RSS
Twitter
Facebook
YouTubeThe Dispatch wroteAnnexation in Darby plain
Thursday, September 11, 2008
By Mark Ferenchik
The largest annexation in Franklin County in six years would be in the heart of the Big Darby Creek watershed.
Of the 493.6 acres that Hilliard plans to annex, all but 11 acres are in Brown Township and the Homewood Corp. owns 256 acres.
Officials at the Columbus-based development company said they have no plans to immediately begin building houses at Roberts and Alton & Darby Creek roads. However, when they do, they promise to comply with the Big Darby Accord's guidelines to protect the environmental quality of the creek, including an idea to relocate part of the Hamilton Run waterway.
Hilliard City Schools own 119.5 acres in the annexation area, where the third high school, Hilliard Bradley, is being built. A third property owner has another large tract north of the Homewood site.
It would be the largest single annexation in the county since Columbus annexed 508 acres in Washington Township in 2002. County commissioners must sign off on the annexation, but no date has been set of them to consider it.
Columbus Underground Messageboard » General Columbus Discussion
Annexation in Darby plain
[8 posts] [6 contributors]
Rate this topic:
-
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
Login to Send PM
Posted 3 years ago # -
gramarye
In Exile
Login to Send PM
ThisWeek wrote Meeks said the Homewood property will be a residential development.
"It's not going to be like anything you have ever seen in that area," he said. "This is going to be low density and there are requirements that 50 percent of the space be open space. There will be one house maximum per acre. When it does develop it is going to be spread out. It is going to be much more upscale because there will be fewer homes, so they will be more expensive homes."
On the one hand, you couldn't get more textbook sprawl than that.
On the other hand, given the furor over any development at all in the Big Darby area, I guess high-density mixed-use development with an eye towards future public transit was never in the cards, anyway. Higher density use does put more stress on the land that it's on. (It just also spares it elsewhere.)
Posted 3 years ago # -
KSquared
Literally Hell
Login to Send PM
We definitely need new build homes much more than we need to protect an endangered watershed that is home to biodiversity than cannot be found almost anywhere else. :(
Then again, I don't expect much from Hilliard given that I have heard Don Schonhardt call the Scioto river "that big drainage ditch".
Sigh.......
Posted 3 years ago # -
Rockmastermike
CORNspiracy HQ
Login to Send PM
KSquared wrote We definitely need new build homes much more than we need to protect an endangered watershed that is home to biodiversity than cannot be found almost anywhere else. :(
Then again, I don't expect much from Hilliard given that I have heard Don Schonhardt call the Scioto river "that big drainage ditch".
Sigh.......
I am far less concerned about biodiversity than I am about runoff into the drinking water supplies. Farm runoff is bad enough, but some of these suburban folks put some truly nasty stuff on their lawns.
Posted 3 years ago # -
KSquared
Literally Hell
Login to Send PM
Rockmastermike wrote
KSquared wrote We definitely need new build homes much more than we need to protect an endangered watershed that is home to biodiversity than cannot be found almost anywhere else. :(
Then again, I don't expect much from Hilliard given that I have heard Don Schonhardt call the Scioto river "that big drainage ditch".
Sigh.......
I am far less concerned about biodiversity than I am about runoff into the drinking water supplies. Farm runoff is bad enough, but some of these suburban folks put some truly nasty stuff on their lawns.
I agree with your concern - it's a very practical and valid one. Long term, however, our lack of biodiversity and our intent upon creating monocultures and eliminating any kind of competition, be it predators competing for food or mussels competing for clean water, is going to become more of a critical issue, although probably not in the same way that no clean drinking water will. There are larger implications than a few dead bivalves.
Posted 3 years ago # -
lifeliberty
Here
Login to Send PM
I think hilliard just wants to build around an already in place natural sewage system. :lol:
Posted 3 years ago # -
Rockmastermike
CORNspiracy HQ
Login to Send PM
KSquared wrote [
I agree with your concern - it's a very practical and valid one. Long term, however, our lack of biodiversity and our intent upon creating monocultures and eliminating any kind of competition, be it predators competing for food or mussels competing for clean water, is going to become more of a critical issue, although probably not in the same way that no clean drinking water will. There are larger implications than a few dead bivalves.
oh yeah, I totally agree. The water is more of my field of experience though.
Posted 3 years ago #
You must log in to post.
Launched in August 2010, TheMetropreneur.com is a local online resource devoted to small business development and entrepreneurship. Its aim is to tell the stories of Central Ohio's business community, foster regional economic development and assist entrepreneurs with its resource-heavy focus.