[0:00] Okay,
[0:03] » welcome to the Municipality Monroeville
Planning Commission meeting of August
[0:06] 19th, 2026. If we could stand for the
pledge of allegiance and a moment of
[0:11] silence.
>> I pledge [clears throat] allegiance to
[0:14] the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
[0:20] one nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
[0:27] » [clears throat]
[0:36] » Okay,
Sharon, if you could do the roll call,
[0:40] please.
>> Mrs. Montgomery,
[0:43] » here.
>> Mrs. Lawrence,
[0:45] » here.
>> Mr. Walker,
[0:46] » here.
>> Mrs. Lewis Burke,
[0:48] » here.
>> Mr. Seagullen.
[0:51] » Miss Seaman
>> here.
[0:52] » Mr. Prugnell.
>> Mr. Welden
[0:55] » here.
[0:58] Okay, thank you. We do not have the
minutes yet for the meeting of July
[1:04] 15th, so we will approve those next
month. And Paul, if you want to do the
[1:08] new business.
>> Okay, our first item tonight is 265C,
[1:12] the learning nest.
Applicant is requesting conditional use
[1:16] approval pursuant to article 5 section
504N
[1:20] child care center principal use of the
Monroval zoning ordinance number 2779 as
[1:25] amended to permit the operation of a
child daycare business. The property is
[1:29] located at 2640 Pickaran Road and
identified as tax parcel 857B238
[1:36] in the BLVD Boulevard zoning district.
And I believe we have the applicant here
[1:43] who will tell us about her [cough]
business.
[1:51] » Hello. I'm Lisa Whitney. I'm the
architect and uh this is uh Robert
[1:56] Ratundo. He is the business owner.
>> Did you sign in? Did you both
[2:01] » We did. We both signed this paper.
>> Um so uh the the building is an existing
[2:08] structure. Um and um the owner has
purchased the building to expand an
[2:14] existing daycare facility that he has.
So he already has a license to operate a
[2:19] daycare. It's it's actually in
Monroeville that his existing uh
[2:23] building. And um I there are 14 um
use there are 14 criteria associated
[2:33] with the special exception. And I I I
don't know if you would like to do it
[2:38] this way, but if if you would, I can go
through all of those criteria and show
[2:42] the way that we're meeting them.
>> You don't have to. If you just want to
[2:45] summarize that, that would be fine.
[laughter]
[2:48] » Okay. So, um so I guess some of the
primary um criteria are related to
[2:53] things like um the ingress and egress,
making sure that you don't cause any
[2:58] backups. Um and and we do have a very
wide 30 foot wide driveway, so it does
[3:04] allow for two-way traffic. Um we have
areas both in the front and the rear of
[3:09] the building where people can pull over
to drop off and pick up their children.
[3:14] Um we're required to have 11 parking
spaces, but we have 16. This is this is
[3:19] all provided in the documents that you
have. Um there is no overnight night um
[3:25] or drop in care, which is one of the
criteria. Um
[3:31] uh the play area um is required to be
screened um and and to be required to be
[3:39] in the rear of the building which is we
um provided all as far back in the rear
[3:44] of the building as we have uh a play
area that has a 4ft high fence with a
[3:49] self-latching gate. Um also the dumpster
is required to be masonry and screened.
[3:55] Um that's existing. We're going to use
the existing dumpster location. Um
[4:01] there's a criteria related to a child
care center located within 2,000 ft of
[4:07] this building. So there Kinderare is the
next parcel over, but Kinderare is
[4:12] closed. So I don't think that that
counts as an existing daycare. Um and um
[4:20] we are not near any uh sexually oriented
businesses in this district. Did you did
[4:24] you bring one of your plans?
>> I I did bring a copy and I just it's the
[4:28] same plan you already have. I just made
some notes about some dimensions.
[4:32] » Okay.
>> In case you asked any questions. And I
[4:34] did also bring the floor plan uh that we
submitted for plan review. Um and we
[4:40] have a preliminary plan review that
that's pretty promising. We needed to
[4:44] provide the license proof of license and
things like that, but um for the most
[4:48] part um we met the the building codes.
>> You can take that plan and set it on the
[4:52] on the tabletop. There's like a an X.
Set it there and there's a camera in the
[4:56] ceiling that'll pick it up and put it on
the monitor.
[4:59] » If you need if you need a clean copy,
you can use mine. I mean, it just has
[5:02] some dimensions. I don't I
[clears throat] didn't say anything
[5:04] secret.
>> So, you can just point out the building,
[5:06] the road, and the parking lot.
