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Mentor planning commission tables irregular lot-split proposal after concerns about 5-acre zoning and narrow residual parcel
Summary
An applicant seeking to split a long-held, irregular 22-acre parcel into a roughly 16-acre lot and a 5-acre residual in the C-1 Conservation district was asked to seek alternatives and the commission voted to table the request for further review.
The Mentor Planning Commission on Feb. 27 tabled a request by an owner to split a roughly 22-acre, irregularly shaped parcel on Rivers Edge Drive after staff and commissioners raised concerns about a narrow residual lot and the property’s C‑1 Conservation zoning requirements.
Applicant Anthony Sliman of Willoughby Hills, who said his family has owned the property for about 50 years, told the commission he had a buyer interested in most of the tract and that the proposed split would leave a roughly five‑acre parcel that meets the zoning minimum. "We were looking to split a lot so we could sell, I think it was 16 or so acres of the 22," Sliman said, spelling his name for the record.
Kathy, representing the city administration, told the commission…
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