Sanctuary at the Lakes approved for rezoning in Genoa Township

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Dur­ing a Genoa Town­ship Trustee-Zoning pub­lic hear­ing on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 4, town­ship trustees approved a pro­posed rezon­ing and devel­op­ment plan sub­mit­ted by M/I Homes for 13 acres at the west­ern stub of Som­er­set Avenue and Lahinch Court.

The prop­erty will be rezoned from Rural Res­i­den­tial (RR) to Planned Res­i­den­tial (PRD) to pro­vide for the devel­op­ment of 23 single-family res­i­den­tial homes. The project is a part of a larger 209-home devel­op­ment that is pri­mar­ily located on adja­cent lands in Orange Township.

Mem­bers of the Orange Town­ship Zon­ing Com­mis­sion con­sid­ered rezon­ing of the remain­der of the project on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 11.

In other busi­ness, at the rec­om­men­da­tion of Genoa Town­ship Admin­is­tra­tor Paul Wise, the trustees moved to sup­port a County appli­ca­tion for an Ohio Inno­va­tion Grant to study County Emer­gency Med­ical Ser­vices (EMS).

Wise also sought the trustees’ sup­port of a grant appli­ca­tion to be sub­mit­ted to the Ohio Pub­lic Works Com­mis­sion (OPWC) for the improve­ment of Medal­lion Drive East. The grant would cover $192,600 of the project. The bal­ance of $67,800 will be evenly divided between Genoa Town­ship and the Delaware County Engineer’s Office. The trustees autho­rized Wise to sub­mit the appli­ca­tion and enter into any nec­es­sary agreements.

Larry Cooper was present and pre­sented the trustees with a request for approval of the Delaware, Knox, Mar­ion, Mor­row (DKMM) Solid Waste Man­age­ment Dis­trict Plan Update. The DKMM Solid Waste Dis­trict adopted the plan on June 26, 2012. After delib­er­a­tion, the trustees approved the plan by resolution.

Brett Berge­furd was present and pre­sented the trustees with an overview of the United States Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency’s fed­er­ally man­dated storm-water qual­ity reg­u­la­tions. The reg­u­la­tions apply to storm-water dis­charge from pub­lic facil­i­ties. Berge­furd dis­cussed the Phase II per­mit cycle includ­ing reg­u­la­tion of illicit dis­charge detec­tion and elim­i­na­tion, con­struc­tion site runoff, post con­struc­tion water qual­ity, pub­lic edu­ca­tion, pub­lic involve­ment and par­tic­i­pa­tion, as well as pol­lu­tion pre­ven­tion and good housekeeping.

Genoa Town­ship Police Chief Robert Tay­lor announced the dona­tion of $50 by Pat Sicle­heimer for the Police Department’s K-9 Fund; and Wise announced the dona­tion of $100 from Mei­jer and $100 from Kroger for the Genoa Town­ship Fam­ily Fish­ing Day on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, at 9 a.m.

The next reg­u­larly sched­uled meet­ing of the Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees is 7 p.m. on Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 20, at the Genoa Town­ship Hall, 5111 South Old 3C High­way, Westerville.

An updated list of meet­ings is avail­able on the Township’s web­site at < genoatwp.com >.

Posted by Gary Henery on Sep 12 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.