>> So, um, Peron Road is the road that it
[5:10] enters from. Um, and then this is the
driveway, which again is 30 ft wide. Um,
[5:15] and as you come up towards the rear of
the site, you pass the building here,
[5:19] which is an existing two-story masonry
structure. Um, you go beyond that, and
[5:25] that accesses the 16 space parking lot,
which does include handicapped
[5:30] accessible parking. Um, as close as as
we could put it to the entry to the
[5:36] building, um, the upper entry. So,
there's a lower entry and an upper
[5:39] entry. Their intention is to use the
upper one as the primary entrance. Um,
[5:43] but it does provide for um, you know,
um, an emergency exit on the first
[5:48] floor, too. Uh,
>> and if you want to put this up, this is
[5:52] just a a Google image. It'll sometimes
the color helps show things. It'll show
[5:57] the existing building, existing parking
lot
[5:59] » on top of it.
>> You want me to take this?
[6:00] » You just you just put it right on top.
It doesn't matter.
[6:04] » I'll zoom in. Yeah,
>> I might be upside down.
[6:08] » So, in this case, Parin Road is here.
Uh this is our driveway. This is the
[6:14] building we were discussing. Parking
lot. Um also play structure will be back
[6:19] here at the back of the parking lot.
That dumpster is already existing sort
[6:23] of off to the side and it it is um a
masonry structure. Um so it provides a
[6:28] visual buffer to the neighbor.
Um I don't I don't think that there are
[6:35] any other significant criteria, but I do
have um I did go through the the special
[6:42] exception criteria um and I verified
that we met all of them. Uh so if you
[6:48] have any questions, I can provide those
answers.
[6:52] » What are the hours of operation?
>> Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 6
[6:57] p.m.
>> The same as our other center. We just
[6:59] outgrew that center. Um, so we're on
Mossai 2553 Mosai. That's going to be
[7:05] the baby daycare zero to two. And this
is going to be the older children.
[7:09] » I wondered why it said upper school. So
this is the
[7:12] » That makes sense. Yeah.
>> Yes. [laughter] And then how many stu or
[7:16] children?
>> We have 64 at our other center.
[7:18] » And then what's your anticipation here?
Same.
[7:21] » Um, no. This building's a little bit
bigger. Okay. So I'm hoping for a little
[7:24] bit more.
>> All right. I can see what we can what
[7:27] the code says. Okay.
I hope I can read it.
[7:33] [clears throat]
[7:35] » Yeah. So, based on the occupancy that
for the state, um, they could have up to
[7:41] 70 kids with 15 adults.
>> Okay.
[7:44] » Presumably.
>> All right.
[7:49] » Any other questions?
[7:52] » No.
[clears throat]
[7:55] » I get a motion to approve.
>> Motion to approve.
[7:58] » I'll second. All right. All
>> in favor?
[8:01] » I I
>> Thank you.
[8:02] » You're approved.
>> Thank you.
[8:04] » All right. So, uh you you'll move on to
council. It'll be the first Tuesday and
[8:08] the second Tuesday in September. And
I'll send you a letter tomorrow.
[8:14] » Good luck.
>> Uh you can have them.
[8:18] » Thanks, guys.
>> Thank you.
[8:19] » Thank you.
>> I didn't realize the other room was
[8:23] closed.
>> I didn't realize it was either. Okay.
[8:32] We ready for the next item? Yep.
>> Yes.
[8:35] » Okay. So, the next two items is the same
applicant. One's a site plan, one's a
[8:39] conditional use. I'll read them both
into the uh uh into record and we can
[8:45] act [clears throat] on them
independently or together. 264 ST
[8:50] McDonald property. Applicant is
requesting site plan approval pursuant
[8:53] to Monrovville zoning ordinance number
2779.
[8:56] as amended to permit the construction
and operation of a tattoo parlor and
[9:00] associated site amenities. The property
is located along Old Frankstown Road and
[9:05] identified as tax parcel 741D042
in the M1 planned industrial zoning
[9:11] district. The conditional use part of
the application
[9:15] is 26 C or 266C
McDonald property.
[9:22] Applicant is requesting conditional use
approval pursuant to article 5
[9:25] conditional use section KK KKK tattoo
parlor/body piercing studio of the
[9:32] Monroval zoning ordinance number 2779 is
amended to permit the operation of a
[9:37] tattoo parlor. The property is located
along Old Frankstown Road and identified
[9:40] as tax parcel 741D042
in the M1 planned industrial zoning
[9:45] district.
[9:49] » Good evening. My name is John Swearing
and I'm with the firm of Faringer
[9:53] McCarti Gray. I was here months ago for
Fox Plan. Um, that's getting geared up.
