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WHAT: City of Beavercreek Planning Commission meeting
WHEN: 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 1
WHERE: Beavercreek city hall, 1368 Research Park Drive in Beavercreek
CONTACT: Call the City of Beavercreek, 937-426-5100, for more information.
More retail and a apartment building could be coming to Beavercreek if plans for these projects are approved by the city council.
The city planning commission will hold public hearings, today, related to plans for both projects, before consideration moves to council.
The apartments — The Lux — would include 100 units in the Hibiscus Way and Park Overlook Drive area. The new apartments would be located near the Lofts at Willow Creek.
The Lux is a modification to the initial site plan for College Park South which had about 166,000 square feet that would be used for three professional office buildings. One office building has been built and is now being used by Riverside Research.
“Since the plan was already half put into effect, we just did a major modification to that existing plan,” said Sandra Pereira, an associate city planner.
Plans for the new multi-family building come during a time when there appears to be more people selecting apartment homes compared to single family homes for various reasons such as economics, said Beavercreek Planning Commission Vice Chair Daniel Archibald.
“One of the things that’s really important to keep in mind is that while there seems to be a lot of activity in the apartment complex multi-family housing arena today, it really isn’t turning Beavercreek into a apartment community,” he said. “We take very seriously and very carefully consider where those apartments are going to go and whether or not they’re being overbuilt as apartments instead of single family homes. The other thing we take into consideration is if there’s a market for these types of homes.”
It’s important to have a mix of new, existing, multi- and single-family homes to keep Beavercreek a desirable community, Archibald said.
“It’s all about balance,” he said. “We try to make sure we aren’t going down the path of one particular type of housing as far as our residential zoning land use.”
The planning commission will also hold a public hearing on a 7,440 square foot multi-tenant retail building on 1.05 acres of land on the south side of Dayton-Xenia Road near the North Fairfield Road intersection.
The site, which is currently vacant, would be divided into four separate spaces for tenants.
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