In 2018, Summit County officials completed the work of many years and updated the East County Planning Code.
Last week, Development Director Pat Putt reviewed some recent activity on the East Side, in the wake of those revisions.
Concerning new applications that have come to his office, Putt said they recently got a proposed Master Plan for the Chalk Creek area.
“Not a big one but again it sorts of begins to point to property owners beginning to exercise some of the tools that we put into the code about a year ago when council updated the zoning map and the code,” Putt explained. “This particular application it’s about 13 acres, property is currently zoned Agricultural 5 which is a one dwelling unit per five acres. There’s a request to rezone that to a new zone which is R2.5 which would allow for one unit per two and a half acres.”
Meanwhile, the County Council recently held a joint session with the East County Planning Commission. Putt said the direction from both groups is for the staff to get working on a re-write of the East Side General Plan.
He said that document was last revised about six years ago. They planned on an annual review, but that hasn’t happened.
“We haven’t done that and the answer to that why is that we’ve been busy re-writing the code and amending the zoning map,” Putt said. “Now that’s behind us, now that we’ve got about a year of testing some of the new amendments and changes, we want to go back and see what’s been accomplished. Beyond that we want to begin to examine what needs to be put into that general plan to help us prepare for the future. That’s really the big outcome of that meeting. We’re going to beginning that process. We talked about that process involving reaching out not only to the citizenry over here on the east side the property owners but to the municipalities as well. Kind of the theme is let’s not try and surprise anybody. Let’s work together at the outset.”
