It doesn’t appear like a Fenton-area couple’s plans to maneuver their garden care enterprise will take root.
Terry and Kelly Obermiller requested the county to rezone half of a 10-acre lot close to Diehl and Previous Sugar Creek roads within the Jefferson County portion of Fenton from residential to deliberate business growth. They deliberate to maneuver their Real Garden Care enterprise from 38 E. Lakewood, additionally within the Fenton space.
“We’ve been in enterprise for 20 years,” stated Terry Obermiller. “We’ve been wanting throughout for a spot to increase. This place is on the opposite aspect of the hill the place we reside. It could be excellent for us.”
The Jefferson County Council, which has the only authority to rezone property in unincorporated areas, voted unanimously Oct. 24 to approve a decision to disclaim the Obermillers’ utility.
The Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Fee, which advises the County Council on rezoning issues, had voted 5-0 on Oct. 13 to advocate denial of the Obermillers’ request.
On the Oct. 13 assembly earlier than the P and Z board, Terry Obermiller stated he and his spouse have a contingency contract to buy the 10-acre property, which isn’t developed and is basically flat. Nonetheless, it’s surrounded by houses on bigger heaps, which was a degree introduced up by Ashley Nagle, who lives on Previous Sugar Creek Street and was the only particular person to talk towards the request.
“I’m involved about privateness,” she stated. “I’m involved about security and folks coming out and in to this enterprise that I don’t even know. I’d reasonably have a home there than a enterprise with staff and clients. There are many companies in Excessive Ridge that individuals can go to.”
Nagle stated visitors generated by the enterprise additionally was a priority.
“You don’t understand how busy it’s and the way many individuals run the cease signal (at Diehl and Previous Sugar Creek). Then you definitely add in a enterprise and folks coming and going,” she stated. “You’re including noise.”
Dave Vonarx of VonArx Engineering in Hillsboro, who represented the Obermillers, stated Real Garden Care is a small firm, with most of its enterprise executed off-site.
“It could generate perhaps 10 to fifteen journeys day by day, roughly 20 % of what might be generated if the lot had been developed absolutely below the present residential zoning,” he stated. “A enterprise wouldn’t lead to college buses being added to the combo.”
Vonarx additionally identified that the county has extra management over a deliberate business growth than the present residential zoning.
“So far as noise is anxious, it’s not a high-intensity use,” he stated. “It’s a garden care enterprise. They might hold their merchandise and gear on web site, however many of the work is finished at their shoppers’ houses.”
Terry Obermiller stated that if the enterprise had been allowed to maneuver to the brand new location, he deliberate to double his worker rolls from 5 to 10 staff.
“Can we depart it like it’s or will you permit us to place one thing good there?” he stated.
