Planning staff asks to correct two zoning map errors; Achieve Credit Union seeks drive‑through at Levitt Road site

City planning staff asked the Planning Commission on April 2 to forward two zoning corrections to Lorain City Council and presented a conditional‑use request for a drive‑through at a proposed credit union branch on Levitt Road.

Planning technician Michael Buser (title listed in the meeting as “Mister Buser,” planning staff) told the commission the first request, ZCA01‑2025, would reclassify permanent parcel 0500001000299 from a planned unit development (PUD) back to a B‑1 neighborhood commercial district. He said the parcel was rezoned to B‑1 in a 2017 ordinance but appears to have been included in the PUD on the 2021 zoning map “in error.” Buser asked the commission to review and recommend that City Council restore the B‑1 classification in accordance with the 2017 ordinance. There was no public comment on the item at the hearing.

Buser said a second map correction, ZCA02‑2025, would change 1510 Cooper Foster Park Road from R‑1A low‑density residential back to B‑2 general commercial. He told the commission that the property is the only R‑1A parcel on that block, while surrounding parcels are already zoned B‑2, and that a 2017 ordinance moved the parcel to B‑2 before the 2021 map adoption apparently reversed it.

At the same public hearing the commission received CUP02‑2025, a conditional‑use application for a drive‑through at 4207 Levitt Road. Jeff Klomp of K4 Architecture presented the proposal; Brett Fisher, identified in the record as Brett Fisher, chief executive officer of Achieve Credit Union, also spoke for the applicant. Fisher said of the proposed branch, “drive‑through is a must for us.”

Planning and zoning administrator Miss Atkinson told the commission the project’s stacking — the number of vehicles the drive‑through can hold in queue — meets the site’s standards and that the development plan and commission review would still be required at the final site‑plan stage. She also told the commission that the proposed curb‑cut and driveway spacing do not comply with the city’s driveway‑spacing standards; Atkinson said the applicant will ask the Zoning Board of Appeals for a driveway‑spacing variance later the same day (agenda item PA09‑2025).

None of the three items was decided by the Planning Commission on April 2; the two map corrections were presented for the commission’s review and recommendation to City Council, and the conditional‑use permit will proceed through final plan review and the Zoning Board of Appeals for related access variances.

The record at the hearing cites the 2017 ordinance that previously changed the two parcels to commercial zoning and references Chapter 1143.07(D) of the city code in relation to conditional uses for drive‑throughs in the B‑1 district.

The Planning Commission hearing closed with no public testimony on these items; each will move forward through the city’s formal review steps, including final development plan review and council action where noted.