[10:01] Hopefully going to be under construction
sooner than later. This is a slightly
[10:04] different uh type of project, but I
believe it's just as simple to be honest
[10:10] with you. Um, as Mr. Wen had mentioned,
uh there's a proposed tattoo studio
[10:16] studios called uh Bodyworks Tattoo
Studio. He currently exists. Don
[10:20] McDonald is the is the owner. He
currently has his business in Pin Hills.
[10:25] He has been desperately wanting to get
to Monroeville or Plum. You guys won
[10:30] because you have the property in the
correct zoning. Plum doesn't. So, um,
[10:35] Plum's in the process of changing their
code for that reason. They they need
[10:39] more businesses. You guys have your
stuff together. So, that was very
[10:42] refreshing. Um, so I'll start here with
with the map. I don't know if you guys
[10:47] could can see that. It's not as pretty
as what Mr. Wman had there. It doesn't
[10:52] show up quite as nice, but this is a
2.13 acre piece of property. Uh to the
[10:58] the the south and east, we've got Mr.
Water Heater for reference. Um we have
[11:03] Dexter Drive as well. That's uh that
that Mr. Water Heater is located off of.
[11:08] To the north of our property, we have
Old Frankstown Road, which is the road
[11:12] that we're actually going to be
accessing the property from. Uh, this
[11:16] is, I believe, the former Verizon
building. I I say former Is it still
[11:21] Verizon? Still there. Okay, they're
still there. I know they have trucks
[11:24] there. I don't know if they're still
occupying the building. That's why I
[11:26] meant that. But, um, and then there is
actually a creek that, uh, transverses
[11:31] uh, basically south to north, north to
south. Um, and it crosses underneath Old
[11:36] Frankstown Road. There is a piece of
property that's owned by a separate
[11:41] entity. Um, the Martins, who actually
know Zach Martin pretty well. Um,
[11:47] they're contractors and we've reached
out to them and let them know about
[11:51] this. They're probably going to try to
bid on this project because they're
[11:53] literally right next door. But to access
their property, there is a little bit of
[11:57] public rightway that does actually jut
in um to the west of our property. Uh,
[12:03] and I say northsoutheast west uh on this
Alageney County GIS. north is is up. Uh
[12:09] so there is a there is a piece of of uh
land here that that the the Martins
[12:14] utilize to get to Old Frankstown Road
along our southern I'm sorry our uh
[12:19] westerly side. So um that's the site
itself. Again, 2.13 acres. It's zoned
[12:24] M1. We're here for conditional use
approval as well as land development.
[12:31] Okay. So I'll cut to the chase.
>> [clears throat]
[12:37] » Um, see you guys can see this. Um, okay.
Proposed. Again, we have old Frankstown
[12:45] Road that's off basically north in this
situation is where Frankstown Road is.
[12:50] North actually works that way. Um, so
this this image is a little bit skewed
[12:56] from what I just shared with you, but
Mr. Water Heater is actually planned
[13:01] south on this image. So, you can see
where it's it's actually pretty tight.
[13:05] um 2.13 acres. We're disturbing under an
acre, so there isn't a lot of
[13:10] disturbance. It's a pretty small
building. It's it's proposed to be 4,400
[13:14] square ft. Uh singlestory.
Um one primary point of access, which
[13:20] would actually be on the easterly side
of the building. Um
[13:25] front of the building actually is just
going to have some doors and windows and
[13:29] um front along the parking lot itself.
Uh it's a pretty simple design. And
[13:34] again, we have to have at least one ADA
parking space. It's located here. Again,
[13:38] the the main entrance is located on this
side of the building. I'll show you some
[13:42] elevations here in just a moment, but um
simple parking lot with parking in it as
[13:48] well as underneath it. It's our storm
water management facility. Again, not
[13:51] real large because there isn't a lot of
development.
[13:54] Um we do have paved area here. The area
to the rear is a is proposed to be a
[14:00] stone area. uh it's a depression to grab
as much of the water shed that's falling
[14:04] down toward the building existing as
well as proposed. So the client
[14:08] requested sort of like a rock garden
type scenario in that location as
[14:12] opposed to pushing plant material up
against the building. Trash location is
[14:17] over here on the opposite side from the
from the entrance on the opposite side
[14:20] of the building. um sanitary flows
basically from this corner of the
[14:25] building down over the hill actually
crosses through that ingress egress
[14:30] point for the adjoining Martin property
utilities basically are all coming from
[14:36] plum the burrow line is essentially down
the middle of old Frankstown road so on
[14:42] the opposite side of the road is plum
burrow so water gas electric
[14:48] » [clears throat]
>> um and even the sanitary is actually
[14:50] flowing into plum So, we're
communicating with both the the local
[14:54] municipal authority as well as Columbus
Plums Municipal Authority in the
[14:56] situation and they've been they've been
coordinating together along with us.
[15:00] There's a lot of emails back and forth.
