Bath Township Board of Zoning Appeals is a group that reviews applications for zoning variances in Bath Township. Their decisions are not heard or confirmed by our elected Trustees.
It was just approved by the Bath Board of Zoning Appeals to allow the construction of a new commercial building at the entrance to Country Club Hills/Twin Lakes on State Route 309. Plans include a tri-plex retail business building and electronic signage that will replace the small office building currently occupied by Acheson Realty.
Proponents of the planned new building cited the need for an entrance to the property via Devonshire Drive in order to eliminate the dangerous left turn from 309 into the property. With only the slightest of majority votes by this board, this was approved.
Detractors to this proposed improvement pointed to the Covenants and Restrictions in place for the neighborhood, the potential for increased traffic on the already busy Devonshire Drive, and the added dangers associated with electronic signage at an already dangerous intersection. All concerns were considered according to a second-hand account of the hearing held by the Bath Board of Zoning Appeals. It was made clear that this property and the proposed larger building are an improvement for the area and concerns otherwise should be tempered.
Whether you are for or against this happening in our neighborhood doesn't matter....it will happen, and could be so as early as Spring 2016.
