Planned Development District

The Pataskala Planning and Zoning Commission voted Wednesday night to recommend the city council approve the rezoning of 94 acres on the northeast corner of Ohio 310 and Refugee Road. Newark-based Southgate Corp., the same company that developed Etna Corporate Park on U.S. 40, wants the property rezoned from agricultural uses to a Planned Development District.

Resident Heather Sharpe told the commission she and her husband recently moved near the farm field that is on the 94 acres Southgate wants to develop."We moved out to the country to be in the country and not see lights and additional traffic and noise," Sharpe said.

Nearby resident Sue Bowles also objected to the rezoning. Bowles cited increased traffic on Ohio 310 and added policing requirements as reasons for her opposition. "To allow this development to take place now is equivalent to running up a credit card and not knowing how you're going to pay for it," Bowles said.

That not true Ms. Bowles they are going to steal the money from your school system.

In addition, O'Neill said the development would "substantially increase the Pataskala-area tax base through non-residential development."

Not to help the schools.