Um, pretty simple. Let me let me jump
[15:06] quickly here and then we can take some
questions.
[15:09] AE Works is the architect of record for
this. Again, pretty simple design.
[15:14] Basically, two materials. It's a It's an
asphalt shingle roof, but we're looking
[15:19] at a split face concrete block um facade
for about six feet and then the
[15:25] remaining four feet uh to the to the
bottom of the roof line. Again, this is
[15:31] the long this is the long side here. The
upper image is the ones actually facing
[15:35] the parking spaces. We've got a few
windows in there. Um, but the upper
[15:40] vertical piece there is actually
aluminum siding um or some sort of a
[15:44] metal cladding. But again, pretty clean,
simple. Colors haven't been decided yet.
[15:49] The image I received was actually black
and white, so it's all I could print out
[15:52] for you. I don't know what the colors
are quite yet, if there's going to be
[15:56] anything. I know the block originally
was intended to be like a a darker gray,
[16:00] but I don't know about the metal
cladding. Um, this image right here is
[16:06] actually the front entrance. So you can
see there's two larger windows. Just
[16:09] inside this doorway is actually the
waiting area. So the owner wanted to
[16:14] have as much sunlight in there as
possible.
[16:17] There's a lot one of the reasons why the
windows are up higher and there aren't a
[16:22] lot of windows is because the interior
space is pretty much for tattoo purposes
[16:28] and so privacy. He he doesn't really
want to have a lot of windows where
[16:32] people can see. I know there's other
ways to handle that with film. he's
[16:37] comfortable with and he says his
clientele is more comfortable with
[16:40] actually having fewer windows and um
privacy within the the facility as well
[16:45] as outside.
Maximum height at the peak is only
[16:50] proposed to be 19 ft. So again, pretty
small building, low impact visually on
[16:56] the site itself, roughly 110 ft by 40
feet. So again, not a real large
[17:01] building itself. 4,400 square ft.
That's what I have. Anyone have any
[17:08] questions for me? H
>> how many artists will be working in the
[17:12] facility?
>> So Don actually is the primary artist,
[17:15] but he has anywhere from two to three
artists that can be working at the same
[17:19] time as him. So it's a pretty simple,
smaller business. um he does a lot of um
[17:27] artistry um on his own by himself when
there aren't a lot of people there. So
[17:33] again, I think it's pretty much a low
impact site development. Um he doesn't
[17:37] need a lot of space in order to um take
care of his clientele.
[17:44] » Good.
>> He has a growing business, so it's this
[17:46] is a little bit larger footprint than
what he currently has. He's very excited
[17:50] to be here. He really loves this site.
So on the back side of the site is a is
[17:55] a um
sorry I'm jumping around going back to
[18:00] this one. This is a valley in here. Lots
of trees and wetlands. And so you know
[18:05] again it he's kind of pushed his
building in well we've kind of pushed
[18:08] his building in the middle of the site
and be by doing that it's he's a little
[18:12] bit more surrounded by nature.
>> He he didn't want to be tight up against
[18:16] the road.
>> Yeah. Nice.
[18:21] Is is he going to be doing any body
piercing or is this tattoos on?
[18:27] » I can't say he's never going to be doing
any body piercing, but
[18:31] » it's it's all permitted under the
>> Right.
[18:33] » Yeah.
>> But as of right now, it's tattoo
[18:38] and he apologized for not being able to
be here. His night off is Monday and
[18:41] I'll be honest with you, he asked if we
could move this meeting to Monday and
[18:44] I'm like, "Oh, Don, it doesn't work that
way." [laughter]
[18:48] He's really nice. He's a really nice
guy. So, [clears throat]
[18:51] yeah, he he apologized. Wednesday nights
are his big night for him being there
[18:56] alone with clientele.
>> So, he apologized.
[19:03] » Any other questions?
>> No. Motion to approve.
[19:08] » Motion.
>> I will second.
[19:10] » All in favor?
>> I.
[19:12] » Is that Is that for both the site plan
and the
[19:14] » both? Yes. Sorry. Motion to approve. Do
I need to say the numbers?
[19:19] » Uh 264 ST and 266 C.
>> Yes.
[19:25] » Do you need a new motion?
>> Nope.
[19:27] » Okay. Okay.
>> Good.
[19:29] » Very good.
>> Thank you folks.
[19:31] » Thank you. Yep.
>> And same thing, you'll be on council's
[19:35] agenda first and second Tuesday of
September.
[19:42] » All right.
[19:46] motion.
>> That concludes it. Can I get a motion to
[19:50] » I'll make a motion.
>> I second.
[19:52] » Very good.
>> All in favor?
[19:54] » I
>> meeting a journey.