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Sorry Richard
Your comments about the Trustees could not be more off base. I'd suggest that you attend a couple meetings that the township offices and get better educated with your elected officials. I'll find that while they love to beat their chests for their precious fire department, their favorite phrase is ''we don't have any money, let the city take care of that''. I can guarantee that you will hear this, or some rendition there of, at least once per trustee meeting.
And the trustees managing growth? That's a laugh. Of all the trustees, how many of them own hundreds of acres that they can't wait to sell off to some developer and pump even more kids into the schools and more cars onto the roads?
Go to a meeting and ask them. Then come back here and tell us what you learned.
By Frank
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Myth busters
Getting my facts straight might be good advice for yourself.
The Trustees only received an empty promise for the 15 or 16 acres at Sycamore Creek for the schools. It is well documented that the developer did not turn the land over to the school district until former Mayor Lou Postage intervened. The property was transferred to the School district on March 28th 2003.
A couple of years ago I was looking at density and I believe you are wrong in saying that Sycamore Creek was platted at 1.98 lots per acre in the Township. The City of Pickerington has it listed at 2.73 units per acre. I believe that Spring Creek is near 2.7 lots per acre and that definitely was platted and started in the Township. That entire sub-division is screwed up because of access issues and other problems.
The Ricketts have applied to the RPC to get the final plat approval on 334 new lots and I believe that will be an extension of the current Spring Creek sub-division. This is the same family that pushed the two lots per acre in the City. It appears that the large land owners like to deal with the trustees so they can cut corners like we have seen in other township sub-divisions.
Then there is the Big Box deal at Pickerington Road and Refugee Road. After completing an new updated land use plan in 2004/2005 the Trustees ignored the $80,000 they spent on the study and are ready to get into bed with this big box developer. The fact is they have no plans for improving the roads and they have no plans for police protection. The developer Cleary states they want a TIF. For those in the Township always ragging on the City how does that help the schools and the Fire department?
If you read the report from the Regional Planning Commission there has been no planning for widening Refugee and Pickerington Roads. The County Engineer has not got any of that infrastructure included in his CIP which means help from the state is 8 years away at a minimum.
I have heard the Trustees will approve the zoning change regardless of the recommendations of the Zoning Commission.
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more myth busting.....
More Myth Busting......
The Sycamore Creek site ''donated'' to the schools has some strings.
It reverts back to the developer if a school isn't constructed there by Dec 23, 2010.
Nice Christmas gift for the community. I've heard that apartments will be constructed there if a school isn't.
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REPLY TO MYTHBUSTER
Why shouldn't the City enforce the Sycamore Creek donation? They took over the project before it even got started. Mayor Postage was doing what he should do when the City took control.
As to Spring Creek, it is definitely zoned at 1.98 houses per acre, as a Planned District. As to a road going through the subdivision from Milnor to Pickerington Roads, there is no direct road that way. It is sad that someone who obviously looks up facts cannot report the facts correctly, you just make them fit what you want.
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