Planning commission tables West Shore cart‑storage plan after concerns about buffer, drainage and parking

Grocery Hill Township planners and neighbors asked for more detail and revisions before approving West Shore Golf and Country Club’s proposed cart‑storage building, and the Planning Commission voted to table the application pending those changes.

Planner Brian Bridal summarized the item as a site‑plan review for West Shore Golf and Country Club at 22893 West River Road, asking the commission to consider a new building, parking reconfiguration and several waivers from landscape standards. “The ordinance requires what’s called a buffer zone B,” Bridal said, describing a 20‑foot planting strip that the club’s proposal would partially encroach upon.

The applicant, architect Robert Howie, and club representative Mario Ferrante described the project as a replacement for an existing open‑air cart storage area and said the design would match the clubhouse’s materials. Howie said the club “does not want to disturb… those existing trees on the northwest corner of the site,” and Ferrante said the chosen location “was the number one reason” because of site logistics and play‑flow around the first hole.

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