exploring its potential for a multi-unit housing project, said Greg Smith, developer with the Oberer Companies in Miamisburg.
“Recently, we’ve been looking closer at it, and we do believe it could potentially serve for a small, multi-family-type building,” he said.
Oberer said the entrance to the development would be on Needmore Road, and a new walking path would be built that exits on Old Troy Pike. The company says its plans would include a retention pond.
Needmore Road is a busy roadway, and if the zoning map amendment is approved, the developer would be required to work with city engineering staff to create a left-turn lane so vehicles can safely exit the property, said Jennifer Lumpkin, a city planner.
The rezoning case will head to the Dayton City Commission for consideration, likely in September.
City planning staff recommended approval of the zoning map amendment, and the Northeast Priority Land Use Board unanimously voted in support of the change.
The area has a fair amount of vacant land, though there are single-family homes and commercial properties nearby, along Old Troy Pike. The subject property is wooded and hilly.
Oberer recently moved one step closer to creating a new subdivision across the road, on the east side of Old Troy Pike.
That’s because the city commission decided to allow a separate zoning request to move forward, which would allow for the construction of 256 detached, single-family homes on farm land.
Also, the owner of an adjacent property, a church recreation center at 4475 Old Troy Pike, wants to convert the building into a special events center.
The owner has requested a variance from the city to use the building as an assembly hall. Dayton’s Board of Zoning Appeals is expected to consider the request later this month.
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