Middlefield Village Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved several lot splits and consolidations Aug. 6 for properties beside and behind the Middlefield Municipal Center and Middlefield Volunteer Fire Department.
Middlefield Village Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved several lot splits and consolidations Aug. 6 for properties beside and behind the Middlefield Municipal Center and Middlefield Volunteer Fire Department.
Village businessman and Geauga County Commissioner Ralph Spidalieri requested setbacks and a side-yard variance for three parcels — two that he owns and for part of the fire department property he intends to buy.
He also requested lot coverage of 75%.
The variances are all contingent on the sale of the unused, back corner of fire department property.
Spidalieri, who filed the requests with the zoning commission July 1, attended the meeting.
“I just want to get this part of it done,” he said.
The irregularly-shaped parcels are bound by North State Avenue and the Maple Highlands Trail.
Spidalieri owns the 0.8-acre parcel at 14842 North State Ave. north of the municipal center, including part of the center’s parking lot. There is a house on that parcel.
He also owns a 2.4-acre parcel to the north and has plans to buy almost an acre from the fire department, then divide it to add on to the west sides of his other two properties, according to the Aug. 6 agenda.
Village Zoning Inspector John Boksansky said he talked to a fire department official who told him the sale is pending MVFD board of trustees’ approval.
He explained the process by which the parcel plats can be signed and deeds can be prepared with the changes before being recorded.
Spidalieri did not say what his plans are for the properties, but planning commission Chairman Scott Klein thanked him.
“We appreciate the cleanup of everything, Ralph,” he said.
Spidalieri also owns a 5.42-acre parcel at 14855 North State that includes a hunting goods store and a shopping plaza.
In other business, the commission did not object to a stormwater easement for the Hartville Hardware store under construction at 15260 Kinsman Road on the west end of the village.
Hartville Hardware Inc. has submitted plans for an 80,000-square-foot store on more than 20 acres. The property will have a stormwater retention pond, but wants an easement to install infrastructure to handle stormwater overflow, taking it off the property into Middlefield Township to a pond owned by Chuck White.
Sherpa Development Company LLC, putting up the Hartville store, asked for an okay from the village for the easement, Boksansky said.
