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Hat's off to P&Z!!
We all owe a huge thank you to the Planning and Zoning commission for bringing Giant Eagle into the city of Pickerington. They worked many, many long hours trying to come to terms with the developer over this project.
And the best thing is that each of these people is a VOLUNTEER!!! They get paid nothing to give up their time away from their families and their paying jobs to devote to making the city a better place.
Remember that as you patronize this new additional to Hill Road. Remember that people like Mayor Dave and Manager Judy will take all the credit, but did little more than the jobs they were either hired or elected to do in the first place. The real masterminds get nothing more than a sense of personal satifaction for being a part of the process.
By Thankful
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That is what true service is
''Remember that as you patronize this new additional to Hill Road. Remember that people like Mayor Dave and Manager Judy will take all the credit, but did little more than the jobs they were either hired or elected to do in the first place. The real masterminds get nothing more than a sense of personal satifaction for being a part of the process.''
If you take pleasure in your service on P and Z, congratulations...but if you really do maybe you should not have to put the negative in the statement and just take pleasure in your service.
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Taj Mahal's image
So we don't allow a tax generating corporation because it will hurt the image of the Taj Mahal?
Should we build ginger bread houses with yellow brick roads around it?
The rooftops are going to continue in the city, township, and wherever else in our school district. It can't be stopped, nor should it be. There will be plenty of people to support all of the stores.
If you stop the NON RESIDENTIAL TAX GENERATING development in our Township then you deserve what you get. Even more crowding in our schools and louder CRYING for more money from the HOME OWNERS to support them.
I think those people in Groveport might have a good idea.
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be patience
First I think you all need to take a look at History so that as a community we don't repeat the mistakes of uncontrolled retail box building and end up with a blighted area. In the mid-60s before I was born, south Hamilton Road where the current Eastland Shopping Center is was a huge Dairy Farm in the Groveport Madison school district. Today many of the stores that line Hamilton Road sit empty with no one to rent them. Despite the efforts of Kaufman's to redevelop the Eastland Mall, I understand they will be consolidating their Macy's store into their New Kaufman's store on the grounds. Many of those stores have been recycled more than once.
In the 70s when I was a small child, the accident king of central Ohio was the corner of Refugee and Hamilton Roads. Its only competition was some intersection up on Morse Road. So now look at Morse Road and Hamilton Road. Even the office buildings which produce more tax income than retail stand empty. Empty buildings will do nothing for the tax base of either a school district or the government body within that area that controls the land use. For those of you in your early 30s and for the sake of your children now do you want to repeat what Madison Township did with Eastland Mall and their Dairy Farm of the 60s and simply change the names of the principles to a Ricketts grain farm and Violet Township.
Now how long has it taken the Brice/Gender roads area to become blighted? Penny's outlet was built in the early 70s and look at the area now, gridlock and vacant stores.
As someone that has worked very close with the real estate market for years I know the very amenities that attract and make property valuable for retail shops and big boxes stores are the very same amenities that make them un-rentable in a very short time cycle. The rise and fall of Eastland Mall and Northland Mall point this out if you are willing to have a realistic view of the market.
The Fairfield County Regional Planning Commission has recommended not to change the zoning on this property. Simply put the county can't afford the needed infrastructure to support this property. I also doubt that the developers are willing to build any needed infrastructure because there is so much needed at this time.
The other option is to have the township pass a bond issue to build the required roads and other needed infrastructures and then hope they can reclaim or offset their investments with the property taxes collected on these new stores before they move on to route 310 or where ever. The threat that is coming to us now is if we don't play ball with the developers they will just take their marbles and go to 310.
I think the policy we should work for and maintain is slow the residential growth and only allow zoning for the area that the locals can support for a long term plan. These retail boxes over 50,000 square feet are not always in our best interest.
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