Planning commission approves conditional use permit for small medical practice at 8667 Tyler Boulevard

The Mentor Planning Commission on Jan. 16 approved a conditional use permit allowing Maple Health Direct Primary Care to operate a medical facility at 8667 Tyler Boulevard and expand into a larger clinic space.

The move would let the practice add exam rooms and clinicians to meet demand. The commission approved the permit with three conditions recommended by city administration.

Doctor Richard Berry, the applicant and founder of Maple Health Direct Primary Care, told the commission his practice provides a full range of family medicine and has “experienced remarkable growth” since opening in September 2022. Berry said the current location on Center Street is about 1,600 square feet and the Tyler Boulevard site would provide additional exam rooms and office space for a third clinician in March and eventually a fourth clinician.

City planning staff presented three conditions for approval; no members of the public spoke for or against the application during the hearing. After brief questions from commissioners, a motion to approve the conditional use permit with the three conditions passed on a roll-call vote: Commissioners Crocker, Hadden, Perkovich, Bozzetti, Teedeman, Varga and Cook voted yes.

The approval allows Maple Health to proceed to the permitting and site-review steps required by the city. The administrative conditions attached to the permit were not read into the record in full during the hearing; the city planner noted them as standard conditions tied to site development and code compliance.

Commission business continued after the vote; the hearing record shows no written objections submitted to the commission for this item.