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Neighbors oppose plan to raze vacant home for employee parking at 1990 Parkgate

2258117 · February 11, 2025
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Summary

DRK Partners, which owns the office used by Akron Oral Surgeons, asked the Planning Committee to allow a 17-space employee-parking expansion at 1990 Parkgate that would require demolition of a vacant single-family house.

DRK Partners, the real-estate entity for Akron Oral Surgeons, asked the Planning Committee to allow an expansion of its White Pond Drive office parking lot onto two adjacent parcels at 1990 Parkgate, a residential lot that currently contains a vacant single-family house.

Planning staff told the committee the demolition and conversion of the lot to 17 asphalt parking spaces would be “contrary to sound planning principles” and recommended disapproval, while the Planning Commission recommended approval. Planning staff also noted the 2018 conditional-use approval for the medical office on White Pond Drive did not include the two Parkgate…

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