Planning Commission Discusses Changes to Zoning Map
Changes to the City of Chardon’s zoning code advanced Feb. 27 after the Chardon Planning Commission voted in favor of a zoning map amendment.
Changes to the City of Chardon’s zoning code advanced Feb. 27 after the Chardon Planning Commission voted in favor of a zoning map amendment.
The proposed changes to Part 11 of the city’s zoning code were first introduced at the Jan. 23 meeting. The code has not been updated in 14 years, said Community Development Administrator Steve Yaney.
“City of Chardon is proposing a zoning map amendment. As you will recall, at the last meeting, we had approved the changes to the zoning code,” commission Chair Andrew Blackley said, noting this meant the map now had to change.
Per the amendment, C-1 Restricted Business District and RC Rural Conservation District will both be eliminated. Anything currently zoned as C-1 will be reclassified as C-3 Traditional Commercial District, and RC will be reclassified to S Special District.
Changes will also be made to the zoning of the Chardon Park Estates and the properties that border it on South Hambden Street. All properties zoned R-4 High Density Residence District within this area will be changed to the newly-created R-3CPE Chardon Park Estates Residential District.
Yaney noted the map is being proposed a month after the text amendment was sent to city council for approval in case any changes were made as part of that process.
He also explained what the proposed map does not do.
“It does not reclassify anything to a high density or multi-family residence district. It does not reclassify any residentially-zoned property to commercial or industrial. And it does not reclassify any commercial or industrial property to a residential zoning district,” he said.
A public hearing regarding both the text amendment and map will be held in council chambers at 111 Water Street at 6:20 p.m. March 14. Both the text amendment and zoning map can be found on the city’s website, www.chardon.cc.
